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French actors who have been associated with racism include:
Brigitte Bardot: She has made racial insults in her writings, especially when criticizing immigration and Islam in France. She has been fined multiple times for inciting racial hatred. In a 2019 letter, she referred to residents of Réunion island as "degenerate savages" and "a degenerate population still soaked in barbarous ancestral traditions".
Samy Naceri: In 2006, he was sentenced to six months in jail for racially abusing a Black police officer. He later expressed shame, stating that alcohol and drugs were to blame. Despite this, he has also spoken out against racism in France.
Omar Sy: He faced backlash and accusations of racism after comments comparing attitudes toward the war in Ukraine with those toward conflicts elsewhere. He asserts that the criticism he received is an example of racism.
Gérard Depardieu: He sparked a racism controversy when cast as the mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in the film L'Autre Dumas. Critics were upset that Depardieu, who is fair-skinned, had to darken his skin to play the role, given Dumas' heritage as the grandson of a Haitian slave.
