Omar Sy Calls Out “Racism” Following Backlash In France Over War In Ukraine Comments
deadline.comLupin star Omar Sy has hit back at critics of comments he made about differing attitudes to the war in Ukraine and further afield conflicts, saying the attacks against him are simply an example of racism.
Sy, who is one of France’s most popular actors and the country’s most successful Black actor, has found himself in the eye of a media storm at home this week over an interview in Le Parisien newspaper on his new WWI drama Father and Soldier.
The drama, released in France by Gaumont on January 4 after world premiering in Cannes Un Certain Regard, follows a Senegalese man in his 40s who voluntarily accompanies his conscripted son to the frontline in Verdun in 1917.
Inspired by the true stories of 200,000 men drafted from French colonies to fight in the conflict from 1914 to 1918, the work has personal resonance for the actor, who was born and raised in France by parents of Mauritanian and Senegalese origins.
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