this famous French actor declined a role in the film

Second part of the saga Fantastic Beasts – imagined by JK Rowling and whose action takes place before the adventures ofHarry Potter -, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is broadcast this evening in prime time on TF1. In the cast, we find Eddie Redmayne in the skin of Norbert Scamander, Jude Law in that of Albus Dumbledore but also Johnny Depp, who plays Gellert Grindelwald.

In the credits of this feature film directed by David Yates, spectators almost found a certain… Omar Sy. The Frenchman, who has lived in Los Angeles for several years, revealed that he had been approached for a role in the film. But the actorUntouchables had preferred to decline. “The role that was in it was repetitive. It’s something I’ve already played,” he confided in the show Au tableau!, in 2017 on C8. Then to further clarify the reasons for his refusal: “Because I don’t want to arrive on set and be jaded. That is to say to be there as if it were normal. It’s extraordinary to be on a film set and I want to keep this wonder when I’m there. If I start doing the stuff I’ve already done, it’s not going to be great. »

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Paris as a setting

We do not know what role Omar Sy would have taken on in this sequel to Fantastic animals, whose action takes place partly in France, in Paris. Why did you choose the French capital as the setting for this new intrigue? “In the first opus, we are in America, where the wizarding world seems quite closed. For this new chapter, I was looking to evolve in a universe where there would be a more direct relationship between magic and everyday life. And in the 1920s, it must have been Paris,” explained author JK Rowling, according to comments reported by Allocinated. The Briton also confided that she had lived in Paris herself and felt “a strong proximity to this city”.