This movie where Marion Cotillard thought she “sucked”

This movie where Marion Cotillard thought she “sucked”



Marion Cotillard in the lead

Next year Marion Cotillard will celebrate 30 years of a career that began in 1994 with her first film appearance in The story of the boy who wanted to be kissed by Philippe Harel. And what a career! Revealed to the general public in Taxi in 1998, in the most cliché role of the hero’s sexy lover, the actress quickly raised her game to establish herself as a “performance” actress. at ease in French cinema, popular and auteur, as in great American productions of the highest level. After The childbiopic of Edith Piaf released in 2007 which earned her, among other things, the César, the BAFTA, the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best actressMarion Cotillard has thus become a desired actress all over the world and a real one cinema icon.

Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) - La Môme
Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) – La Môme ©TFM Distribution

However, she did not become too stubborn, remaining discreet and never giving up self-irony, as she did, for example, brilliantly in Rock n roll of his partner Guillaume Canet. And as devoted an actress as she is, she sometimes doubts her acting skills, too, as she recently said. Publication.

In an interview given on the occasion of the release of Mona Achache’s film Blue little girlMarion Cotillard then explained that, for a certain project, she had doubts that it was not, in her own words, “doing shit“.

“If it gets out, I’m really doing shit.”

It was during the filming of Macbeth by Justin Kurzel, released in 2015, that Marion Cotillard was filled with doubt. We could ask ourselves this question precisely for this project, knowing that other performances are objectively less successful than this one, in which she embodies LadyMacbeth alongside Michael Fassbender in the title role. But the actress has a detailed explanation.

I know the fear of not being good enough. For “Macbeth” by Justin Kurzel, for example, I had already arrived with the impression of stealing the role from an English woman, aware that I would have to work even harder. There was this complexity of accent, of Shakespeare in the language without adaptation, as if we were doing Molière in Old French.

I’m not like, “You’re doing shit,” but let’s say we go home with no real perspective, like, “Okay, I guess it wasn’t that bad, but if it goes well, I’m really doing shit.”

Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) - Macbeth
Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) – Macbeth ©StudioCanal

The critical reception of Macbeth he was complimentary and Marion Cotillard’s acclaimed performance. Not only the press and the public were convinced of this, but also his playing partner and his director, since the following year it was released Assassin’s Creed by Justin Kurzel, with Michael Fassbender and… Marion Cotillard. Because, this time, a much more mixed result…

Source: Cine Serie

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