Marion Cotillard 'screwed up' Dark Knight Rises death scene
Marion Cotillard is convinced she "screwed up" her death scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' - admitting she "didn't nail" it and felt "stressed" over the sequence.
Marion Cotillard is convinced she "screwed up" her death scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
The 49-year-old actress played Talia al Ghul - daughter of 'Batman Begins' baddie Ra’s al Ghul who was played by Liam Neeson - in the third instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy 'The Dark Knight Rises' and her character was seen being chased through Gotham City before being killed off by the Caped Crusader when her truck crashes and she uses her last breath to declare: "My father’s work is done".
However, Marion feels she didn't get 'The Dark Knight Rises' scene right. In an interview on TV show 'Les Rencontres du Papotin', she was asked: "You die quite implausibly, don’t you?"
The actress the replied: "I agree with you. I didn’t nail that scene. I didn’t find the right position. I didn’t find the right way … I was stressed. Sometimes it happens that you screw something up. So that, I screwed up."
Marion previously admitted 'The Dark Knight Rises' death scene felt like a failure during an interview with Allociné in 2026, saying: "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."
However, she insisted she wasn't going to take it to heart because it's important to be able to laugh about past failures. She added: "It’s important to know how to laugh about this, and also, there are worse things in life".
Marion's confession comes after Guy Pearce admitted he felt embarrassed by his performance in Nolan's 2000 thriller 'Memento'.
He told The Times newspaper: "I’m having an existential crisis. I watched ‘Memento’ the other day and I’m still depressed. I’m s*** in that movie.
"I’d never thought that before, but I did this Q A of ‘Memento’ earlier this month and decided to actually watch the film again.
"But while it was playing I saw that I hate what I did. And so all this stuff about an exec at Warners being why I’ve not worked with Chris again? It came crashing down. I know why I didn’t work with Chris again - it’s because I’m no good in ‘Memento.’"
Guy previously claimed that he had never worked with Nolan since 'Memento' because an unnamed Warner Bros executive didn't like him.
He told Vanity Fair magazine: "He spoke to me about roles a few times over the years. The first 'Batman' and 'The Prestige'.
"But there was an executive at Warner Bros who quite openly said to my agent, ‘I don’t get Guy Pearce. I’m never going to get Guy Pearce.
"I’m never going to employ Guy Pearce.' So, in a way, that’s good to know. I mean, fair enough: there are some actors I don’t get. But it meant I could never work with Chris."
