Omar Sy tackles a journalist after an inappropriate question: Current Woman The MAG


Like Shy'm, footballer Nicolas Anelka, or Issa Doumbia, Omar Sy grew up in Trappes in the Yvelines. The actor spent his youth there with his friend Karim, Jamel Debbouze's brother, which also served as a gateway to the media world. "I was very good friends with his little brother, Karim, often in the same class as me. Jamel, who was starting to make himself known and coming back to see his family, noticed that I made the whole gang laugh ", he confided to Telerama. After performing his first sketches on Radio Nova, Omar Sy caught the eye of the chain's boss and continued his ascent. "I followed Jamel on Canal + and, of course, it took up so much space in my life that I failed my baccalaureate. Despite the oral draft", he also admitted. But Omar Sy today has no regrets : at 42, he is one of the most popular French comedians in Hollywood.

The father who lives today with his wife Hélène Sy and their five children put its notoriety at the service of the Black lives matter movement after the murder of George Floyd in the United States. In a petition posted online in June 2020, the star called for "calling into question a system that cannot claim justice without ending the organized impunity that has raged for decades."

Omar Sy reframes a journalist

Although very committed, Omar Sy has not lived in France for a long time and no longer feels legitimate to broach this sensitive subject. He was therefore very annoyed by the question of a journalist, who asked him during an interview for the magazine Technikart how the situation had evolved in Trappes since his departure at 16. "I have no idea: I no longer live in Trappes and I am not 16 anymore. That's two good reasons for not answering this question ", he explained before giving advice to his interlocutor: "What would be interesting would be to go find him, this Omar Sy of today, and go ask him the question. Today, we make assumptions, we try to interpret … My opinion on this is not fundamentally interesting. "

Read also : Omar Sy racist? His video which divides the Web …