MARION COTILLARD - COTILLARD DISTURBED BY 'DESTROYED' PIAF

Oscar-nominated French actress MARION COTILLARD feared she'd taken on too much when she started to study photographs of a "destroyed" EDITH PIAF while researching her role as the singer. Cotillard was initially thrilled to land the role of the tragic performer in La Vie En Rose, but quickly realised the transformation to Piaf would not be an easy one. She explains, "When I started to discover her life, and saw that she was only 47 at her death, I couldn't believe it based on all the photographs I had seen - she looked 70 years old. "When I first prepared for the role, I was not sure I could play someone who, through the tragedy of her life, looked so shocking and destroyed."