Never look back: actor Vincent Cassel, France’s scary star, on working with Eva Green and the difference between TV and films
- Cassel is starring with Eva Green in both Apple TV+’s Liaison and new film The Three Musketeers, as well as playing Caesar in Asterix and Obelix
- He talks about getting an international audience as a French actor, working with Green, and why he never looks back
Actor Vincent Cassel will loom large on big and small screens this year, appearing in two blockbuster French films and a new spy thriller on Apple TV+.
Liaison pairs Cassel with another major French export, Eva Green, as former lovers forced to work together to stop a series of major cyberattacks.
The 56-year-old star of Black Swan is not coy about why he chose to work with the tech giant.
“It’s very simple. There are not many opportunities for a French actor to get an international audience,” he says. “The power of a company like Apple is that they can press a button and 150 million people know about it. It isn’t negligible.”
Cassel is already a big name internationally, of course, thanks largely to two landmark French films where he deployed his scary energy to the hilt – 1995’s gritty urban tale La Haine and 2002’s infamous rape drama Irreversible.