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Telegraph UK interview
Her performance as Edith Piaf brought the French actress Marion Cotillard worldwide recognition and an Oscar, and now she is to act opposite Johnny Depp in a violent Depression-era gangster film. She talks about why she feels she was born to portray complicated women.
When Marion Cotillard was nine years old and growing up in the French city of Orléans, she had what might be described as a full-blown existential crisis. 'I didn’t know where was my place anywhere –in school, with friends, with the other children,’ she says in her faintly broken English. 'I was shy. I was more than shy. I think I started thinking about why I was here, and I couldn’t find any answers, so it was very disturbing for me. I was not very happy because I wanted some answers. [It was] as if my brain had lost the innocence too quickly.’
The feeling that something was amiss persisted, even into her twenties. 'I was totally melancholic,’ she says with gusto. 'When I think about this period, which was really long, now that I have enough love for myself I can watch this period and be touched by this child, but I couldn’t bear being in that state of sadness.’ The odd thing about it, she says, is that she has always had a close and loving family. 'Because my parents loved us, I couldn’t dream of a better family, better brothers, better mother and father. But there was something, I don’t know, something dark, really dark about me.’
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Crédit : Telegraph & m-cotillard.com
Her performance as Edith Piaf brought the French actress Marion Cotillard worldwide recognition and an Oscar, and now she is to act opposite Johnny Depp in a violent Depression-era gangster film. She talks about why she feels she was born to portray complicated women.
When Marion Cotillard was nine years old and growing up in the French city of Orléans, she had what might be described as a full-blown existential crisis. 'I didn’t know where was my place anywhere –in school, with friends, with the other children,’ she says in her faintly broken English. 'I was shy. I was more than shy. I think I started thinking about why I was here, and I couldn’t find any answers, so it was very disturbing for me. I was not very happy because I wanted some answers. [It was] as if my brain had lost the innocence too quickly.’
The feeling that something was amiss persisted, even into her twenties. 'I was totally melancholic,’ she says with gusto. 'When I think about this period, which was really long, now that I have enough love for myself I can watch this period and be touched by this child, but I couldn’t bear being in that state of sadness.’ The odd thing about it, she says, is that she has always had a close and loving family. 'Because my parents loved us, I couldn’t dream of a better family, better brothers, better mother and father. But there was something, I don’t know, something dark, really dark about me.’
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Crédit : Telegraph & m-cotillard.com
Adorable.
Gorgeous. I love how she experiments. And regardless of the fact that she chopped half of her hair off, she always manages to try a different style!
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