Omar Sy’s life changed in 2011 with the release ofUntouchablesa film by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano with 19.5 million admissions. The role of Driss allowed him to win the César for best actor in 2012. His career took on a whole new dimension and living in France with such notoriety had become too complex for the new darling of French cinema. This is why the year of his César he chose to leave France and settle in Los Angeles with his wife Hélène.
Having become an international star, Omar Sy is not always comfortable when it comes to talking about himself. Contacted several times to write his autobiography, the star of Lupin always refused until he was approached by Elsa Vigoureux, a senior reporter for New Obs. Author of several works, the journalist managed to convince Omar Sy to trust her and this is how was born Come on, let’s talkthe transcription of two years of exchanges. The work, composed of several notebooks, was published last April by Albin Michel and although the work was not a resounding success, it nevertheless contains many personal confidences. In these pages, the reader discovers a little more about what Omar Sy’s life is like, particularly when he is at home in Los Angeles.
In section 5 of the book, Elsa Vigoureux is in California, with the actor. While the journalist wishes to discuss delicate subjects with him like “taxes, excess, women, love“, the actor leads her into a personal room in his house “wide, bright“worthy of a wealthy American family: his office. And it is then that we discover that this den contains many treasures.”The room is in the hallway, on the left. It feels like a small living museum, you look everywhere without daring to touch anything“, writes Elsa Vigoureux.
Cinema but not only in Omar Sy’s office in his house in Los Angeles
Several objects trace the cinematographic journey of Omar Sy: “Behind Omar Sy’s work table, there is the ‘Nemo’ armchair from the series Lupinlarge, wide and black, which represents a mask in the shape of a face. On the black shelves, the books of Maurice Leblanc, the inventor of‘Arsène Lupinestand up straight. Doctor Knock’s golden plaque sits high up, against a wall, in a sort of snub to reality. Bakary’s knife is placed discreetly on a ledge, like a worn remains and soon acquired by rust a fictional memory, as much as a real piece of history.“
Other objects are not linked to the 7th art but to other passions of Omar Sy such as sport and football. “In the back of the office two football jerseys hang under glass on the black brick wall, above the bar: that of Pelé, signed by his hand, and that of the French team flanked by two starswith the France-Croatia match ticket attached under the window“, we can read in Come on, let’s talk.
But it is impossible for Omar Sy, married since 1998 to his wife Hélène (they had a breakup at the start of their story) and father of 5 children, not to have his base with him in his office. “On the edges, everywhere around, there are black and white photos of Hélène and the children. Six glass Coke bottles are arranged in a row on the mantelpiece, all personalized with the names of family members, in this order: Omar, Selly, Sabah, Tidiane, Alijah, Hélène.writes Elsa Vigoureux before adding Omar Sy’s comment: “Amani is missing, it happens.”
The description of the place ends with the “centerpiece, placed high, the reward, the Caesar“. “Omar takes it in his hands, blows on it, ‘I have to clean it.‘”
