![]() On the other hand, if you chose it, and because you chose it, it’s supposed to make you happy because you had the choice. Sy: Embracing work because you have no choice. There’s that idea of embracing your work, being happy in it. ![]() This balance shows how society is divided and complicated in our relationship to our work. And Charlotte’s character Alice has a different type of work and gets sick working. The movie brings the question for me of, “Where are we putting the work in our lives? How important is it to work?” The opposite thing with the character of Samba is that he’s ready to do anything in terms of working, including the tough labor. ![]() When I was younger, I used to do things like the sort of labor Samba does. Omar Sy: Because of my own experience from my parents and some of my friends and some of my family working in manual labor, I took from that. What did you bring to this movie personally in terms of your attitude towards work? There’ so much in the film about the nature of work, between working-class immigrants like Samba and Alice and her executive-level burn out. It’s an engaging, entertaining, often funny and moving French film about a positive-thinking, hopeful Senegalese illegal immigrant living in Paris, whose efforts to avoid deportation bring him together with a lonely, burnt-out former corporate lawyer named Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg).Īnother writer and I sat down with Sy in Chicago last week to talk about Samba. Sy (pronounced “see”), who first gained fame in France as an TV improv comedian, has also re-teamed this summer with his Intouchables co-writers-directors, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, to play the title role in Samba. ![]() In just a few years, Omar Sy, a French-born actor of Senegalese descent, has starred in the biggest French film of all time, The Intouchables, won a Best Actor César Award for the role, co-starred in last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past (as Bishop), and is appearing in what is now the third-biggest (and still climbing) film of all time: Jurassic World (as Barry, the raptor trainer). ![]()
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