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In a2023 Cannes Film Festivalinterview withVarietyabout her new movieLittle Girl Blue,Cotillard, 47, described her on-set experience.
“I thought: ‘Is he manipulating me because he thinks that I’m going to be unable to give him what he needs, what he wants, if he doesn’t act this way?' " Cotillard recalled of the experience. “And I felt like an object, and I really hated it.”
TheOscarwinner added that she “saw right away all the manipulation” and did not approve of the unnamed director’s tactics.
“…I had the judgement that it was kind of dumb that you can’t ask me to do things without trying to use ways of manipulation that really don’t work with me, with my personality as a woman, I mean, as a human being, and as an actress," she toldVariety.
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“After her mother’s death, Mona Achache discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma,” reads anofficial synopsisfor the movie. “Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation, she brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.”
Cotillard, known for her roles inLa Vie En Rose,InceptionandMidnight in Paris, portrays Carole Achache in the movie as the late photographer and writer’s daughter Mona seeks to recreate her mother’s life.
The 2023 Cannes Film Festival runs through May 27 in Cannes, France.
source: people.com
