“There, I was rubbish”: Vincent Cassel has only one regret in his career

In a career spanning (already…) more than thirty years, Vincent Cassel has largely shown himself to be very eclectic in his artistic choices, not always happy but always comfortable with change.

From Mesrine in Jean-Francois Richet’s Diptych, the French villain of the Westworld series, including The Three Musketeers, Black Swan, Jacques Audiard’s On My Lips, Mont Roy Maven or Xavier Dolan’s Intrusion in Juste la fin du world. In short, a (too) wide range.

The actor does not have many regrets in his career. In fact, he only has one, as he explained to Pierre Lescourt in his show Beau geste, dedicated to cinema and aired on France 2.

In this case, which one? That I didn’t star in Ladj Ly’s 2019 film Les Misérables, which will take home, among other things, 4 Césars in 2020, including Best French Film of the Year.

“I only have one regret, only one, and it was a small role anyway. Ladj Ly called me to play it, and it was a somewhat difficult time in my life. So I was acting. . . . I said, ‘Well, I couldn’t do it. I can’t block myself…”

And when I saw the movie… well, not even. When I saw the trailer, I said to myself, “Poor bastard!” So I called him and said: “Lady, I’ve never regretted it, but I was rubbish.”

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