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This is Marion Cotillard for the July issue of Vogue. She’s a gorgeous woman and these are lovely photos… but is it just me, or does she not look quite like Marion Cotillard? At first glance, I thought it was Zooey Deschanel. The whole point of the profile is for Marion to promote her role in Inception, but she refuses to talk about the character she plays, or even what the film is about. So, eh. The full Vogue piece is here, and here are some of the scant highlights:
On her American accent: “I still have problems with A’s and L’s—especially at the end of a word.”
On her diet and environmentalism: She wants to find choux romanesco “that looks like fractals,” rejects melons from Morocco—”Fragile fruit has to travel by air; too big a carbon footprint.” An eco-warrior who works with Tristan Lecomte and his Alter Eco reforestation project, she’s a locavore who knows her greens. And her fish. Marion and her two brothers, twins Guillaume and Quentin, learned to cook defensively when their mother took up macrobiotics.
Studying acting: “As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”
On wanting more than just work in France: “The directors I dreamed of were Coppola, Scorsese, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Spielberg because of E.T. I wasn’t considered an actress. I didn’t want to get bitter while waiting for something to happen, so when I was 27, I told my agent I was stopping and going to work for Greenpeace. He said, ‘Please just have this one meeting.’ It was with Tim Burton, for Big Fish, and I got the part.”
On playing Edith Piaf: “There was one little problem: The finance people didn’t want me… I learned how to make the space inside me for her to come in.” Along with hard work and intense research, there was mystical surrender and some mimicry—her brothers saw that she had copied their great-uncle’s walk for Piaf’s later years. When the film was over, she couldn’t shake Piaf. Her hairline and her eyebrows were still shaved. She fled with Canet to Peru and the Amazon; she went to Bora Bora with her best friend, Geraldine. “It was there that I found myself articulating why Piaf was still living inside me. She had been abandoned as a child; her greatest fear was to be alone. Now I didn’t want to abandon her. I finally was able to say, ‘She’s been dead for 40 years; it’s OK.’ “
[From Vogue]
I realized when I saw Marion and the cast of Nine on Oprah during the awards season that Marion is a very peculiar woman. Not bad peculiar, just a bit eccentric, or, as we say in the South, “whifty”. She’s not dumb, she’s not untalented, she just seems to not be able to really put into words whatever starburst-afghan-blanket-kitten-yawn nonsense if rattling around in her brain. And before you say that perhaps something is lost in translation, don’t. Her English is spectacular. She’s just weird.
Photos courtesy of The Fashion Spot and Vogue‘s slideshow.
Written by Kaiser
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You’re totally right about her looking like Zooey Deschanel.
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She was fantastic in “Le Vie En Rose”
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on my opinion on the pix she doesn’t look alike Zoey D. but she doesn’t look alike Marion Cotillard whom i know(i’m french)
about her language,even in french she has this trouble “you know when she starts but you don’t know where she’ll finish”
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The weird ones tend to be successful. Go on with your gorgeous and weird/whifty self, Marion!!
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“starburst-afghan-blanket-kitten-yawn” I love it!
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La Vie en Rose was a bit too overwrought for my tastes, although she fully justified her Oscar – and wasn’t it great to see a fabulous performance win rather than a glam-movie-star-uglying-up or Harvey Weinstein buying it? I love her purely for the 3 Taxi films she did and I think Chris Nolan will have a price on her head if she talks about Inception too soon!
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I’ve only ever seen her in Public Enemies, so maybe I’m judging unfairly but she was TERRIBLE in that movie. If that is representative of her work then I don’t understand how she keeps getting roles.
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Why is it, I do not like her?
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How did you get wierd from that? She’s fine! And if she is, so what?! Does everyone have to be the same, white bread and boring. She’s different and interesting and shakes things up a bit. Also, English isn’t her first language…some things may get lost in translation and FOR SURE, she has a French sensibility…I wouldn’t expect her to act the same as American actresses. So me, I celebrate her so-called wierdness!
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She is wonderful. Too bad they airbrushed the hell out of her on the cover.
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Weird is beautiful
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I love her in all her wacky glory. But these are the least lovely photos of her I’ve ever seen.
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“she just seems to not be able to really put into words whatever starburst-afghan-blanket-kitten-yawn nonsense if rattling around in her brain.”
Thats pretty much my problem
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Team Weird every time!
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Another vote for team weird.
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Is being intelligent now “weird”? Marion has the brains to understand that the 911 attack was an inside job – certainly it was not as depicted by the shoddy and intellectually deceptive 911 Commission Report.
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I think she’s beautiful, interesting and smart. Loved her in “A Good Year”…
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@Fluffy Kitten Tail
I completely agree. I also don’t like her but I have no idea why.
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I think the cover photo is styled to be reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor- the dark brown wavy bob and the almost violet eyes. Vogue has been going retro lately (Grace Kelly), so it would make sense.
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She is a beauty, though I agree these aren’t the best ever snaps of her (the outdoor walking shot excluded).
Reading this article actually gave me a wonderful feeling of affinity for her.
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I think they changed her eye colour. Aren’t they turquoise? It seems like they changed the shape as well. Not the same bedroom eyes.
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re: Marion thinking 9/11 was an inside job – She said that the government destroyed the twin towers because they were too cheap to update old internet cables in the building and they thought detroying the buildings would be easier. That sounds intelligent to you? You’re setting the bar pretty low.
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i love that black dress. me want.
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Okay, I must be weird, because I, too, am not getting weird from that. (the 9/11 stuff is stupid, ridiculous, and batty, but I’m ot seeing that anywhere in the brief above)
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Lisa Marconi: Um……okaaaay
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Marion’s one of the best actresses I’ve ever seen, just by her performance in ‘La Vie En Rose’ alone. Strange that they changed her eye color though, her eyes are supposed to be blue.
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Not Weird, just French. Euro centric!
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“she just seems to not be able to really put into words whatever starburst-afghan-blanket-kitten-yawn nonsense if rattling around in her brain.”
Thats pretty much my problem
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Same here.
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I like the phrase “learned to cook defensively”. Now I’ve got an image of someone being threatened by an intruder, saying “come any closer and I’ll roast these potatoes!”.
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I’ve have such a girl crush on this woman.
She just has a highly sensitive nature and has trouble verbalizing the rather inarticulable impressions that come to her. I understand because I will start in London, board a train to Paris, and end up in China.
They seriously exaggerated her eyes. They aren’t that hue of blue.
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@tripmom,
what Marion said according to the Telegraph was:
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” she said, singling out September 11. Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: “We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated “money sucker” which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.
Yes, she is a very bright woman.
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Is it only me or the writer of the Vogue article (and the media and the rest of Hollywood) is plain deaf? Marion Cotillard is not the only French to master an American accent. Jeanne Moreau, is the best French actress, her English and American accent is perfect. She didn’t win an OSCAR, but she’s the best French actress ever, definitely not Marion. The only reason that Marion Cotillard gets all of these praises is because of her “La Vie En Rose” performance and the Academy award she received for it. She’s not even good in Public Enemies, her accent suck, like she is totally forced to play Billie Frechette just because of the sudden fame she get from winning the OSCAR. In fact, Eva Green is a much better actress than Marion, especially on the accent. But because she epitomizes the real definition of eccentricity and weirdness that is so-not Hollywood unlike this Marion-chick she doesn’t get the attention she deserves.
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