Oscars “too white” for Omar Sy and Zem, the boycott is “legitimate” – Le Parisien

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figcaption "articleChapeau"> The actor director Zem (g) and the actor Omar Sy pose January 15, 2016 near Lille to present the film “Chocolat” (AFP / FRANCOIS_LO_PRESTI)

The French filmmaker Zem, who just completed ” Chocolate “on the history of the first black clown in France, and the actor Omar Sy felt that the boycott of the Oscars by artists to protest against the lack of black players was” the right way “and “was legitimate”.

The controversy is “a boost in the right direction, in the desire to redress the balance” as the “film about the clown course Chocolate”, told AFP Wednesday Omar Sy, awarded in 2012 by the César Award for Best Actor for his role in “untouchables”.
“This boycott of the Americans I find legitimate, as well as the boycott of designers in Angoulême because there were no women in the competition, “said his side actor and director of Moroccan origin Zem, referring to the outcry in France by the absence of women among the nominees for the Grand Prize of the Festival of Comics of Angoulême.
“Whenever a community, a minority will be excluded for a reason that is hard to explain for the same work and the same talent, and even more talent, it will boycott, they are right, “said Zem, stressing that” it must be manifested when one feels excluded. ” “This kind of fight that we must carry out, because it calls”.
“I think that in France, we are a little more attention to that,” he however said, Recalling that Caesar, “Sissako’s film + + Timbuktu and Abdellatif Kechiche movies were rewarded.” “But I grants are not important enough to be interested in some form of equilibrium that there could have or not have,” he added.
The film ” Chocolate, “which will be released in France on February 3, said the clown of fate Chocolate, the first black artist of the French scene. Former freed slave arrived from Cuba, was a huge success in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, forming a duo clown with circus artist George Foottit before falling into oblivion.
For the second consecutive year, the lack of black actors or actresses in the 20 finalists for the Oscars is controversial in the United States.
director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, wife of Will Smith, said they would boycott the awards ceremony on February 28.

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Oscars “too white “for Omar Sy and Zem, the boycott is” legitimate “

The French filmmaker Zem, who just completed” Chocolat “about the history of the first black clown in France, and actor Omar Sy felt that the boycott of the Oscars by artists to protest against …

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