“The next day, I couldn't walk”: 12 years ago, Vincent Cassel gave everything for this American thriller

Soderbergh's surprising confidence

In 2004 Reading the Ocean's Twelve script,, Vincent Cassel believes that the laser scene deserves to have recourse martial art dance that he has known well to practice it for a long time: Capoeira. He then suggested that the director adapt the scene to the Brazilian, showing him combat videos and shares with him signed Kourtrajmé. The director says yes to everything: the music of the surety that the actor suggested to him, and the laser scene in Capoeira version. It is then that Soderbergh will surprise the French actor: despite the monstrous cost of the museum rental where the shooting takes place, he gives him “the keys to the truck” to prepare the scene.

A laser staging … and a bunch of aches

Authorized to come and repeat in the morning with a reduced team, the interpreter was joined in the afternoon by Soderbergh and the technical team responsible for filming this stylized action scene. But despite intensive preparation and regular training, Vincent Cassel is not a professional stuntman!

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After an exhausting day to fly, roll, dance and jump in this sequence filmed with master's hand, the actor who had nevertheless scrapped with presence in the wolf pact can no longer: “ If I had been asked to have an extra day like this, I would not have been capable of it!”He concludes. But the result is worth a look! And has not completely disgusted the actor of Mesrine, who did not hesitate to keep his athlete form for Jason Bourne and the Emperor of Paris.