Not that she didn't take time off.  Her Christmas vacation was a fifteen-day cooking marathon during which she prepared turkey, couscous, and chapon for various sittings of friends and family..."I spent my vacation in the kitchen, and I loved it.  The kitchen is one of the most important places in the house." Cotillard seems not just OK but entirely at ease when operating at full stretch like this.  "I've never been more exhausted," she tells me.  "But I've never had so much energy.  This is the paradox of being happy.  That's where it comes from."  She flashes an infectious full-beam smile from under the hood of her jacket and pushes deeper into the forest.
- Marion Cotillard via VOGUE