In the family of Marion Cotillard, we ask Guillaume Canet, the father of his two children, Louise, 5 years old and Marcel, 11 years old, but also Guillaume and Quentin, his 44-year-old twin brothers, his father Jean-Claude Cotillard and his mother, actress Niseema Theillaud . The star of Charlottean animated film retracing the career of a young artist in wartime, to whom she lends her voice, mentioned her mother as rarely in an interview with The Obs. The 47-year-old actress said that a complicated childhood was often due, unconsciously, to that which parents and grandparents themselves experienced.
“Trauma is transmitted. We educate our children with those we carry. We perpetuate them. We generate fears and pathologies. The more we heal our wounds, the more we offload them“said Marion Cotillard. The Chanel muse is well placed to know this, her mother whose mother did not have an easy childhood. Niseema Theillaud was a battered child. A tragedy that she managed to overcome since her own children have been spared the violence.
It is partly for this reason that Marion Cotillard considers her mother a heroine: “I deeply admire my mother, her psych clean-up ‘work’, the healing journey she embarked on as soon as she had us. She lived an ultra-violent childhood but she found the courage – where, I don’t know but I find it very beautiful – to face what she was imbued with so that we don’t inherit it. She protected us.“
What about the relationship between Marion Cotillard and her two children? The actress consecrated for her role in The kid had already mentioned his role with them and his desire to leave them free: “My children have the right to reject me, not to love me, and if that were to happen, I would be happy if they told me, because that would allow me to move forward, she told Gala. I move forward with them. They are my masters, I am their guide and a source of love.“A love far from being cinema!