Léa Seydoux, the French actress shining in Cannes. Photo by Reuters
In 2021, he presented four films at the cinephile meeting. This year, French actress Léa Seydoux remains queen of the Cannes Festival, along with two other films, one of them in competition.
The 36-year-old interpreter is in competition for the Palme d’Or future crimesby Canadian David Cronenberg, and a good morningby French director Mia Hansen-Løve, in the parallel section of the Directors ’Fortnight contest, which was screened this Friday.
In the filming of that second film, he fell ill with covid and the positivity prevented him from going to Cannes last year, where he had The French Dispatchfrom wes anderson; Francefrom Bruno DumontY My husband’s storyby Ildiko Enyedi, they are all in competition, and Tromperiefrom Arnaud Desplechinin the uncompetitive section of the Cannes Premiere.
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a good morning has an autobiographical dimension for Hansen-Løve and Seydoux is his on-screen alter egoSandra, a woman five years after being widowed, rediscovered love in conjunction with her father’s darkening of neurodegenerative disease.
“This is for the first time offered me the opportunity to include a normal personsomeone with whom the viewer could identify, “said the actress, who received the script during her first incarceration and said she accepted it at the time.
His reading, he pointed out, helped him cope with the situation: “We were having a strange moment and it really struck me. There was simplicity in the script and at the same time it was a sincere feeling,” Seydoux said afterwards. noon. go through the public first.
Costumes and rehearsals with other artists helped her enter the skin of the character and at the same time to the filmmaker, who brings to the film his own experience of his father’s illness.
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig, on the set of the new James Bond, “No Time to Die”.
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“When I act, it’s like I’m a character. I have such empathy that it comes directly to me,” stressed Seydoux, the protagonist of an extensive career both in France and abroad, with titles such as there is no time to die Y Specter, from the James Bond sagaeither Midnight in Paris.
He went to Cannes for the first time to compete with Adele’s life (2013), by Franco-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche and with Adèle Exarchopoulos, who won the Palme d’Or which recognized both the work of the filmmaker and of the two actresses.
Lèa Seydoux, director Abdellatif Kechiche and Adèle Exarchopoulos, Palme d’Or winners for “The Life of Adèle”. Photo Distribution Company
Sa future crimes, which will be released next Monday, Seydox completely changed the register. From a movie like a good morninganchored in everyday life, in a futuristic horror co-starring Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart and suppose a return to Cronenberg’s direction after eight years.
“I have the privilege of making the films I want“, the actress acknowledged in the magazine’s special Madam Figaro about the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Tuesday and closes on the 28th.
He doesn’t always choose most commercial films, he assured, but he has the impression of being in the right place, and working abroad helps you get stuck in your comfort zone and put yourself to the test.
“Shooting outside, with actors trained elsewhere, is often for me an invitation to transcend what is blocking me. In the end, I know that the best of me comes out of it, “the actress added, convinced that all of her roles are basically variations of herself, a single character in which she expresses her emotions and personality traits.
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