History Trivia / Lupin2021

** Claire's activities in Part 3 apparently came about because Creator/LudivineSagnier asked to be allowed to do something cool.

** Omar Sy was originally meant to [[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-29/how-netflix-s-lupin-and-omar-sy-pulled-off-the-perfect-heist-show play the real Arsene Lupin]] but was made into an original character.

** Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Antoine Gouy and Clotilde Hesme, all of whom were around 40 at the time of filming, play Assane, Claire, Benjamin and Juliette in both the present timeline and 2006, when the characters are supposed to be in their mid to late twenties. Digital de-aging was employed.

** In the 1995 flashbacks, when Assane first meets Juliette, he mentions that his fourteenth birthday is around the corner, and it seems that the Arsène Lupin book gifted to him by Babakar was intended as a birthday present. The police file on the case indicates that all of this was going on in October of that year, but Assane's gravestone, which is shown in Part 3, establishes that his birthday is on May 13th. Given how many events still supposedly happen in 1995 even after this, the spring seems more plausible anyway.
** The social worker who assumes responsibility of Assane following his father's death in the Part 1 flashbacks seemingly morphs into the principal at the College d'Andrésy in Part 2. Both the social worker and the principal are listed in the credits as "Monsieur Philippe Bouchard" and they have the same actor (Éric Paul). In a possible case of TheOtherDarrin for the Part 3 flashbacks, the head of the school is played by Charles Roger-Bour and is just credited as "principal."

** The social worker who assumes responsibility of Assane following his father's death in the Part 1 flashbacks seemingly morphs into the principal at the College d'Andrésy in Part 2. Whether they're intended to be the same person is unclear, but both are listed in the credits as "Monsieur Philippe Bouchard" and they're played by the same actor (Éric Paul). In a possible case of TheOtherDarrin for the Part 3 flashbacks, the head of the school is played by Charles Roger-Bour and is just credited as "principal."
** When Claire checks her phone at the beginning of episode 3.01, the date is listed as Tuesday, November 27th. The scene is explicitly set in 2021, and November 27th of that year fell on a Saturday. What makes this particularly odd is that the last time November 27th was a Tuesday was all the way back in 2018--and it won't happen again until 2029, due to the 2024 leap year.

** The social worker who assumes responsibility of Assane following his father's death seemingly morphs into the principal at the College d'AndréSy. Whether they're intended to be the same person is unclear, but both are listed in the credits as "Monsieur Philippe Bouchard" and they're played by the same actor (Éric Paul). In a possible case of TheOtherDarrin for Part 3, in a flashback scene the head of the school is played by Charles Roger-Bour and is just credited as "principal."

* SeriesContinuityError: In the 1995 flashbacks, when Assane first meets Juliette, he mentions that his fourteenth birthday is around the corner, and it seems that the Arsène Lupin book gifted to him by Babakar was intended as a birthday present. The police file on the case indicates that all of this was going on in October of that year, but Assane's gravestone, which is shown in Part 3, establishes that his birthday is on May 13th.

* PeripheryDemographic: The show has become popular with French instructors, who often play scenes or entire episodes from it for their students in order to provide them with examples of spoken French in both formal and colloquial registers.

* BillingDisplacement: Nicole Garcia (Anne Pellegrini) is the fourth name listed in the credits for the episodes she appears in--after Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, and Clotilde Hesme, and before the likes of Soufiane Guerrab (Guédira) and Antoine Gouy (Benjamin)--despite having minimal screen time in the show overall. This is likely due to Garcia being a very well-known and highly-regarded actress in France, while Guerrab and Gouy aren't as well-known.

* ProductPlacement: One could be forgiven for thinking that the show is an extremely elaborate ad for Nike sneakers, given how prominently Assane's many pairs of Air Jordans are featured.

** Ludivine Sagnier initially rose to prominence as French cinema's resident [[MsFanservice frequently-naked]] GenkiGirl. As Claire, she embodies a GirlNextDoor turned single mother. Sagnier has said that part of the reason she wanted to be in the series--in addition to her desire to work with Omar Sy--was because she would [[SoMyKidsCanWatch be able to watch it with her children]]. (She's also suggested that Claire is in fact closer to her actual personality than the roles she'd been known for in her twenties.)

** A non-insignificant number of Anglophone viewers initially believed that Hubert Pellegrini was played by Creator/KevinSpacey, due to the physical similarities between Spacey and Hubert's actor Hervé Pierre.

* FriendlyFandoms:
** With ''Series/MoneyHeist'', although there is a mild FandomRivalry between the two over which is the better Netflix-distributed internationally successful European crime caper show. Amusingly, the ''Money Heist'' spinoff series ''Berlin'' was met with a mixed reception from ''Money Heist'' fans...largely due to its being seen as a somewhat inferior version of ''Lupin'' rather than recapturing the tone of its predecessor.
** Fans of ''Lupin'' who gravitate towards the comedy genre also tend to enjoy ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', due in part to the obvious similarities between the dynamic that Guédira shares with Assane and that between Jake Peralta and Doug Judy in the American sitcom. The fact that Sofia Belkacem is a borderline {{Expy}} of Rosa Diaz also doesn't hurt.

** Ludivine Sagnier initially rose to prominence as French cinema's resident [[MsFanservice frequently-naked]] GenkiGirl. As Claire, she embodies a GirlNextDoor turned single mother. Sagnier has said that part of the reason she wanted to be in the series--in addition to her desire to work with Omar Sy--was because she would [[SoMyKidsCanWatch be able to watch it with her children]].

** There were plans to have Assane appear in the Paris-set ''Series/MoneyHeist'' spinoff series ''Berlin'', which would have confirmed that ''Lupin'' and ''Money Heist'' take place within [[TheVerse the same universe]]. However, this fell through due to scheduling conflicts.

** Ludivine Sagnier is best known for being French cinema's resident [[MsFanservice frequently-nude]] GenkiGirl. As Claire, she embodies a GirlNextDoor turned single mother. Sagnier has said that part of the reason she wanted to be in the series--in addition to her desire to work with Omar Sy--was because she would [[SoMyKidsCanWatch be able to watch it with her children]].

** Ludivine Sagnier played Tinkerbell in the 2003 live-action adaptation of ''Film/PeterPan''. Viewers of a different persuasion may also remember her as the [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl naked woman]] from all those early-aughts Creator/FrancoisOzon films.