Watch: 53-Minute Talk With Marion Cotillard About Working With The Dardennes, Her Desire To Do Comedy & Much More

It’s not enough to say that Marion Cotillard disappears into the roles she plays, she practically loses herself in them. Her level of dedication is that intimidating. The actress’ sense of passionate commitment has subsequently resulted in some of the most emotionally wrenching performances of the last couple of years. Cotillard, somehow, managed to effortlessly become Edith Piaf in Olivier Dahan’s “La Vie En Rose,” and she also fearlessly took on the role of a whale trainer who loses her legs in a freak accident—a part that might have been a disaster in a lesser performer’s hands—in Jacques Audiard’s “Rust and Bone.” She’s being rightly recognized for her superlative work this year in two very different films: James Gray’s great, underrated “The Immigrant,” where she plays the sad-eyed Polish immigrant of the film’s title—one who falls under the shadowy wing of Joaquin Phoenix’s tortured showman—and also the latest from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “Two Days, One Night.” The...