Elle. Seeing you, it seems that motherhood has totally blown you?
Marion Cotillard. I am actually completely appeased by motherhood. I was not particularly stressed before, but I saw a great fullness, a real joy.
Elle. The small inconveniences of the post-pregnancy does not disturb you?
MC. No, quite the contrary. It is curious, but all of a sudden, there was a total acceptance. The body, for example, it is as if all my complex were gone. It relaxes me enough! It happened when my body started to change with pregnancy. Something made sense. And I found myself having the same words that pregnant women or with children.
Elle. That is to say?
MC. Things like “All of a sudden, we know why we are here,” for example. In my life, I felt moments of intense pleasure or joy provided by shootings or major events, but which disappear when the experiment ended. With motherhood, I feel pure happiness and timeless.
Elle. This is the idea that we are here to give life?
MC. There is something miraculous to be connected to all those women who, through the centuries have experienced the same thing … or who will one day live.
Elle. Do you also that you need to be loved and accepted will be sated differently?
MC. Yes, I think the priorities are the same, and I hope I will be less in this condition. I say disease, even if the word is a bit much. We share it all in this business and it is not necessarily fulfilling. The desire to be looked at creating a kind of unhealthy desire that never really satiated because it does not fill you inside. When I see everything that happens in this business, and I see that this need is still there, I wonder.
Elle. You will also work with James Gray, one of your other favorite directors …
MC This is a period film, “Low Life” in which I play the role of a Polish woman who emigrated to the United States with her sister. Joaquin Phoenix plays well. I dreamed of working with them. It is also for me to return to a central character which tells the story from beginning to end. I was very happy in recent years, to walk in the world of very talented directors, sometimes through small stakes, but I still need to carry a story on my shoulders. I also have some very exciting projects in France, but at the moment, nothing is confirmed yet. And I have a small stake in Soderbergh’s film “Contagion”. This director is an amazing type, he does everything on a plate, even the frame and the lights. It was a great experience.
Elle. And have you ever thought to make yourself a film?
MC. I’ve always said I would make one a day. I have about two years, but I must take time to devote myself to writing and meet the right people for the ride. In fact, it’s a project so ambitious that I do not know if I will also bring myself, but I’m sure he will come. I will do it may be made by someone else.
Elle. Guillaume Canet?
MC. Why not? (Laughter.)
Elle. Your father said in an interview: “Marion is what it is, because it did not go to the end of the world, but she went after itself. “What do you think?
MC. When it is vital for me, it’s true that I am after. But not everything I do. For example, at the knitting scarves I make mad, crazy with points, but I still do not make enlargements, not sweaters. (Laughter.) But I still have time before me to pass it.
Elle. Among other talents, you are a musician …
MC. I play piano because I took lessons when I was little. But I do not consider myself a musician, because I know that we must work hard to tell musician. Maxim Nucci, alias Yodelice, pushing me to develop this part of me. I thought I could write songs, but Maxim asked me to leave two weeks to try. And it gave ideas that need to be reworked and which I hope will one day form a more successful, I can deliver to the public. Music plays a big part of my life. And adventure with Yodelice concerts in which I played the bass under the pseudonym Simone, was extraordinary.
Elle. Do you submit your creativity to your son?
MC. In any case, I want to send the foundation I was given, namely, respect, freedom and creativity.
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