“It’s an inverted Notting Hill!” Omar Sy tells French Lover

A French romantic comedy where he made his “Julia Roberts”. To see on Netflix right now.

Installed between Paris and Los Angeles, currently in full physical preparation for his next Hollywood mercenary role in Extraction (the new series of Russo brothers), Omar Sy completely changes a register with French LoverRomantic comedy released last Friday on Netflix.

He embodies Abel Camara, a famous and disillusioned actor, who falls in love with a lost waitress (interpreted by Sara Giraudeau), in the middle of a divorce and who makes fun of his notoriety.

The film, written and developed by Omar Sy himself with Nina Rives, who signs his first achievement there, was the perfect opportunity for the actor untouchables to try the genre, as he tells Variety:

“It was the ideal place for me to try to make a romantic comedy, because I trust Nina. She also knows my modesty. The final scenario was thought of according to what I could do or not.” The film contains some romantic, even sensual, but filmed sequences without intimacy coordinator: “We were offered, because it is compulsory now. But for Sara as for me, it was not necessary. It was also a question of confidence.”

Impossible, of course, not to think of Love at first sight in Notting Hill When we look at this love story between a star and a stranger. And the actor of French Lover Do not hide it, quite the contrary:

“We had a lot of American and British references in mind, but it is especially Nina who could talk about it. In any case, we wanted to stay close to what we like in this genre. We assume the slightly retro side. The film closest to French Loverit would be a Notting Hill reverse. My character is Julia Roberts a bit! Abel Camara is undoubtedly a little more endearing and friendly than Anna Scott, but he keeps a shadow. And it was important to assume it and integrate it into the film. “

There will be the question that all the spectators of the film will ask themselves: Abel Camara is very inspired by the real Omar Sy? “I am not the best placed to answer. It would rather be my loved ones, my friends or my colleagues to say it. I cannot say it …” The actor is discarded.

French Lover is to be seen now on Netflix.