Omar Sy Talks Filming ‘Inferno’ in Florence

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This weekend, Inferno arrives into the theaters. Ron Howard returns to direct the third installment of the Robert Langdon series, which follows 2006’s The Da Vinci Code and 2009’s Angels & Demons. The three mystery thriller films are based off of the novels by Dan Brown.

Check out the official synopsis for the film below:

Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s population.

Shooting for the film took place in Venice, Florence, and Budapest. Star Omar Sy talked to BackstageOL’s Dave Morales about what it was like to film n Florence, Italy.

“It was very, very, very special,” he said. “For me, coming from France, doing movies in France, it makes really the difference you know in Hollywood movies, you’re shooting in special spaces, but you have the authorization to shoot in the Palazzo Vecchio.”

“It was really interesting to have that feeling being in the real place, to feel the energy, to feel the history,” the French actor continued.

Inferno also stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Irrfan Khan.

Watch our interview with Sy and Foster below: