In just little over two weeks, on April 15, ‘Little White Lies‘ (Les petits mouchoirs) will open in the UK. A number of publications have published new interviews with Marion Cotillard – conducted in Paris last December – to promote the movie. By the way, how interesting that one of the publications is actually really called ‘Little White Lies’! I added scans and transcripts – enjoy!

• Style Statement, Vogue India, March (Lady Dior Promo)
• Runaway Train, Little White Lies, March/April
• “I admired Greta Garbo, but I wanted to be Peter Sellers”, Empire, April
• Marion Cotillard, Dazed & Confused, April
• French Fancy, Total Film, May

001 Scans from 2011 > Vogue (India) – March
002 Scans from 2011 > Little White Lies (UK) – March/April
003 Scans from 2011 > Empire (UK) – April
001 Scans from 2011 > Dazed & Confused (UK) – April
007 Scans from 2011 > Total Film (UK) – May

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

Once again Marion Cotillard is on the cover of French Elle. The 8 page feature with a brand new photoshoot looks really great! I can’t wait to pick up the issue and scan it. Here’s the feature on the Elle Website.

• Marion pleine de grâce, Elle, Octobre 15

007 Sessions from 2010 > Elle (2)

Many thanks Miss Grain from Zhang Ziyi Infos for the scans of last week’s issue of Femina. It’s mostly an interview by François Cluzet with Guillaume Canet. But there’s a gorgeous new photo of the cast as well as some lovely on set pictures. Read the interview on Femina.fr.

Marion Cotillard is featured on the cover of this week’s Styles – sold together with L’Express Magazine. While the cover is an old picture (BlackBook June/July 2009) the inside picture is new and looks like yet another Chopard Photoshoot. The interview is brand-new and interesting (thanks Nadine for the transcript). She talks about how Guillaume Canet is a very talented director. He always finds the right words to voice what he wants from his actors. Also about the personal issues of Marie, her character in Les petits mouchoirs as well as about her search for simplicity in her personal life. She doesn’t want to play a character in her everyday life anymore and is surprised when she looks at pictures of her from 10 years ago when she was wearing much more make-up etc. She also mentions the project by director David Cronenberg [Cosmopolis]: nothing’s signed but she keeps dreaming of starring in the movie.

• Marion Cotillard “J’aspire à l’essentiel”, L’Express Styles, October 13

005 Scans from 2010 > Femina (France) – October 6, thanks to Miss Grain
004 Scans from 2010 > L’Express Styles (France) – October 13

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

The original source for the recent news about Marion’s upcoming performances in Jeanne au bûcher posted their article online today. There’s not much more information in it, but they list famous actresses who’ve previously played this part since it’s first staging back in May 1939 in Orléans.

However, they forgot to mention some interesting inside information. Back in 1992 Marion’s parents Niseema Theillaud and Jean-Claude Cotillard took on the parts of Jeanne and her brother Dominique when this oratorio was staged in a cathedral in Orléans, while a 17 year old Marion watched in the audience.

When director Jean-Marc Cochereau approached Niseema Theillaud 12 years later for the same part she declined and suggested her daughter Marion. Marion immediately accepted since she’d wanted to work with him for a long time. After accepting the part she had it stipulated in any filming contracts that she’d get a week off for rehearsals and performing in Jeanne au bûcher. She enjoyed working with the orchestra and doing theatre for the first time since her final piece at the Conservatoire d’Orléans in 1994.

Finally, on May 5 and 6, 2005 she played Jeanne opposite Christophe Maltot’s Dominique along with 265 singers and musicians of the Orchestre symphonique d’Orléans. Director Jean-Marc Cochereau remembers that her performance was strikingly sincere, that she played Jeanne d’Arc with what is her talent: the ability to convey immense emotion. The director of the Orchestre symphonique d’Orléans Catherine Mounier recalls that the 3 000 visitors in the sports centre still remember the performance. As do the singers and musicians who took part in those 2 concerts. By accepting the role, Marion Cotillard made them a very beautiful gift, she added.

Sources:
• Marion Cotillard, une fille toute simple, Loiret.com, July 13, 2005
• De Jeanne d’Arc à la Môme, Le Point, March 27, 2008

Coming down with something like the flu made me rewatch some old Marion interviews and I realized that there were 3 more La Vie en Rose interviews missing in the video archive – ‘Luch with David’ actually being my favourite Marion interview ever! Enjoy!

Gallery:
279 Online Interviews > ZDF.de – 2007
574 Online Interviews > Lunch with David – 2007

Video:
003 Interviews > La Vie en Rose

Earlier this week I added HQ scans of the August Interview issue – including the full interview. I also added scans sent in by Kelly and Mariana. Many thanks for these!

• Marion Cotillard, by Nicole Kidman, Interview, August 2010

001 Le Figaro Magazine (France) – July 17, by Mariana
003 A (Italy) – July 22, by Kelly
003 Envy (France) – July 29, by Kelly
015 Interview (US) – August

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

Today I finished what I set out to do over a year ago! I transferred all video clips from the old to the new video archive – bringing the total count in the new archive to 250. There’s nothing really new except 2 videos: Cinema.nl – Interview and CBS News – 2007/06/17.

To simplify the url to the gallery now that the old video archive has become redundant I moved the whole gallery installation to the root of marion-media.org. All links to the gallery here on the main site have been successfully updated! Except those in the old section of the site which are still pointing to the very first gallery installation. In due time, they too, should get updated.

Marion Cotillard is on the cover of French Elle this week. The pictures definitely have a retro as well as summer feeling to it, and of course Marion looks divine! It’s just a pity that they included ‘only’ 3 pictures.

• Marion Cotillard : C’est glamour à la plage, Elle, July 16

I also added a few more text interviews and articles to the press section earlier today – as always translations into English would be warmly welcomed:

• Inception: Marion Cotillard interview, Telegraph, July 12
• The Cast of Inception on The Buzziest Movie of the Summer, Film.com, July 14
• Marion Cotillard finds her inner Yank for Inception, Straight.ca, July 15
• Marion Cotillard, l’exception d’Inception, La Presse, July 16
• Marion Cotillard : «Je ne me vois pas comme une star», Le Figaro, July 19

005 Scans from 2010 > Elle (France) – July 16

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.

Marion Cotillard is on the cover of the August issue of Interview magazine. The photoshoot is very dreamy, sensual and just breathtaking! The interview was conducted over the phone by Nicole Kidman and is definitely one of the most informative Marion interviews in the English language. She talks about her work with Greenpeace in Congo, her love for the environment, searching for answers, dreams and her work with Yodelice. Read it on the magazine’s website

• Marion Cotillard, Interview, August 2010

001 Scans from 2010 > Interview (US) – August
011 Sessions from 2010 > Interview

I added scans of the two French magazines currently featuring Marion Cotillard on the cover. Both magazines used pictures from the same portrait session.

Here are the links to the French interviews:
• Marion, la méga star, Elle, February 12, 2010
• Marion Cotillard la belle Américaine, Paris Match, February 18

007 Scans from 2010 > Elle (France) – February 12
009 Scans from 2010 > Paris Match (France) – February 18-24

Kindly do not redistribute these scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were obtained/donated exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.