Omar Sy
IN JANUARY, WHEN NETFLIX LAUNCHED ITS wildly popular French TV series Lupin, Omar Sy went into the Metro station under the Louvre in Paris. In the show, Sy plays a thief who takes a job as a night cleaner at the museum in order to plot a spectacular heist under the noses of white curators who are barely aware of a Black janitor.
In the Metro, in real life, Sy began pasting a giant poster advertising the show on a billboard space on the platform. Incredibly, the commuters took no notice of one of France’s biggest movie stars. Sy even asked one person for assistance, yet still no one recognized him. Sy says the experience, about which he posted on his Instagram feed, was illuminating. “There is a
