Rust and Bone production company Why Not Productions
Cast
Marion Cotillard as Stéphanie
Matthias Schoenaerts as Ali
Armand Verdure as Sam
Corinne Masiero as Anna
Céline Sallette as Louise
Bouli Lanners as Martial
Mourad Frarema as Foued
Jean-Michel Correia as Richard
Yannick Choirat as SimonProduction
The film was produced by Why Not Productions for €15.4 million. It was co-produced with France 2 Cinéma, Page 114 and the Belgian company Les Films du Fleuve. Filming started on 4 October 2011 and lasted eight weeks. Locations were used in Antibes, Cannes, Belgium, Paris, northern France, and Brussels. To prepare for the role, Cotillard took swimming lessons and spent a week at Marineland to learn how to direct whales. Explaining how the team adjusted to Stéphanie having no legs, Cotillard told: "When we did the first costume fitting, we had to try those pants that were empty of my legs and I had to fold my legs in the wheelchair. That image was so powerful that we kept it throughout the movie. And also we worked with amazing CGI guys."The special effects were provided by the French company Mikros Image. One of the key methods used was to have Cottilard wear green knee length socks. The legs below her knees were then erased by computer or replaced with the image of prosthetic lower legs.
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