Omar Sy: “Excessive individualism in France leads to the rise of the far right”

French actor Omar Sy, the protagonist of the novel successful The Netflix series “Lupin,” which recently served as a member of the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, suggested that France must rebuild a sense of collectivity if it wants to confront the far right.

When promoting a new book about his character, “Viens, on se parle” written with Elsa Viguero, Sy pointed out that the concepts of justice, equality and brotherhood had been changed. WeakenedAnd that it was difficult to be a person of color in France.

The 46-year-old actor, who grew up in… suburb From Paris with her parents, who come from Senegal and Mauritania, she referred to the controversy surrounding the possibility of Aya Nakamura, the most listened to French-Malian artist in the world, participating in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

“I find it unfortunate that we have reached this point in France. And it will still be that way in 2024.” debate About an artist like Aya Nakamura, whose career and great talent I pay tribute to…,” Sy stated in the French publication “Le Nouvel Obs.”

In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper on this subject, the actor added that Nakamura “triumphed in his life. He crossed his limits.” Social origin He finds himself in a situation where he is a victim of racism.

Omar Sy, who in 2012 became the first black French actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the comedy “Intouchables” ('The intangibleHe added that his “optimism is at stake,” and that he prefers to wait to find out “France's position in the next elections” in 2027, before “making any comment.”

“All I can say is that my optimism “It is being tested very severely now,” he said.

In the same interview published by Le Parisien, a reader asked Si if it was difficult to be a citizen A person of color In France, even for him, he is one of the most famous celebrities in the country.

When someone recalculates what happened to us in advance of what they needed, they answered: “For what it is, there are many things that are difficult to do in France. Because there is no data from where you are, the data is available, it is cursing. It will happen in the same moment at this time.” life”.

The actor now lives in Los Angeles, and many people associated with right-wing politics have used his residence Discredit himHe was accused of tax evasion.

“Those who call me a tax exile are the same far-right extremists who consider me ungrateful to France, the country in which Spit all day. “This is not my case,” he says.

The actor, whose performance in Lupine made the series one of the most successful French productions in the world, recently told the French TV program “Quotidien” that people should be warned about and against the rise of the far right in politics. Who is promoting an image?France pastSy noted that such ideas “have historically taken France to dark places.”

“We all have to ask ourselves how we want to be united, interact, and be part of a group,” he commented. “Nowadays everyone in the public space is talking about IndividuallyHe added: “Themselves and they forgot about the group.”

He stressed the need to highlight the concept of collectivism, and added: “They talk about themselves, about what hurts them, about what harms them. Bother, which scares them. They pretend to speak on behalf of the group, but they only talk about their own neuroses. We have to wake up. “I think we have to realize one thing: we have to create a group, not many small groups,” he concluded.

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