Marion Cotillard Essential to Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan, fresh off Inception, was so thrilled with Marion Cotillard that he shuffled things around for the "biggest film since the silent era" — code name: The Dark Knight Rises — to accommodate the actress's first pregnancy.* Nolan tells Vogue he worked to "figure it out," pushing the majority of Cotillard's work back a month and welcoming her family on set. “She’s Superwoman,” Nolan says. That's not a veiled tip about Cotillard actually becoming Superwoman by the film's end, is it?

*Correction: This piece initially stated that Cotillard had been pregnant three times.