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Is good at Brazilian martial art, "Capoeira". He demonstrates this in the Lazer Field scene in ओसन्स ट्वेल्व (2004).

Learned conversational Russian in a matter of two months, for playing the Russian character "Kirill" in Eastern Promises (2007).

He usually does the voice-over for actor Hugh Grant in French versions.

Travels so often to Bahia (Brazil), that he has even learned how to speak an almost flawless Portuguese.

His nose got broken while filming a fight scene in Les rivières pourpres (2000).

The day after I had my licence to drive I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

[on Irreversible (2002)] Yeah, I think that there is something saying, I say the line, that revenge is a human right. I don't think that it's a human right, but it's a normal reaction.

[on press interest in his marriage with Monica Bellucci] Oh, well you know, all European media is not the same. I'm sure that like in England, they can be much more bothering than in France, for example. In Paris, it's okay. We have very separate lives when we're working, working wise. I think that it's fine.

I'm a little angry in life.