Marion Cotillard shares how she was manipulated by this male filmmaker at Cannes Film Festival
Marion Cotillard has recently broken her silence on being “manipulated” by her male director during the Cannes Film Festival.
The French actress, who is promoting her new movie, Little Girl Blue, plays the role of Mona Achache’s mother Carole, who was a writer and set photographer.
Following the movie’s premiere at the festival, Marion attended
the press conference where she was asked about a scene for which Mona (the
director and writer of the movie) requested the actress to remain in
character on her “tea break”.
When asked if this is an example of
a “manipulative relationship between filmmaker and star, Marion replied, “I
don’t see a director and an actor as being in relationships of manipulation.
It’s more a collaboration.”
However, the Lady Macbeth actress
told Variety, “It happened to me only once where I felt that I was being
manipulated by a director, and I really didn’t like that.”
Marion, who did not name the male director, revealed that he
made her “believe that their experience would consist of a process of
working together with a collaborative connection”.
But the
actress realised his intention and mentioned that she felt
“uncomfortable”.
“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?’” she recalled.
“And I felt like an
object, and I really hated it,” asserted the actress.
Marion
explained, “I saw right away all the manipulation, and 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,” adding, “with
my personality as a woman, I mean, as a human being, and as an
actress.”
