Happy Birthday: Vincent Cassel

Vincent Cassel

Born: November 23, 1966 in Paris, France

[on his wife, Monica Bellucci] Her best asset of actress – and woman too! – is not her beauty, but her intelligence. Her intelligence of people and of things. She is very perspicacious, very attentive with the others and has a great faculty to put them at ease. To work with her, I would say, to put besides any concept of couple, that it is as when I find Mathieu [Mathieu Kassovitz]: together, one goes more directly to essence. Plus, she is an incredible hard worker. She has a curiosity of cinema which is rare. She is moved by the directors, she is very listening . . . In general, I recognize it, I am interested more in the actors than in the actresses – is already well to recognize it! But her, she has something that few actresses have. A…