The first thing that strikes me is the voice. A voice that I have often heard ranting in Call my agent!; a voice full of emotion when speaking to Matt Damon in the film The girl from Stillwater; a soft, warm-toned voice as she talks to me now. Looking at her, I wonder: can she also sing? She smiles and hums Johnny, Johnny … An 80s hit by Jeanne Mas about a finished love story.
Camille Cottin singer? It would be crazy, but why not? Everything in his career has something extraordinary. Only ten years ago it was unknown to the public. Today he passes with ease from the small to the big screen, from comedy to drama; worked with stars of the caliber of Fabrice Luchini (The Henri Pick Mystery) and with director Christophe Honoré (The hotel of lost loves). Ridley Scott directed it in the highly anticipated House of Gucci, arriving in Italian cinemas on December 16: Cottin plays the role of Paola Franchi, the rival of Maurizio Gucci’s wife Patrizia Reggiani, played respectively by Adam Driver and Lady Gaga.
Camille Cottin in the film House of Gucci, arriving in cinemas on December 16.
Together with Omar Sy and Léa Seydoux, Cottin is today among the actresses who best represent France overseas. The international press contends for it: on the pages of Wall Street Journal remembers his Parisian childhood; on the New Yorker she confesses her failures when she was an English teacher. Yet, acting in English is easy for her: due to her parents’ work commitments – her stepfather was a financial analyst and her mother ran a theater company – she lived in London from 12 until graduation, and then returned to Paris. But how did you come to be an actress? Talent, luck, word of mouth. Sometimes all three.
In 2013, producer Priscilla Bertin, co-founder of Silex Films, was looking for an actress to play a selfish and unpleasant Parisian for a series not surprisingly entitled Bitch (an equivalent of our bitch, ed). A friend recommends a stranger to her with a very particular voice and face: she was love at first sight. «The people of Canal + called me to say: ‘Who is this fantastic actress?’», Says Bertin. Shot with a hidden camera, the series presents the stereotype of a snobbish and arrogant Parisian, who moves in different contexts in front of people unaware that she is an actress. Among the 70 two-minute sketches, Cottin’s favorite is the one in which she pretends to be pregnant, with a balloon under her sweater, to skip the taxi queue.
The series is so successful that in 2015 it is turned into a film: Bitch, princess of hearts, by Éloïse Lang and Noémie Saglio, earned Cottin a nomination for Best Female Promise at the 2016 César Award. Yet, when you have been successful in a certain role, the hardest thing is to distance yourself from it. Cottin is aware that French audiences, especially when it comes to comedy, are quick to classify actors and actresses into certain categories. That’s why, in 2015, before accepting the part in the series Call my agent!, she consulted with her own agent, Laurent Grégoire, if it was appropriate to return to TV. Of course, the proposal was intriguing: it was about playing Andréa Martel, a combative and passionate agent alongside guest stars of the caliber of Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci, Isabelle Adjani, Juliette Binoche and Cécile de France, just to name a few.
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