Vincent Cassel on Westworld S3's Dystopian Future

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Actor Vincent Cassel (Ocean's 12, Black Swan, Jason Bourne) talks about joining the cast of one of his favorite TV series Westworld, playing a reclusive billionaire with a dark view of humanity, and how his character attempts to make order out of chaos. Vincent discusses how Westworld Season 3 deals with the very real problem of big data (and who controls it) and says that it has inspired him to be a lot more careful about the information that he shares on his devices. He also reminisces about the career of his father, famous french actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, and how Gene Kelly discovered his dad on the movie An American in Paris. He recalls being heavily influenced by Hollywood films as a kid, learning to tap dance from Broadway legend Michael Bennett, and why he originally tried to join the circus before getting into acting. Vincent reveals how he persuaded director Steven Soderbergh to let him do his own stunts in Ocean's 12, how an acting teacher inspired his role as the controlling choreographer in Black Swan, and why this Frenchman always seems to get cast as a Russian. See Vincent Cassel in Season 3 of Westworld, airing Sundays on HBO. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Facebook at Kickass News or on Twitter at @KickassNewsPod. You can also visit www.kickassnews.com for more fun stuff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	Folks, I don't get obsessed with a lot of television series,
0:43.7	but one show that blew me away from day one and has kept me on the edge of my seat
0:48.4	for going on three seasons now is HBO's Westworld.
0:52.4	Besides boasting a spectacular cast that includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris,
0:57.2	Thandy Newton, Jeffrey Wright, and Evan Rachel Wood.
1:00.8	Westworld is epic in scale and features some of the best writing on television.
1:05.5	It also gives viewers a glimpse of the not-too-distant future,
1:08.8	both the good and the bad, that doesn't seem so far from the realm of possibility.
1:14.0	Indeed, much of the technology portrayed in season three from self-driving cars to drone
1:18.8	helicopters is already in development right now.
1:22.5	And there's yet another reason to love the new season of Westworld,
1:25.9	the addition of Vincent Cassel to the cast.
1:28.8	The French actor, who has been one of the best parts of films such as Ocean's Eleven
1:33.3	and Ocean's Thirteen, Eastern Promises, Black Swan, and Jason Bourne,
1:37.9	plays a reclusive billionaire who might hold the fate of the human race in his hands.
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