Vincent Cassel made a radical decision recently. As he tells it in the latest issue of the magazine Edgar, released on newsstands this Thursday, he has in fact decided to “remove news alerts from your phone” because receiving them is, for him, “the best way to drive yourself crazy”. ““Tight flow is useless: you don’t even have time to digest the information relayed.” he states, advising “take two steps back”.
Vincent Cassel criticizes the news media
The actor, who is currently starring in Saint-Ex by Pablo Aguëro released in theaters on December 11, says he keeps up to date with what’s happening in the world while keeping a very critical eye on what he reads. “I’m one of those people who think that between the soup we’re served and the real ingredients that make it up, there’s a huge difference.”he asserts to Edgar before insisting on not “not take at face value the narrative given to us through the media. Vincent Cassel goes even further by revealing that he “I even think that people who continue to believe that what they see on the news is a reflection of reality are extremely naive”. On his way, the actor discovered in Hate by Mathieu Kassovitz, also discusses the information on the internet. “There’s so much information and misinformation it’s crazy. But I still think there are more realities coming through in this flow of shit than before, when it wasn’t there were only one or two news outlets“.
Vincent Cassel’s cash opinion on Hollywood and politics
Without any tongue in cheek throughout this interview, Vincent Cassel also does not pull any gloves when commenting on the current state of America while he is questioned about “Hollywood is dying“. “It’s not American cinema that is sticking its tongue out at the moment, it’s America. This economic and cultural model which was proposed to us or even literally imposed over all these years (…) today, all the flaws are appearing”he says before pointing the finger at the last elections pitting Democrat Kamala Haris against Republican Donald Trump. “You only have to look at the last elections: between the plague and cholera, they had to choose. Even if I’m not sure that here, that we are really better off.”
Celebrities
