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Omar Sy acted in numerous French projects for the early portion of his career, including the award-winning 2011 film The Intouchables, but the place where most Americans were probably first introduced to him was in X-Men: Days of Future Past. He played the mutant hero known as Bishop, one of the most powerful X-Men in the comics, who has the power of energy resorption. He can then redirect the energy into a concussive blast to use against his opponents, which proves to be quite useful in taking down Sentinels ... for a period of time. 

In the movie, Bishop is seen during the dystopian future timeline, as he tries to protect mutantkind alongside his fellow X-Men, including Kitty Pryde (Elliot Page), Warpath (Booboo Stewart), Sunspot (Adan Canto), Blink (Bingbing Fan), and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore). Here, we get a glimpse into how Kitty's powers have evolved since X-Men: The Last Stand, when she manages to send Bishop's consciousness back to the past, back before the movie's opening sequence, allowing Bishop to change the future in such a way that the team makes it out alive. 

Later, when Kitty sends Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back to his body in the 1970s to stop the Sentinels from ever taking over, Bishop is there to defend his comrades from a Sentinel attack — in the process, ultimately absorbing far more power than he's capable of containing. He spontaneously combusts. Luckily, the time traveling plan manages to succeed, creating a timeline where the Sentinels are never mass-produced, and the X-Men are alive. 

While this was Omar Sy's first foray into blockbuster territory, it wouldn't be his last.