Vincent Cassel on Explicit Sex Scenes with His Wife Monica Bellucci | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, actor Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) compares a dancer's devotion to ballet to that of a priest, recalls the revolutionary spirit behind his work in La Haine and tells the story of how he came to work with his wife in Gaspar Noe's notoriously explicit film, Irreversible. Transcript I guess I became an actor because my father was an actor, you know, and I really grew up watching him on sets, on stage, and you know, he had so much fun with what he was doing that for me, it was totally natural to become one. I took ballet, jazz, name it, I did like, acrobatics, capoiera, you know it was, I thought I needed to learn everything. Well, yeah, sure, on a macho tip, you might think ballet is you know for girls, but once you experience it, it's one of the hardest things ever, so I guess you know ballet has a lot to do with boxing or being a priest. Because you know, you can't eat, you have to suffer every day, you have to dedicate yourself to something, and you're not going to make any money out of it. I really worked and did everything I had to do with people of my age, of my generation, you know. We were young and angry and we thought we were here to revolutionize French cinema. Didn't happen, though. La Haine? It was black and white, it was about the suburbs, it was something not against the government, but you know, it was questioning the police system, you know. The heroes were like you know thre