Earlier this week Variety reported that ‘Ondine‘ is set to start shooting in West Cork, Ireland this July now that financing and main cast have been set. Who’s playing the title character? The girl caught in the fishernet thought to be a mythological sea nymph (Ondine)? Not Marion Cotillard but newcomer Alicja Bachleda.

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• Variety writes about ‘Last Flight’, posted on May 15, 2008
• Globe nominee Cotillard has rosy future, posted on December 14, 2007

Hi Maria

Thanks for this. I only read about Marion supposedly being linked to this project about two weeks ago. So I wasn’t too sure how accurate the news was.

If this part was good for a “newcomer”, then it was not good for an academy award winner !

She probably wouldn’t have had time to do it anyway. Rehearsals for “Nine” start in July too.

Awww, I wanted her to do this one. Marion would’ve made a prettier mermaid that whoever her name is.

This is the story that Audrey Hepburn played in Broadway in 1954 (she was the so-called mermaid) and she won the Tony for it. That same year she got the Oscar for Roman Holiday.

But maybe Marion has another role.