Marion Cotillard Talks About Her Death Scene In Dark Knight Rises

Marion Cotillard looks back on The Dark Knight Rises

Marion Cotillard is a very well regarded actress who has a new movie out with Brad Pitt, Allied and is in the Assassin’s Creed movie with Michael Fassbender which comes out December 21st.

Comic book movie fans probably know Marion Cotillard best for her performance as Talia Al Ghul in the final chapter in Christopher’s Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. I think most people don’t have a problem with her performance through most of the movie, but her death scene get a lot of negative response for being very awkward to the point where it’s still brought up to this day years later. You can see the scene below for a refresher:

And in fact, she was asked it about it yet again while out promoting Allied. Cotillard said it’s important to be able to just laugh about it:

"We’re all in the same boat, and if sometimes it gets out of control, then everyone is involved. Sometimes there are failures, and when you see this on screen, you’re thinking: ‘Why? Why did they keep that take?’ But either you blame everyone or nobody. But I thought people overreacted, because it was tough to be identified just with this scene. When I’m doing the best I can to find the authenticity in every character that I’m playing, it’s tough to be known just for this scene.Yes, it’s important to know how to laugh about this, and also, there are worse things in life. Even if there are things that can hurt you. But I wasn’t really affected by this. I just though the reaction was disproportionate, and it helps to laugh about it."

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I mean, yeah it was a bad scene but it’s dumb that people are still bugging her about it. Actors and actresses alike have plenty of bad scenes throughout their career, the usually don’t get dogged about it years later. You can see Marion Cotillard in Allied in theaters now and in the movie adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed December 21st.

h/t Comicbook.com