As he promotes his latest film, “Skirmishers”, in theaters this Wednesday, January 4, Omar Sy is caught up in a nasty controversy over the war in Ukraine. This Monday, January 2, he is criticized for his remarks about the French “less concerned by the wars in Africa”. Except the actor didn’t say so. That’s what the Parisian clarifies, this January 3 in its columns.
“Oh guys? I’ve been seeing this since I was little“
Journalists who met the movie star on December 13 say they first talked about the film, then “war in general“, with him. They specifically asked him if “the situation in the world today, with what is happening in Ukraine, did not discourage him” and Omar Sy to reply that the war in Ukraine had not been “a crazy revelation for him“.
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And for good reason, Omar Sy has seen many others before the one that frees Vladimir Poutine to his neighbor. During the interview with the Parisianhe considered:A war is humanity sinking, even when it’s on the other side of the world. We remember that man is capable of invading, of attacking civilians, children. We have the impression that we have to wait for Ukraine to realize this. Ah, friends? I’ve seen this since I was little. When it’s far away, we say to ourselves that over there, they are savages, we don’t do that anymore. Like the Covid, at the beginning, we said: it’s only the Chinese”.
“When it’s in Africa, are you less affected?”
The journalists assure that they have not seen “no polemical tone in his answer”, and specify that Omar Sy has never suggested that we talk too much about Ukraine. About “When it’s in Africa, are you less affected?”here again the Parisian ensures that this sentence which set fire to the powder was misunderstood. The you designates neither France nor the French, but the interlocutor who debates with Omar Sy during the interview.
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