So far so good on Netflix: How did the actor who plays the villainous Oumar fare?

From April 7 on Netflix, Nauel Madan follows Farah, a young journalist whose life is thrown into chaos when she helps her brother escape from the police. Without knowing it, he puts his family in danger from a drug lord. It is the actor and model Jebril Zonga who portrays this famous Oumar on the screen. A charming looking man who works with the poorest of the poor, but who hides some violence.

We could see the aspiring actor in Les Misérables by Ladj Ly, where he plays one of the members of the BAC, and even in Xavier Dolan’s latest series, The Night Laurie Gaudreau Woke Up, it’s time for some scenes. But if Jibril Zonga He was able to play this antagonistic role thanks to his life partner who is none other than Navel Madan himself.

During the series Mania festival with our microphone partners and arguments, the two lovers returned to cooperation:

“He didn’t want to play in it,” the comedian told us. “He told me, ‘I did one series, I’m not doing two.’ Then people will lock me there.” He received it two weeks before the shooting. I saw all of Paris, my character changed. He pissed me off to no end. Also, he would wander into the offices and tell me when we were writing the scenes that it was disgusting and that we couldn’t believe it. And he said, “I would do that.” And he was actually polishing his character“.

“I said no, simply because we are also a series producer,” Zonga explains. “And Nowell had a lot of hats. I didn’t want to mix things up and get left behind. I played a villain in a series. Especially since we don’t have enough time to develop characters in 30-minute episodes.“.

The two partners have already given their response in It’s all for me in 2016, directed by Madani. Her husband looked great there (briefly).