\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div> \t\t\t\t\tMarion Cotillard with Billy Crudup in The Morning Show <\/em>season four, episode four, \u201cLove the Questions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV+<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tWe will eventually get insight into Celine\u2019s vulnerabilities, but in these first episodes, she comes in exuding power, from everything she\u2019s wearing to how she speaks. Charlotte said that from the beginning, you two had strong conversations about European dynasty families where the sons are elevated over the daughters. Where or who did you take inspiration from to play her?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBefore knowing that I would be part of the show, I had read this very interesting book written by two French journalists about wealthy French families and their succession. That\u2019s the conversation I had with Charlotte, because I thought, \u201cIf I had to prepare this role, I would have read this book,\u201d\u00a0and there were actually two books by then, and to see the mechanism of raising a successor was very interesting. As you said, most of the successors are male \u2014\u00a0even if they have siblings who are sisters, they will always go for the male. So it\u2019s interesting in those stories about those wealthy families and companies to see how a woman will navigate, and what she will want to achieve and prove to her family.<\/p>\n \n\tThere\u2019s this very interesting kind of fight between brothers and sisters because, why wouldn\u2019t it be the daughter? It\u2019s not natural for those big, powerful \u2014\u00a0most of them male \u2014 to have a successor that would be a female. So that was very, very interesting for me to explore and study those families throughout those books.<\/p>\n \n\tHow does Celine really feel about women and progress? Is she an ally, as so many of the characters proclaim to be, or is she self-serving?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI think she admires Alex [Jennifer Aniston\u2019s character] because she\u2019s authentic and true to herself. And how she got her power was through truth. Celine is in a position where she has to prove herself, and where a lot of things are expected from her. I think she feels Alex is in a position of being freer than she is. Celine has a lot of prisons around her. She\u2019s not free to do whatever she wants. So she\u2019s inspired by Alex. There is this desire to prove and this desire to have more power by herself to free herself from her family, and where that leads her is interesting. Because if there weren\u2019t strong female personalities around her, I think it would be easier for her. But at the same time, the way it nourishes her personality and herself is really beautiful. It unfolds her emotion in a very beautiful way.<\/p>\n