Marion Cotillard On #MeToo: As A Young Actress, “I Was In Situations That I Shouldn’t Have Been In… We Still Have A Long Way To Go” – Cannes
deadline.comMarion Cotillard is encouraged by the progress made by the #MeToo movement, but believes, “We still have a long way to go.” The Oscar winner stopped by the American Pavilion in Cannes today to chat with me about her latest film, Little Girl Blue, which is an Official Selection Special Screening here at the festival and which deals with themes of sexual abuse.
Director Mona Achache plays herself in the film, a woman trying to understand why her mother committed suicide and who discovers a stash of thousands of letters and photographs that provide insight into a person she doesn’t recognize.
Enter Cotillard, as herself, taking on the role of the mother and bringing her, in a way, back to life in order to retrace her journey.
Cotillard said she felt very close to these women because, “a lot of women in this world had experienced this relationship to men.
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