French actor Vincent Lindon often plays well-meaning characters. But he can’t take credit for their selfless choices, he stressed.

“When I made ‘Welcome’ [about a man helping Kurdish refugee] there were people in the street who shook my hand and said: ‘Thank you very much for what you do for the migrants. Really, Mr. Lindon, bravo.’ I replied: ‘Thank you, but it’s not me’.”

“When I made ‘The Measure of a Man,’ they said: ‘You’re really brave.’ They confuse what I do in films with who I am in real life. But my small contribution is that I’m still making them. I could’ve been making bigger films, earning more money and taking fewer risks.”

Speaking at Torino Film Festival , where he’s set to pick up the Stella della Mole award during the closing ceremony, Lindon opened up about what d

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