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On Monday, February 19, the French actress was the guest Click TVthe show being performed Canal+ By Mulud Achur. It was there that he talked about his role in Tim Burton’s film.
If Marion Cotillard is now part of the Hollywood landscape, the actress realizes that she is not always comfortable dancing in American cinema. The first American production in which the actress starred was none other than Big fish, released in 2004, directed by Tim Burton. The cast includes such stars as Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange and Helena Bonham Carter. The feature film was a huge success at the box office, but also among its peers, with no less than 4 Golden Globe nominations and an Oscar nomination for Best Score for Danny Elfman.
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His first American film
In Big fishMarion Cotillard, then 27 years old, plays Josephine, the wife of the main character, William. Guest of the program Click TVOn February 19, he confided his impressions of his speech to host Mulud Achour. “I didn’t think I was very good in this movie, honestly. In fact, every time I said to myself, “Okay, I’m really going to save the good times when the plan is on me. […] And actually I didn’t understand anything. I was a bit crazy, I was a bit stressed, I gained 6 kilograms on the film.
When Marion meets Tim
In a 2004 interview AlloCiné To promote Big Fish, Marion Cotillard shared how she joined the cast of the film. “They were looking for a French actress to play Josephine,” he explained. Tim Burton came to Paris to meet some young women. Coming there to meet actresses is quite rare among Americans. I talked to him for twenty minutes, it went pretty well. Then they sent me two scenes and asked me to do some tests, tape them and send them back to Los Angeles.” While he “knocked off the deal,” his agent told him he was cast in a movie and that he was flying to Alabama on location in three weeks. “I really exploded there,” he recalled.
Since then, the actress has conquered Hollywood and continued to work with America’s greatest directors and actors. In 2010, he notably starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio Getting started, by Christopher Nolan. Two years later, the British director called again french For Batman: The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. In 2016, we found him on a poster AlliesBy Robert Zemeckis, hand in hand with Brad Pitt.
Source: Le Figaro
