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Cotillard may play Depp’s gangster’s moll

LAST UPDATED AT 08:39 ON Tue 29 Jan 2008

The French actress Marion Cotillard, who made her name playing the iconic singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, is in negotiations to play a gangster's moll in a new film about the Depression-era bankrobber John Dillinger. Public Enemies will star Johnny Depp as the notorious Dillinger and producers hope Cotillard will play his part-French, part-native American girlfriend Billie.

The film, to be directed by Michael Mann, is an adaptation of Brian Burroughs' book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. The story follows the FBI's attempts to stop Dillinger and and other gangsters including Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Christian Bale, fresh from playing Batman in The Dark Knight opposite the late Heath Ledger's Joker, will play the famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis who was there when Dillinger finally died on July 22, 1934 in a hail of bullets outside the Biograph cinema in Chicago.

J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, was so besotted with catching Dillinger that at one stage in the 1930s a third of the bureau's entire budget was spent on chasing him. Following the bankrobber's death, the story goes that Hoover kept Dillinger's pickled penis in a jar.

Cotillard is up for the best actress Oscar in next month's ceremony for her performance in La Vie en Rose, though she faces stiff competition from Julie Christie who last weekend won the SAG award for her role in Away From Her. Depp is up for a best actor Oscar for his role in Sweeney Todd. ·