Marion Cotillard: "When you are a public figure, people invent things about you"

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"It's not something I really want to talk about right now, but it's clear that when you're a public figure, people who don't know you at all fantasize and make things up about you. But you have to know who you are, not let them Although sometimes

, destabilizing, there is no choice but to accept it, because you cannot go to each person who does not know you, and that you do not know either, to tell them who you really are, "says Marion Cotillard,

settle the subject of the voracious scrutiny to which her private life has been subjected by the French press, since a few months ago the rumor of her separation from Guillaume Canet began to spread.

Canet is the father of her two children -Marcel, 11, Louise, five- and has just directed her as Cleopatra in

, a production of 65 million euros -one of the most expensive in history. of French cinema-, in which the actor and director has reserved the role of the most irreducible of the Gauls.

Over the last few months,

: if she had something with Brad Pitt, if he is a womanizer, if the family home had already been sold, if they were posing with an intermediary for the latter film they have shot together.

"I think that each couple that works in the same medium has their own way of experiencing it, but we continue to support each other," she says, refuting other rumors about possible professional jealousy.

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Her representatives have warned, at the last moment, that she did not want cameras, and the actress with the watery gaze has appeared natural, without makeup, much prettier than if she did it with daubing, or what would be much worse: retouched, which we have already seen the scalpel wreaks havoc.

That is a subject on which she has already spoken on several occasions: she seems sad, but she does not judge, she is 47 years old, and she hopes that her time will not come.

Sober, elegant, in a black sweater and a pleated schoolgirl skirt, she speaks calmly, weighing her words.

She is in a moment of her life in which she also weighs each project, precisely to "

. I am no longer as bulimic as a few years ago, when I chained films one after another."

Last June, he was at the Teatro Real in Madrid with

, then Cleopatra came, who didn't take up much of his time, and now he is presenting these Family Affairs, which involve his reunion with Arnaud Desplechin, a master of autofiction who he already directed it more than 20 years ago, when she simply appeared accredited as "a student".

Although he directed it again much later in

(2017), for which Cotillard created, to the sound of Bob Dylan's

, one of the strangest and most disconcerting dances in film history.

In

He doesn't dance, he sings.

She is a famous singer who hates to the point of fainting the one who was once her soul brother (Melvil Poupaud), a writer dedicated to autofiction, that is to say, to disguising the dirty laundry bucket of any family, as his own. Deplochin.

"My relationship with my brothers is very different. It's a bit of a particular case, because they are twins and two years younger than me, we didn't fully connect until after 20 years or so, and now we have a magnificent relationship. In the The movie is the opposite, they hate each other. I was very interested in understanding why, and I think it's because their parents unconsciously and without malice put them in competition with each other, as if it was the best preparation for this brutally competitive world we live in, when it's clear that it's a very destructive thing."

In real life,

, although there are many things that outrage her, such as "the slow ineffectiveness of governments in the face of the climate change emergency, or the inequality in the salary of women."

Meanwhile, she calmly continues rearranging her life, and carefully taking care of a career that is as eclectic as possible: "for me it is essential to always be doing different things."

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