Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard spoke to Brut about struggling with her public image and overcoming this personal challenge in her life ...
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00:00Like me, I really thought I was an idiot actress and I think I said a lot of idiocy at some point in this extremely destabilizing context of talking to people.
00:13Most of the time, I'm going to talk to people I've never seen, that I don't know at all.
00:25I'm going to be asked to talk about me, I'm going to be asked to talk about a lot of subjects.
00:30There is a very destabilizing and very stressful side.
00:34And so, there was a moment when I said to myself, okay, if it's to go tell stories and not master the idiot who is in you, who has, I don't know why, a desire to express himself every time he's on a TV set or in an interview, then don't talk anymore.
00:53If a director trusts you and has a look of love, of support for you, I think I'm capable of giving everything.
01:04With Olivier, for example, we didn't talk to each other. We talked rarely.
01:08We felt from the start that we were on the same wavelength, that we wanted to tell the same woman.
01:16That's what I want to achieve when I make a film, with a character, when I play.
01:21That the character takes all the space with who I am and what can remain of me.
01:32There is still this need for recognition, which is one of the themes that really interested me in Léos' film.
01:45This need to be looked at, heard, loved, which is something that I experience myself.
01:54All the questions I asked myself in relation to that made sense to me.
02:00Does this quest for the look be appeased by the look of the other?
02:07I came to the conclusion that no.
02:09Because I experienced moments where I had an immense recognition in my profession,
02:16and that it lasted a while, and that the need for recognition, almost pathological, came back.
02:24What weight do you give to short judgments?
02:29What weight do I give to short judgments?
02:33It's a big subject in my personal life.
02:38But let's say that today I have learned not to take things personally anymore.
02:42Because everyone is different. Everyone has, as they say, tastes and colors.
02:46We can't discuss them.
02:48It turns out that there are negative judgments with which I can totally agree.
02:55Now, the mockery, and the attack, and the thirst to hurt.
03:06Yeah, that could have hurt me.
03:08What was the most difficult moment in your career?
03:13Right away, even when I wasn't a public figure,
03:18I needed to focus on subjects.
03:22And that goes back to before, all the awareness, especially on ecological subjects.
03:28So, when I became a public figure, I didn't change that.
03:34What was the most difficult moment in your career?
03:39Well, there was a moment when I asked myself if it wasn't counterproductive,
03:45and if I wasn't harming those subjects that were important to me.
03:50I sincerely asked myself that question.
03:53And then I continued to have people that I supported,
03:58who shared with me the fact that my support helped them.
04:03So, I said to myself, you don't care.
04:07So, you continue.
04:09And today, it's true that I met this woman called Flore Vasseur,
04:14with whom I produced the documentary, which is officially selected in Cannes.
04:19And I'm happy that it's taking that form.
04:29So, it's no longer my words, but my desire, my encounters,
04:35that give birth to projects like Bigger Than Us, with a good French accent.
04:41This is Flore, who directed the movie.