Vincent Cassel Join James McAvoy in Danny Boyle’s TRANCE

Danny Boyle has found two more leads for his heist-thriller Trance. Deadline reports that Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel will join James McAvoy in the film which centers on an art heist that goes sideways when its mastermind (McAvoy) gets amnesia and can’t remember where he stashed the loot. Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson were previously rumored for the other lead roles, but now it looks like Cassel will play the leader of the heist team while Dawson will play the hypnotist tasked with recovering the mastermind’s memories. The modestly-budgeted and harder-edged picture will be more in line with Boyle’s earlier films Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

Filming on Trance is set to begin in September and then will be put on a shelf while Boyle directs the summer Olympics. He’ll pick it back up again in August 2012 for editing and then release it in March 2013. Both Dawson and Cassel will next be seen at the Toronto International Film Festival with Ten Year and A Dangerous Method, respectively.

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Screen Actors Guild Awards

• Natalie Portman wins Best Leading Actress for Black Swan
• Mila Kunis nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Black Swan, loses to Melissa Leo for The Fighter
• Black Swan cast (Portman, Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey) nominated for Best Ensemble Cast, loses to The King's Speech cast
• Portman, Kunis, and Ryder in attendance

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Vincent Cassel and Darren Aronofsky team-up for perfume commercial

Vincent Cassel, the smoking hot French choreographer from psycho-thriller "Black Swan", is reprising his role as the face of Yves Saint Laurent's best selling men's fragrance.

The actor is reteaming with his "Black Swan" director, Darren Aronofsky, for the second ad campaign for the perfume, La Nuit de L'Homme.

Though working with Aronofsky is the same on set as it is for commercials, Cassel admitted to WWD, there is a difference between portraying a character in a film and acting as a face of a fragrance.

"It is another role, but at the same time..when [people] see a movie, they think, 'Oh, it's a character.' When they see an ad, they say, 'Oh, it's him,'" he told the periodical. "But it's not."

The film for the ad, shot in Paris, revolves around Cassel playing the ultimate ladies' man attempting to seduce multiple women across the French city, all in one night. 

The sexy ad campaign is set to air in parts of Europe starting at the end of March and a month or two later in the States.

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