Movies The day Marion Cotillard's marital stability faltered
Making it big in Hollywood isn't easy, and there are certain
shortcuts
a young, unknown performer can take to become
famous almost overnight.
One of the oldest and most effective tricks is to
start a romantic relationship
with an
established star
and thus become a familiar face to the general public without having to release a movie.
Almost no one wants to admit
that she has resorted to this strategy, but
Marion Cotillard
(46) has had no problem admitting in an interview with the newspaper
Le Monde
that
she was forced
to star in a
false love story
with an American actor
whose name she has not wanted to reveal
When in 2008 she began promoting Edith Piaf's biopic
Life in Pink
in the run up to the Oscars, the Frenchwoman went to several
meetings with different executives
from the movie mecca who advised her to
let herself be seen with a famous actor
.
Cotillard had already shot two films in the United States (
Public Enemies
, with Johnny Depp, and
Nine
, with Daniel Day-Lewis), but she was not yet known in America.
It was not easy for a French film starring a French actress to win an Oscar, but not impossible.
The distributor of
La vida en rosa
gave
Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz as examples
.
The French actress, with her Oscar for her role in the biopic of Edith Piaf.GTRES
After the film's premiere in the United States in June 2007, Cotillard immersed herself in a
multi-month tour of
the country that ended in February 2008 with the
Oscar for best actress
in her hands.
To facilitate her immersion in the American market, they suggested that
she invent a relationship with a famous person
.
"They tried to introduce me to several actors not to make a movie together, but to get attention.
If I was paired with a well-known American actor it would cause more interest,
they told me. There were several encounters where I did not understand what was going on but in the end I ended up going to one of those appointments", he told the newspaper
Le Monde
in an interview .
Cotillard accepted the proposal but was
very honest
with her new
boyfriend
: she told him that she
had a real one
whom she was not going to leave.
In the end, the maneuver paid off because she ended up
taking the coveted golden statuette
, but Cotillard insists that the other party
also benefited from her agreement
because she was the "new girl" and exotic.
The actress did not want to give names about the
actor who helped her settle in the United States
, but on the internet you can still find some
articles from that time
that echoed the alleged date she had had
with Johnny Depp
and the way in which
that the two were flirting on set when they worked together on the movie
Public Enemies.
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