Marion Cotillard admits that she almost gave up acting when she was twenty seven.
When I was 27 I told my agent I was stopping and going to work for Greenpeace.
The french actress reveals that she as struggling landing parts and was considering throwing in the towel before being cast in Tom Burton's Big Fish.
Speaking to Vogue she said: "The directors I dreamed of were Coppola, Scorsese, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Spielberg because of E.T. I wasn't considered an actress.
"I didn't want to get bitter while waiting for something to happen, so when I was 27, I told my agent I was stopping and going to work for Greenpeace.
"He said, 'Please just have this one meeting'. It was with Tim Burton, for Big Fish, and I got the part."
Since then Cotillard has seen her career soar and she went on to win the Best Actress Oscar in 2007 for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, in which she is superb.
Since then she has gone on to star in Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and Nine with Daniel Day Lewis and Nicole Kidman and returns to the big screen this summer with Inception.
Inception is the first movie for Christopher Nolan since The Dark Night and brings together a great cast of Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Michael Caine.
And she has a sting of movies in the pipeline including Little White Lies, Contagion and Midnight In Paris.
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