Too popular.
Ahmed Sylla had to overcome this handicap to convince Léonor Serraille to hire him on
A Little Brother
.
“Nobody knows me, I walk in the quiet street”
, reassured the comedian and actor of 32 years.
It's wrong.
Ahmed Sylla is famous, and people think he's funny 24 hours a day. He did a sketch of it where he walks into a bakery to buy a baguette and is told to make people laugh.
In
A Little Brother
, in theaters February 1, Sylla drops the clown's mask.
Léonor Serraille's second film, after the formidable
Jeune femme
(caméra d'or at Cannes in 2017), is the delicate and bittersweet chronicle of an African family in France in the 1980s and 1990s. A mother and her two son.
Rose, Ernest and Jean.
Sylla had to prove himself in the casting.
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The story of
A Little Brother
resonates with that of his family.
“Rose reminds me of my mother, who arrived from Senegal in the 1980s. Like her, she was not a submissive woman, under the influence.
I am…
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