DEADLINE: You’ve been coming to the Cannes Film Festival nearly every year since the late 1990s, making your first appearance in the Official Selection in 2011. What does the festival mean to you? Watch on Deadline
MARION COTILLARD: When I was a kid, it was kind of a dream to see what was happening during the festival. The first time I came, I was so excited to be part of this very magical place
DEADLINE: Do you ever get to watch films when you’re at the festival?
DEADLINE: Can you tell us a bit about your role in psychological thriller Karma?
DEADLINE: This is your sixth film with Canet after Little White Lies, Blood Ties, Rock’n Roll, Little White Lies 2 and Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. Do you think you will work together again?
DEADLINE: The tale of an actress who heads to Rome in the 1980s for a film shoot, Bertrand Mandico’s Roma Elastica is in a very different vein. How did you get involved?
COTILLARD: The film is very much an homage to Italian cinema and the freedom of creativity and craziness that Italian movies once had.
DEADLINE: How was it shooting at Cinecittà. Had you shot there before?
COTILLARD: There’s this very special feeling about filming there because of all the masterpieces that shot there in the past, and this world of cinema that you can still feel.
DEADLINE: Outside of your movie work, you recently appeared in the fourth season of The Morning Show alongside Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, as high-powered TV exec Celine Dumont, who becomes messily entangled with Billy Crudup’s Cory Ellison. Will Celine be back for a fifth season?
COTILLARD: You know that I can’t answer that question!
DEADLINE: Ok, let’s put it another way. Would you like Celine to return?
COTILLARD: I really enjoyed playing her. Again, this is how I choose my roles. I want a new adventure. I want something I never did before. How I choose to be part of a project, is when I feel that; that I never explored that side of humanity before.
DEADLINE: It was announced last July that you have been selected for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the Class of 2026. Have you had the ceremony yet?
DEADLINE: Where do you see your career going in the coming years. Do you think you’ll stay in France, or spend more time in the U.S., or move between the two?
COTILLARD: I had this period where I wanted to stay with my kids, and I had the luck to be able to do that. Now they’re bigger and I want to do more movies. I have some amazing projects coming my way.
DEADLINE: Can you talk about any of them?
COTILLARD: I have Nicole Garcia’s Milo, which is shot already, and Job with Yuval Adler, which will shoot at the beginning of next year.
DEADLINE: You’ve also produced in the past, taking credits on the animation Charlotte and activism documentary Bigger Than Us. Do you want to produce more, or even branch into directing?
DEADLINE: Before you hit the red carpet, you’re also renowned for your Cannes outfits. Festival fashion pundits still cite the silver gown you wore for the Annette premiere. Is this a nerve-wracking part of attending the festival or is it second nature for you now?
Source: deadline.com