AnOther Magazine have put up exclusive content of their new Summer/Spring 2010 issue featuring Marion Cotillard on the cover up on their website. Very interesting is the behind the scenes video of Marion’s “Fashion Performance” – very much in context with the issue’s title Power of Performance.

Inspired by her powerful and chameleon-like portrayals, we decided to cast Marion Cotillard in our very own Fashion Performance. The current Lady Dior proved to the world she was master of both film and fashion when she elegantly carried off that Jean Paul Gaultier mermaid dress on the night she won Best Actress for her role as Édith Piaf. We looked to the work of the 1960s Fluxus movement to inform this one-off performance, full of intriguing yet unexplained meanings. In AnOther Magazine 18 the narrative continues in an interview, where Cotillard reveals her heroes, her passions, and the contents of her handbag.

And this is what editor in chief Jefferson Hack says about Marion:

Everyone fell in love with her on the shoot. As an actress, Marion Cotillard is the consummate performer. A dream to work with — almost too good to be true.
• source: T Magazine Blog

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062 Behind the Scenes > 2010 – AnOther Magazine

Marion Cotillard graces the cover of the new French Elle magazine – on newsstands since yesterday. Until I have time to add the actual scans of the magazines itself enjoy the portrait session of the pictures featured in the magazine and enjoy the article.

Noteworthy facts for non-French speakers: Marion Cotillard likened the 2-month rehearsals for ‘Nine‘ to Star Academy and Fame, she refused to campaign for an Oscar nomination this year and is still thinking about recording an album – with songs written by herself. But she’d need the right people to help her with it.

• Marion, la méga star, Elle, February 12, 2010

Thank you Nadine for the heads up that on February 18, 2010, 3.30pm Marion Cotillard will also be the guest on Michel Drucker’s radio show Studio Europe 1 during the ‘Nine‘ special.

028 Sessions from 2010 > Elle

Guess what else Marion Cotillard did last Saturday: looking gorgeous and dancing on a photoshoot for the March cover of French magazine Jalouse. The photoshoot was last Saturday in Los Angeles.

Gallery: 014 Portraits > Behind the Scenes > 2010 – Jalouse
Video: 001 Magazines & Photoshoots > Jalouse – March 2010

While I’ve been busy behind the scenes to bring you soon lots of Marion goodies, nickufan sent in a gorgeous portrait session taken June 20, 2009 in Chicago. Many thanks & enjoy!

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I’m sorry for the lack of updates but I’ve been in bed with a serious case of flu since Tuesday.

To start with I added some articles and interviews to the press archive:

• Cotillard has right number in ‘Nine’
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Fergie and Marion Cotillard live life Italian-style in ‘Nine’
• There’s perfect harmony among the six actresses in ‘Nine’

No, we didn’t get a second trailer, but Vogue has published the behind the scenes video for the November issue. Watch as Marion, Penélope, Nicole & Kate enjoy themselves during the shoot and laughing with photographer Annie Leibovitz despite fresh temperatures. There are also little soundbites from each one about their role in the movie. And there’s a new ‘Nine‘ movie still featuring Marion.

What I like best about the cover – the background of Malibu beach – is really the perfect backdrop for this shoot and the sea together with the rocks and the lovely sunlight is again what makes this video so absolutely charming – apart from the fact that (unlike the cover) it’s full of life & charm from the 4 leading ladies. Let’s hope for outtakes in other magazines soon!

Gallery: 070 Behind the Scenes > 2009 – Vogue
Video: 001 Magazines, Photoshoots – Vogue Diaries November 2009

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

I uploaded the (probably) full portrait session, of which pictures first appeared in UK’s Telegraph Magazine – later other photos from the shoot also appeared in Femina, Télé 2 Semaines and Le Vif Weekend. Some of the pics are tagged but I’m sure you’ll enjoy looking at this absolutely gorgeous photo shoot as much as I!

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Marion Cotillard is also featured in the July issues of US magazines GQ and InStyle.

Preview the stunning InStyle pictures here. I’m pretty sure that this is the previously mentioned Moroccan photoshoot.

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How Marion Cotillard went from a subtitled French bio-pic about Edith Piaf to starring as Johnny Depp’s moll in ‘Public Enemies’

One way to gauge the seriousness of any newly minted star is to watch what he or she does with all the attention. Two days after accepting an Oscar for her shape-shifting turn as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose—and delivering a speech so adorably gracious it could bump Sally Field from the official Oscar highlight reel—Marion Cotillard ditched the warm glow of Hollywood for a snowbound place where no one cared: a Menominee reservation in Wisconsin, to research her role as John Dillinger’s girl in this month’s gangster bio Public Enemies. The 33-year-old never asked the tribeswomen if they’d seen the Oscars or La Vie en Rose, in which Cotillard conjures Piaf’s fragility and ferocity so unnervingly, even regular Joes were drawn to the subtitled film. She brings the same nuance and energy to Billie Frechette, who was part Menominee, part French, and 100 percent aware of the company she kept. “She knew exactly what she was involved in,” Cotillard says of Frechette, who was married to a convicted robber when she took up with gentleman gangster Dillinger, “but what can you do against love?”

While I’m awaiting the arrival of my own copy of the new BlackBook Magazine that my friend in the US is buying for me the magazine’s website released the very interesting interview with Marion Cotillard and the pictures from the inside of the magazine. I’ve added those and some outtakes to the site’s gallery. Merci Marion-Cotillard.fr for the info on how to find them.

The New York photo shoot took place May 5, the day after the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Be sure to read this very insightful interview.

• Bonjour! Marion Cotillard on Conspiracies, Public Enemies, & Childhood

011 Sessions from 2009 > BlackBook Magazine