As Vincent Cassel gears up to hit UK cinemas as notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine in Jean-François Richet's biopic on 28 August, Film Weekly celebrates with a look back on the career of this great actor.
In this wide-ranging interview with Jason Solomons, recorded live at Bafta earlier this summer, Cassel talks about some landmark roles in an acting career spanning more than 25 years: his breakthrough as thuggish Vinz in La Haine (and how the film was almost subtitled for its French release), the pleasure and extreme challenge of working with his wife Monica Bellucci in the controversial Irreversible and his César-winning performance as Mesrine.
