In the working class hero drama about morality, “Two Days, One Night,” Marion Cotillard’s character, Sandra, has one weekend to go door to door to her co-workers’ homes and try to convince them to have Friday’s vote overturned. To keep this simple without giving the story away, Sandra, works at a factory that makes solar panels. On Friday, her co-workers voted to have her laid off as each employee would receive a 1,000 Euro bonus if she was let go. This upcoming Monday, they will have a re-count and if she wins, she can stay on. So, she and her husband travel around Liege, Belgium, going to the homes of 16 of her colleagues getting to know each of them in their personal lives, some of them are soccer coaches, parents, wives, or are working second jobs. She pleads with them to vote in her favor come Monday, and assessing their reactions, sees them for who they really are.
As Sandra explains just as they need their bonus money, that, she too, needs her salary because she is a young mom and wife, the reactions from many are the adamant, “No, I’m sorry, I need the 1,000 Euro bonus money”, while many pleasantly surprise her.
Will she stay on? Will she win over her colleagues? Can she get them to change their minds? Will they vote in her favor?
Question addressed to Marion Cottillard: Would you have voted for your character if she asked you?
Marion Cottillard: “I empathized with her. The system is not logical to humans. I understand that some of the workers needed the 1,000 Euro bonus money, and some will pay solidarity to the people they know. I would think to myself ‘Do I know this person?’ I would empathize that she has two children to feed. I think if the person came to see me in person, I would definitely have voted for her to keep her job.”
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ABELLA Sharon 
