People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
Vincent CasselI come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
Vincent CasselI didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age. I didn't really care to be in the last Andrรฉ Tรฉchinรฉ or Claude Chabrol movie, even though some of them are really interesting. For me, it was much more important to work with Mathieu Kassovitz or Gaspar Noรฉ. It was for me a question of identity.
Vincent CasselPeople are more familiar with pictures of Jacques Mesrine that had been taken of him at the end of his life, when he was doing a lot of things with the media. So there's an iconic figure that people know, and I had to eventually get there; otherwise I guess the audience would have been disappointed. My only problem is that I'm a skinny guy, and it's very hard for me to put on weight.
Vincent Cassel