Vincent Cassel moved by evoking his father Jean-Pierre Cassel

Vincent Cassel followed in the footsteps of his illustrious father Jean-Pierre Cassel by becoming an actor himself. The two men have never played together in the cinema, an appointment just missed, as the actor explained with emotion in seven to eight on TF1.

Vincent Cassel is on the poster for the new Asterix, directed by Guillaume Canet, in theaters this Wednesday, February 1. He interprets the role of Julius Caesar, the sworn enemy of the little Gaul. He also allowed himself a little freedom with the character by taking up the gesture of a famous rapper. This Sunday, November 29, the actor was the guest of Audrey Crespo-Mara for the portrait of the week of seven to eight. In particular, he returned to his relationship with his famous father, Jean-Pierre Casselwho died in April 2007, at the age of 74. A subject on which he had until then refused to expand, sometimes creating discomfort on set.

His father had warned him against acting.

Thierry Ardisson’s companion asked him why his father did not want him to follow in his footsteps. “It’s more complex than that. I think you can’t lead your kids into that kind of career, because it’s so uncertain. And it’s so frustrating and damaging. Especially if it doesn’t work out. It’s a thing where you are refused for the face you have, for what you give off”, he recalled. “I think sending your children in that kind of direction would be quite criminal. I think those are directions you take when you have a real passion.” he insisted. The companion of Tina Kunakey has also revealed that his father had stopped harassing him about his studies after attending his first show. “Because he saw that it was a choice that was unique to me. And that in fact, I was doing it not to be like him, but I was doing it because it had become a way for me to express myself and to express the energy that I had in me”, he specified.

Jean-Pierre Cassel should have played Mesrine’s father

As Audrey Crespo-Mara recalled, Vincent Cassel refused to play with his father for a long time until the film Mesrin, where Jean-Pierre Cassel should have camped that of the gangster. Unfortunately, he passed away from cancer before. But the actor said he does not regret not having given him the reply. “In fact it was like that. It was my way of building myself,” he observed. “In fact, we were supposed to do Mesrine, where Mesrine comes to see his father who is dying of cancer. And the story which is terrible, which shows a lot of the humor he had. I knew it wouldn’t last long. And I tell hims: ‘But Dad, are you surewhen you get out of there, do you really want to go do a guy who dies in a hotel of cancer?’ He answered me : ‘That, at least, I’m sure I play it well'”, he confided, his eyes still shining with emotion at this evocation.