Vincent Cassel became a father for the fourth time on January 7. A birth which provokes numerous comments on social networks, Internet users pointing out the repeated pattern of romantic relationships of the 58-year-old actor.
“He had another child with a mixed-race woman aged under 30”: Vincent Cassel under fire from critics
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A white actor who goes out with women 30 years younger than him, routine! The world of cinema is a specialist in this area. In the United States, Leonardo Dicaprio has become the emblem of this patriarchal cliché. Even recently, we told you about it in this article, the appearance of the 50-year-old actor with his 26-year-old girlfriend caused Internet users to react.
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Vincent Cassel, dad for the 4th time
In France, our own Dicaprio is called Vincent Cassel. The 58-year-old actor is now famous for not only dating women 30 years younger than him but also women of color and racialized people in the same way to boot.
On January 7, the actor from the film La Haine became a father for the 4th time. He announced it on his Instagram account three days later. “Guess who was born on January 7, 2025… already smart, full of health, love and poetry. The coolest guy ever”he wrote in the caption of a drawing representing a little boy with dark skin, from behind, wearing a t-shirt on which it is written “Caetano”. A way of announcing his son's first name.
His relationship with Narah Baptista
This little boy is the fruit of his relationship withBrazilian model Narah Baptista, 28 years old. They have been together since at least September 2023, the date of their first appearance together spotted by the paparazzi. This was more or less the same time that his marriage to Tina Kunakey ended.
-A disturbing pattern
The cliché of a famous man dating a woman 30 years younger than him is already enough to raise an eyebrow. But it's even more disturbing when we see the common points between Vincent Cassel's ex and current partner.
As a reminder, Tina Kunakey, 27is barely one older than Narah Baptista, she is also a model and has physical similarities with it, starting with their matte skin color. In a relationship with the actor since 2015 (she was only 18 years old and he was 47), they married in 2018 and welcomed their daughter Amazonie in 2019.
with “jungle fever”
What is even more disturbing in the fact that Vincent Cassel has relationships with very young mixed-race women are the comments he made in an interview published by Marie Claire magazine in 2011. “When I was young, I had what we call “jungle fever.” : I was only attracted to mixed-race or black women. Then I specialized in Asian girls, and then little Parisian rebels,” he said then. A sickening summary ofexoticization of racialized womenreduced to their physical attributes linked to what places them on the racial spectrum.
Internet users are ironic
On social networks, Internet users notice the pattern and are ironic, especially women. “wesh Vincent Cassel had another child with a mixed-race woman aged under 30”“I would be mixed race, I would be too afraid that Vincent Cassel would harass me to give him a sick child”, “As a mixed race person under 25, I'm afraid of waking up pregnant with Vincent Cassel one morning without understanding Why…”we can read on X.
The mixed race, the black, the Asian, the “rebeux”, a collection to which Monica Bellucci visibly escaped. The Italian actress was in a relationship with Vincent Cassel for 17 years and married to him for 14 years. Together they had two girls : actress and model Deva Cassel, 20 years old, and Léonie Cassel, 14 years old. Italian actor fever perhaps?
