We could confuse them. Or almost. Ahmed Sylla and Bertrand Usclat share the poster of Twins but not too many, comedy by Olivier Ducray and Wilfred Meance. They embody two brothers separated at birth who find themselves 33 years later. “I specify that the fact that it can be born at the same time a black twin and a white twin is very rare but possible”, confides Ahmed Sylla to 20 minutes.
The comedian of The Ascension and series creator grazes are happily complementary as brothers go from hostility to complicity as they try to find their biological parents to explain how they were adopted. “Our characters have prejudices about each other, but are united by the same quest: to know where they come from”, insists Ahmed Sylla.
Accomplices as it should be
He plays a guy in debt who gets hired as a driver for his stuck politician brother, in the middle of the election campaign. Their relationship quickly becomes explosive while Gérard Jugnot, Pauline Clément, Isabelle Gélinas and Nicolas Marié compete in fantasy to give them the answer. “We avoid all the caricatures of black against white and that’s what made me hooked on the script, specifies Ahmed Sylla. On a puzzling pitch, the screenwriters swept away the clichés to talk about fraternity and adoption. The first part of the film is centered on the gags but the second takes on a more tender tone around the duo who will have a huge surprise when they discover the secret of their origins.
“We didn’t know each other before the film,” says Ahmed Sylla. Bertrand and I wanted to carry each other without trying to pull the blanket. This generosity can be seen in Twins but not too many who takes the public off guard with his sincerity. “I like to be surprised and touched when I read a script,” explains Ahmed Sylla.
Ahmed Sylla surprising
The actor will also amaze and move in his next projects very different from each other. He plays a footballer in Classico by Nathanaël Guedj and Adrien Piquet Gauthier, available soon on Amazon Prime Video. He strikes a more serious tone to A little brother by Léonore Serraille, the story of an immigrant family, discovered in Cannes this year.