La Haine: Cassel was nominated for two Césars – for best young actor and best actor – in this gritty and uncompromising cult tale of a single day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris. “But it won’t be replaced by TV because the cinematic experience is different – it’s an experience we share, while often with TV we’re alone with our screen as we are so often these days, obsessed with these little things that make us lower our heads.” “Cinema will be obliged to renew itself and find the means to continue to exist. “I can assure you I’ve done films that were $1million for the whole thing. “It was around $8-10million per episode (for ‘Liaison’),” he said. He makes little distinction between film and TV, not least because the budgets are no longer distinguishable. More and more I realise that I’m concentrating on what matters most to me – my mental health, my physical health, my family, my children, my wife, my friends – and possibly the upcoming projects because they are the most interesting.” “In any case, I have more and more trouble staying in front of a screen so I’m not a big consumer of cinema or series. “I’m incapable of comprehending what I’ve done and it doesn’t really interest me. “I don’t have a rearview mirror really,” he said. He is also due to star in a biopic of famed French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.Ĭassel likes to keep things moving forward. More is in the pipeline – not least the intriguing prospect of Cassel playing a version of David Cronenberg in the Canadian director’s semi-autobiographical film The Shrouds. So we immediately had this electricity between us.” “I had the impression of her as a female version of the type of actor I can be.
“Eva is a really unique actress with a very instinctive side,” he said. Everything is possible,” he said.Ĭassel said he was over the moon to have an extended partnership with Green, his co-star in both Liaison and The Three Musketeers. “When we choose to do this for a living, it can all stop from one day to the next, but then suddenly two days later – and this has happened to me – you can find yourself in China, in Korea or Hollywood.
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