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me a lot. But it also made me more a French guy here who does bread for curry. It was a big birthday, and it seemed relaxed about working in the States.” restaurants, and he delivers to me some- important to dress for the occasion. Dress times. Same with cheese.” Sy delights in codes may be passé; dressing up, howev- It’s normal for an overseas actor who making Thieboudienne, the national dish er—for the people you are seeing as well has just scored a massive international hit of Senegal, one of his specialties in the as the occasion—feels more urgent as we to test the waters in Hollywood, though kitchen, and he’s also proud of his date celebrate coming together again. ambition wasn’t what moved the whole cake with caramel frosting and Blanquette family out. “I try to make a balance of de veau. Food is one way Sy reminds his For Mama’s birthday, I wanted to wear time between working and being at home increasingly American kids of their roots. something that would make her smile with my family,”Sy says. “We figured we’d “I have a double job,” he says. “France and feel fêted—something irreverent but do a big L.A. vacation year, put the kids needs to stay present in their lives, and easy. Both Marni’s Francesco Risso and in school somewhere and hang out. But Senegal too. Outside the house they’re Bottega’s Daniel Lee have proposed chic, it turned out it worked well for us. It was speaking English all the time, but back glammed-up versions of the comfort supposed to be a sabbatical year, and then home, the language we speak and the and ease we have adapted ourselves to we just stayed.” In Los Angeles, “fame food we make is where it comes back. I over the past 18 months, and with that was less heavy to bear for my kids,” he have a lot to do.” in mind I chose feather-trimmed Sleeper says. Before they decided to move, the Sys pajamas—because what better way to were living not far from Trappes, albeit in He has a lot to film, too. Sy returns emerge from life on my couch than in a more posh, pastoral situation. “We had to Jurassic World as the velociraptor an accessorized version of what I had a cool little life there, in a nice village, and trainer Barry Sembène next year. There been living in for a year?—and added then one day I went to pick up my son is an action comedy by Louis Leterrier, crystal-buckle-embellished Miu Miu from school and someone said, ‘Ah, it’s Lupin’s director, that wrapped in June, slides, dangly paste earrings, and an Omar’s son.’ That scared me.”Sy wanted even as Lupin has been renewed for a Olympia Le-Tan clutch embroidered his children to find their own way, thrive second season (broken into two parts, with a motif from To Catch a Thief— on their own terms. “Being more anony- as was season one). The important thing a favorite film of ours. mous in L.A. was reassuring,”he says. “I to Sy is to keep pushing to tell new and mean, we only know how to raise our own different stories, reflective of the world My mother happily smoothed her kids based on how we were brought up, we live in today. “I’m optimistic,” he hand over my purse; she stroked my and I don’t know how to bring up a kid says. “Life and history move forward. ostrich cuffs and giggled when they as a celebrity. I don’t even know myself accidentally swam through my crème what it really means.” It’s hard to put on the brakes.” @ anglaise at dessert. The four women at the table all commented on one another’s Los Angeles does have its challenges. RISING TO THE OCCASION earrings, which ranged from costume to First, there is soccer, or the lack of it. “I JAR. There was joy in hearing the sto- tried to teach it to my kids,”Sy says. “One CONTINUED FROM PAGE 92 ries of everyone’s accessories. We were of my sons was a great player when we all newly vaccinated, and out together on first got to the U.S., because his uncles A few weeks later, I tried again. For my this night because of that, celebrating not are all hard-core fans. He was six then, mother’s birthday, she and I went to din- just my mother’s birthday but science and and now he’s 15, and he plays basketball.” ner with a few of her friends at Majorelle, resilience and one another—and isn’t all He sighs. Then there is the food. “I know the French/Mediterranean restaurant on East 63rd Street that she loves for its that worth dressing up for? @ high-ceilinged courtyard and chicken A WORD ABOUT DISCOUNTERS WHILE VOGUE THOROUGHLY RESEARCHES THE COMPANIES charlottechesnais.fr. request) and boots chopard.com. Sandals, top ($570), and Earring, $32,000 for MENTIONED IN ITS PAGES, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF MERCHANDISE SOLD 93: On Bodian: Jacket ($2,060). 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