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Omar Sy on Playing a Sex Symbol in Netflix’s ‘French Lover,’ Why the Rom-Com Is Like a ‘Reverse “Notting Hill”’ and Producing His Projects to Avoid Being ‘Pigeonholed’ (EXCLUSIVE)

By Elskes Sep 26, 2025 | 10:54 AM

When French actor-producer Omar Sy started working on the Netflix romantic comedy “French Lover,” what scared him the most wasn’t playing a sex symbol or showing some skin for the first time. It was depicting the French showbiz world in a way that wouldn’t make it a caricature. In the Paris-set movie — which launched […]