Actress who cried after shooting ‘graphic lesbian’ movie said filming was ‘too much’
Topics: LGBTQ, TV And Film
Britt Jones
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Topics: LGBTQ, TV And Film
The actress who starred in a film which was so 'graphic' she cried at the Cannes Film Festival has spoken about her time on set.
Lèa Seydoux, who you know from her appearances in Daniel Craig's James Bond films, Spectre and No Time to Die, and Dune: Part Two, previously starred in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour.
The film, which showed graphic lesbian sex, was released in 2013, and based on the 2010 graphic novel of the same name by French author Jul Maroh.
The story follows Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who gets into a relationship with Seydoux's Emma.
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Blue is the Warmest Colour received a lot of praise, but the actresses have criticised its director and also the sex scenes.
Maroh had described it as 'porn' and male-centred, writing in a blog that it was 'brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn'.
However, thankfully, they were prosthetics throughout so they could feel more comfortable with a 10-minute-long scene which took over a week to film.
For Seydoux, she has a long history of speaking out about the flick.
In 2013, she told Esquire about the moment she cried at the film festival when the director was complimenting her.
She said: "I remember, it was terrible because I felt so embarrassed."
She added: "Because of what we've been through with Adèle, and what I've been through, and the fact that the film is now existing.
"So it was a very emotional moment. It was like... relief that the film was shown to the audience. And of course, because this film was difficult to shoot."
However, she told The Gentlewoman that she doesn’t ‘regret it’.
But it was just ‘too much’.
She said she didn't 'mind the intensity', the issue was that 'the sex lasts so long’.
She explained that it was ‘take after take after take’ and it got to the point where she questioned 'when did I become a porn star?’
The Inglourious Basterds star further revealed that she no longer want to work with Kechiche again.
She said to Esquire: "I would love to do another film that requires all my being. But with, like, no. Of course I wouldn't work with him again."
Responding to Seydoux's complaints of a difficult shoot, Kechiche told press in 2013: "How indecent to talk about pain when doing one of the best jobs in the world!
"The orderlies suffer, the unemployed suffer, construction workers could talk about suffering. How, when you are adored, when you go up on red carpet, when we receive awards, how we can speak of suffering?"