Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Casselis a French actor best known to English-speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, as well as Black Swan. Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber and folk hero Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 November 1966
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
There is this idea that its very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think its different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
I'm a little angry in life.
I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.
I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.