Why doesn’t Omar Sy do comedy anymore? “I would love to come back, but…”

Back in Lupine on Netflix, the actor explains to us why he abandoned French comedies and how he is looking for himself today as an action star…

He has taken over Netflix subscribers for a week.

Lupine is back with a season 4, already at the top of the platform’s world rankings, largely thanks to the charisma of Omar Sy, truculent Assane Diop, never short of stratagems to fool the police and his enemies…

Less showy and more nuanced, the former after-sales service troublemaker on Canal + shows is now an action hero. After the Jurassic World saga, after The Killer by John Woo (2024) or even Shadow Force by Joe Carnahan (2025), Omar Sy is less and less a French comedy actor. Besides, it’s been years since he really tried to make us laugh. There was indeed a little light break with French Lover, a rom’com in reverse Notting Hill mode released last year on Netflix. But for a while now, the former half of Omar and Fred seems to have abandoned the genre.

“I haven’t done any because I haven’t been offered a worthy comedy for a long time,” Omar Sy admits to Première…..