Even the best are not immune to error. Marion Cotillard is well placed to know. The Oscar-winning actress for her tremendous performance in The kid, is not proud of all the films in which she has shown herself. One of them concerns Guillaume Canet. In Last flight, released in 2009, Marion Cotillard gave him the reply. And obviously, this collaboration is not the one she wants to remember.
During a round table organized in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter, Marion Cotillard had returned to this very bad experience. His partner at the time had nothing to do with it. According to the actress, the big problem was none other than director Karim Dridi: “He was bad, bad, bad, the actress recalls. He had no idea what he wanted to doshe said. I spent two months in the desert [le film se déroulait dans le Sahara, ndlr] to want to kill him.” She even claimed to have prepared a speech in case the Gérards [cérémonie satirique récompensant le pire de la télé et du cinéma, ndlr] would reward her.
Far from being indifferent to the words of the actress he had chosen, Karim Dridi had defended himself. And faced with the rather lively attacks of Marion Cotillard, the filmmaker had not taken the tweezers. In 2013 in South WestKarim Dridi did not mince his words: “Why didn’t Marion Cotillard say what was on her heart when the film was released in 2009? When I hear her say today that she can’t be good when she doesn’t like the director, I’m flabbergasted. If she’s not a pro, then return the check for $1 million for the eight weeks of filming she was given.“
The story does not say if Marion Cotillard returned the money, but Karim Dridi did not stop there, delivering the coup de grace concerning the actress a little later: “She will also have to learn to die.“As a reminder, the 47-year-old actress had long been the subject of mockery on the Web after her not really successful death scene in Batman, The Dark Knight Rises. Marion Cotillard had not contradicted everyone’s opinions: “When I do the best I can to find the authenticity in each character, to see myself reduced to a scene, it’s not necessarily super pleasant. Afterwards, you have to know how to laugh at everything.” She will no longer laugh at everything with Karim Dridi in any case.