Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard, who will grace the silver screen as Lady Macbeth in the forthcoming adaptation of Macbeth, recently sat for an interview with Porter, during which she offered her thoughts about feminism.

The 20 stars nominated for Academy Awards this year represent some of the most talented (or, anyway, famous) actors on screen today. At one point, however, they were slack-jawed, blank-eyed, no-name novices. They’d probably like to forget their often humiliating early work, but thanks to the magic of technology, they can never escape it. From Ed Norton’s educational ESL VHS to Emma Stone’s completely mortifying renditions of pop songs on an American Idol knock-off show, so much of the early work of these nominees is jaw-droppingly bad.

Being a PR flack isn't easy. Much of the job revolves around using Exacto knives to perfectly clip Us Weekly articles for EPKs without slitting your own wrists, shuttling celebrities from point A to point B (point A being the top of the red carpet, point B being 3 feet down the red carpet), and staying out of the camera's watchful eye themselves, all while subsisting on a diet of Diet Coke and Parliament Lights. It's no wonder most publicists have got one hell of a bitchy resting face.