Culture news She was ridiculed in this Batman movie. Years later, she returned to Christopher Nolan’s trilogy
Acting careers are full of ups and downs. But in this Batman film directed by Christopher Nolan, it’s a big – big – low for this French woman. She returned to the subject.
If I tell you “the most ridiculous death in cinema”, what do you think of? Most of you probably answered in unison: Marion Cotillard, in Batman The Dark Knight Rises! This is the conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s – Oppenheimer – trilogy dedicated to the famous Dark Knight. In this one: the actress is Talia Al Ghul, daughter of the Bat’s mentor and later adversary, Ra’s al Ghul. But, in a chase that goes wrong, the protagonist is killed… A death that will mark the public, but not for the right reasons. In a tirade in which she evokes her father’s now completed work, Talia Al Ghul, the Cotillard version, dies away, let’s say awkwardly.
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A scene, let’s say, striking
“It’s certainly the most ridiculous death in the history of cinema,” says an Internet user, under the famous extract posted on YouTube. A shadow on the track record of Marion Cotillard, then at the peak of her career… Five before Batman Dark Knight Rises, in 2007, the actress achieved international recognition for her role as Édith Piaf in La Môme. After that, everyone is crazy about it – including Christopher Nolan on Inception! It was two years later that she arrived on the set of Batman.
But how did Marion Cotillard experience this episode? In 2016, in an interview given to Allociné (and spotted by Gentside), she explains that she found the reactions disproportionate. “It’s hard to see yourself summed up as that” – she confides. “When I do my best to find authenticity in each character, seeing themselves summarized in one scene, it’s not necessarily very pleasant.” Despite everything, the actress affirms that she was not “at the end of her rope” and that it feels “good to say it”.
Christopher Nolan’s fault?
However, there is reason to question the very choice of the director, Christopher Nolan! Because after all, why did you keep this take and not another? Unfortunately: to date, this question remains unanswered… In any case, if there was tension between the filmmaker and Marion Cotillard, it seems to be in the past. On the occasion of the “César 2024,” Nolan received an honorary prize from the hands of the actress. On stage, she speaks of the director as “one of the greatest magicians of the seventh art”.
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