Omar Sy: Lupin's global success is "beyond me"

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The French actor is familiar with his Netflix series' global success because he's called Los Angeles home for the past eight years. “Clearly we do things hoping they’ll work, but this level of response is totally beyond me," he says. "We said we didn’t want to be red in the face in front of American or English series. It was us little French guys trying to be in the same court, but to have a result that is so enormous was totally unexpected...In cinema, in series, when we tell stories the idea is to touch everyone at the same spot and when I see the experience of things that I’ve done that speak to the world, it always meets in the same place; everyone is touched or amazed by the same things. It’s great to see in Brazil or in France they loved Lupin for the same reason. There’s something universal and that’s something I always try to achieve.” ALSO: Sy recalls filming Lupin before and during the pandemic.