“People who can read understand what I meant.” The actor Omar Sy returned this Tuesday night to our classmates Diary in the interview he gave to Parisian The last weekend.
In the newspaper columns, the actor who is the poster this Wednesday of skirmishers He had been questioned in particular about the war in Ukraine and later mentioned the conflicts that have hit and are hitting the African continent as well. “It has never stopped since World War II. I am surprised that people are so affected. Does that mean that when it is in Africa it affects you less?” Omar Sy told the newspaper.
Words that made several political figures react and about which the actor was questioned on the set of Yann Barthès.
“It’s not what I say that we attack, it’s me”
“There is a system and every time I come out of hiding with my beard, people come and argue with me about what I said so that I can explain myself. I don’t want to, I don’t want to,” Omar Sy said initially on TMC. “What I said, I said. Let whoever wants to understand and if they want to understand something else, let them understand something else.”
Omar Sy regrets that this story “creates a cloud of smoke around the promotion of this film” which “speaks well of France and the war.”
“It’s not what I’m saying that we’re attacking, it’s me. It’s not a problem: too late guys,” the actor added with a smile.
“What I refuse to do is justify myself”
Omar Sy was also questioned about his statements about the French Patrol flight over the Croisette to promote the movie Top Gun Maverick. A show that took place during the Cannes festival in which Tirailleurs was also presented. “I have a thought for the skirmishers. That they deserve, much more than Tom Cruise, the French Patrol”, declared the actor in the Parisian.
“I am not going to explain myself about this, what I am saying is quite clear. […] I am not going to enter the system to explain what I said”, he reacts this Tuesday in Diario.
“What I refuse to do is justify myself, I don’t owe anyone anything, I’m French,” concludes the actor.
Source: BFM TV
