Now online! The interview with the whole ‘Nine‘ cast & director Rob Marshall as aired on ABC Nightline on December 10, 2009 as well as one outtake and the full transcript of the original unaired interview!

• Full Transcript: Interview With Cast of ‘Nine’

Gallery: 071 Specials > ABC Nightline – 10/12/2009
Video: 001 Talk Shows > Nightline

To promote ‘Le dernier vol‘ Marion Cotillard graces the cover of tomorrow’s Madame Figaro – for the 3rd time this year! Thanks to Mariana I added the scans to the gallery.

• Marion Cotillard, les ailes de la gloire, Madame Figaro, December 12, 2009

006 Madame Figaro (France) – December 12

And another TV Alert Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet will appear on 20 heures, which airs on France 2, on Sunday, December 13, 2009.

I added the scans from the December issues of both the UK and the Japanese Harper’s Bazaar. Many thanks Lorna and Kelly for scanning the features for us!

I also added a transcript of the UK magazine – it’s mostly to promote Beds are burning, but also Nine. It has information about Marion’s engagement for the environment that previously only French publications have written about. Obviously, I don’t understand the Japanese article but it’s to promote ‘Public Enemies‘.

• Siren Song, Harper’s Bazaar (UK), December 2009

[edit:] Links are now working! Sorry, don’t know what had happened!

002 Harper’s Bazaar (UK) – December
006 Harper’s Bazaar (Japan) – December

Lots of ‘Le dernier vol‘ goodies: I added more gorgeous posters and stills to the gallery as well as totally adorable behind the scenes pictures. They’re quite small but lovely nonetheless. Additionally, I added some interviews and background information about the movie to the press archive. This is all in French, so if someone would like to provide translations, you’re very welcome to do so! All of this comes from the French Production Notes, many thanks Nadine for sharing!

Press:
• Entretien avec Marion Cotillard
• Interview Guillaume Canet (French)
• Interview Karim Dridi (French)
• Production Notes (French)

Gallery:
006 Le dernier vol (The Last Flight) – 2009 > Stills
017 Le dernier vol (The Last Flight) – 2009 > On Set
002 Le dernier vol (The Last Flight) – 2009 > Artwork

Vogue has put the Nine article from the upcoming November issue online. There’s not much about Marion, though:

• Prima Time, Vogue (US), November 2009

Finally, I see Marion Cotillard singing “My Husband Makes Movies” while performing a dazzlingly chic striptease. When I talk to her by phone a few weeks later, Marion, who speaks with a delightful French accent, tells me, “It’s been my dream to do an American musical. When I was a child, Annie was my favorite. I just never thought I would get to do it.” Of playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, Cotillard says, “It’s easy to work with such an amazing artist.” Because he was always in character, “it gives an energy to the crew. He creates this desire in everyone to be at their best.”

002 Portraits > Sessions from 2009 > Vogue

Marion Cotillard narrated the forthcoming ‘Voyage sous les mers 3d‘ by the brothers Jean-Jacques & François Mantello. The film opens in French theatres next week, August 26. According to the movie’s official site as of today there will be 4 advanced screenings with the presence of the directors. Not sure, if that’ll include Marion on at least one of the screenings? Maybe she’s too busy shooting ‘Inception‘ (although I think they were only shooting in Paris for 3 days) or she went back to the set of ‘Les Petits Mouchoirs‘ again already.

Anyway, I added the French interview with Marion from the production notes, the video interview from MenStyle.fr, the trailer, the poster as well as a picture of Marion behind the microphone to the media sections.

Maybe someone could provide English translations soon? That’d be awesome. In the meantime a short summary. We learn that Marion was intrigued by the project as soon as she heard about it. She was approached while filming ‘Le dernier vol‘ in the Sahara. She’s done some diving herself and was amazed by the wonders of the ocean. According to her watching ‘Voyage sous les mers 3d‘ will feel like a real dive.

Press Archive:
• La voix du film : Entretien avec Marion Cotillard

Gallery:
001 Voyage sous les mers 3d (OceanWorld 3d) – On Set
001 Voyage sous les mers 3d (OceanWorld 3d) – Artwork
026 Online Interviews > MenStyle.fr – 2009

Video:
002 Voyage sous les mers 3D (Trailer & interview)

This second batch of new interviews consists of French interviews and articles. If anyone has time to translate at least one or two of them that’d be great! This is the last update for a while as I’m leaving town again tomorrow and won’t be with internet access until at least next week.

• Sa Vie en Rose, Le Petit Bulletin, July 7
• Confidences d’une môme qui devient grande, Gala, July 3
• Marion Cotillard, une Môme en plein Sahara, Le Figaro Magazine, July 4
• Marion Cotillard, de retour d’Amérique dans la peau d’une compagne de gangster, La Voix du Nord, July 3
• “Johnny Depp est un vrai gentleman”, Metro, July 2
• Marion Cotillard : l’amour, l’ego et Hollywood, Madame Figaro, June 27

The Sahara article is actually about Figaro Magazine‘s visit to the Le dernier vol set. We learn that the full name of Marion’s character is Marie Vallières de Beaumont.

Marion had an immediate visceral connection with Marie Vallières de Beaumont, this passionate woman who fights to rescue the man she loves to the point of exhaustion and who in the abandonment of the desert discovers a new meaning of life.

Marion Cotillard shares this perfectionism, she’s always extremely focused even for a short scene. The young Oscar winner has lost none of her naturality and simplicity though. Once we see her knitting a scarf for her niece. We’re amused to see her candidly confide her “unhealthy sentimentality” towards animals, including insects. Then the Marion we know is back, one evening she’s singing and dancing, together with a nomadic Berber family who arrived to work as extras on the film. “Like my character, I’ve found a lot more in the desert than I set out for: especially these smiles of the children!”

I added a bunch of new interviews & articles to the press archive:

• Marion Cotillard on Public Enemies, CanMag, July 6
• Comparisons with Angelina a thorn as Marion blooms, Independent.ie, July 5
• Cotillard’s Vie En Roles, California Chronicle, July 4
• Film interview with Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies, The London Paper, July 3
• Marion Cotillard: Public Enemies press conference report, Den of Geek!, July 2
• Cotillard: Every day is magical, AFP, July 2
• Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies Interview, MoviesOnline, July 2
• We Say Oui Oui to Marion Cotillard!, The New York Observer, July 2
• Accent on experience, as Cotillard prepared to play Dillinger’s girl, Chicago Tribune, June 28

Then Lorna sent in some exclusive scans of a UK publication – huge thank you! – and I added also 2 pictures of a French magazine sent in by Paolo:

005 Herald Magazine (UK) – July 4
002 Femina (France) – July 5

Finally! ‘Public Enemies‘ can be seen in US theatres as of today! Be sure to head out and watch Marion’s first movie since ‘La Vie en Rose‘ (2007). The movie will open in the UK July 3, in France July 8, in Australia July 30, and in Germany August 6 (see more dates).

Check out the many features on the movie’s official site! And read some new interviews:

• Stormy role’s French twist, Journal Sentinel, June 27
• Marion Cotillard is ready for her close-ups, Twincities.com, June 30

Next, Marion Cotillard’s scheduled to promote ‘Public Enemies‘ in her home country France. First, she’ll attend the movie’s premiere in Paris tomororrow.

On Friday she’s the star guest of Radio RTL. In the morning (9.00-9.30 am) she’ll be interviewed during a programm called Laissez-vous tenter and in the afternoon she’ll participate in the programme La tête dans les étoiles together with Laurent Boyer. And in the evening there will be a screening of the movie in Lyon.

As previously announced, there’ll be a TV interview titled Marion Cotillard, la rencontre (20 minutes) airing on Canal+, Sunday 11.55 am.

I’m in and out of town this and next week but I’ll try to update the site as much as possible.

I have been working behind the scenes these past few days getting new material prepared and ready to upload to the site – so stay tuned!

Until then why don’t you read the interviews I added to the press archive:

• Tales from the red carpet, Chicago Now, June 18
• Accent was welcome task for Marion Cotillard, The Associated Press, June 23
• Marion Cotillard On The Complex Secrets Of ‘Inception’, MTV Blog, June 24
• Just a Minute With: French actress Marion Cotillard, Reuters, June 25