Omar Sy: his meteoric trajectory from Intouchables – BBC

PICTURES – The incredible success of the film by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano broadcast for the first time in clear last night on TF1 proves it again: the actor’s popularity rating is at its Zenith. But what are the projects that all directors snapped

This time, the question is no longer possible: the meteoric trajectory film Omar Sy is launched. With 13.5 million viewers on TF1 last night for the first in the clear untouchables , the actor proves if it was still necessary that his popularity rating was at its Zenith.

What a long way in five years! In 2009, just 34 years old, he received the ultimate accolade. The Academy of César awards him the best actor award for his role as Driss, a medical assistant iconoclastic and colorful in Intouchables by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. It is an event, it is rare that a comedy to be honored by a French jury. While receiving the coveted award, Omar Sy exults leaping for joy.

With his accomplice Fred Testot in the service of the Grand Journal de Canal + broadcasts, Omar Sy formed seven years comparable duo what were Poiret and Serrault in the 60s By hilarious, every night, the audience of the encrypted channel, future césarisé prepares its defenses. The actor learns to compose his character, day after day, like in the good old days of cabaret.

His experience is not limited to television. Of course, he already got small roles – noticed – in Die Too, Le Boulet, Safari … but the daily dramas are irreplaceable exercises. It must however wait until 2009 and Intouchables phenomenon. It is the triumph, nearly 20 million people are rushing in theaters. Better than The Great Mop with Louis de Funes and Bourvil, but a little less than Meet the Cht’is Dany Boon. Anyway, the French have always preferred Poulidor to Anquetil.

For five years, Omar Sy saw a childhood dream. The child of Trappes is dubbed by Hollywood. In 2014, Bryan Singer is its presence in X-Men: Days of Future Past . Next year, the comical “operator” of the service will be on view Untitled John Wells Project and Jurassic World . The Los Angeles hill holds out his arms.