The latest installment of Dave Letterman's Netflix series, in which he interviews Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, is now streaming
Published Dec 12th, 2022 3:01PM ESTopens with a black-clad cello player in the middle of a bombed-out section of the city of Kharkiv, performing Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor. The damage around the musician is formidable, the crumbling walls and buildings a measure of both devastation and defiance — since Ukraine has held out, for almost a year now, against a bigger and much more powerful aggressor.
The cello player’s notes give way to air raid sirens and then to scenes of war, followed by footage of Russia’s Vladimir Putin declaring the onset of a “” against Ukraine, and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky then pronouncing that the country’s fate is in the hands of its army and its people. And, finally, there’s a somber-looking David Letterman, strolling wordlessly to a train. These days, he explains, there’s not an easy way to get to Ukraine.
“When I first saw this man defending his country against Putin and Russia,” Letterman says of Zelensky, in the latest episode of his Netflix interview show that’s now streaming, “I thought to myself, ‘I would really like to meet this guy.'” Letterman’s eventual sit-down — in a bunker 300 feet below an active subway platform — with the world leader chosen by Time magazine as its 2022 Person of the Year was something of a departure for the former late-night king. “I’ve never done anything quite like this,” said Letterman, who’s previously interviewed actors like Will Smith and George Clooney for“When we were planning this trip, I wasn’t sure what to expect,” he continues, in reference to the interview that was filmed in October.
Some ten months after hostilities began, the war grinds on. But life, as it always does, keeps finding a way. Letterman himself, even, at one point during his new Netflix special, is shown going back to his roots — performing in an underground comedy club in Ukraine. “I came from the United States to Ukraine to get away from all the violent gunplay,” he tells the crowd, to guffaws.
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