In an interview with Figaro, published Wednesday, December 29, Léa Seydoux returned to the set “super hard“of The Life of Adele, by Abdelatif Kechiche. And she revealed that she now asks for a nudity clause before making a movie.
Impossible to miss it. In 2021, Léa Seydoux starred in the last James Bond, To die can wait, by Cary Joji Fukunaga, as well as France, by Bruno Dumont, by My wife’s story, Ildiko Enyedi and The French Dispatch, by Wes Anderson. And Wednesday, December 29, the film Deception, by Arnaud Desplechin, with Léa Seydoux in the title role is out. The actress has chained French productions and international productions. And she has no intention of leaving screens around the world. However, she takes precautions: she signs nudity clauses before filming. The reason ? Bad memories of filming The Life of Adele, by Abdellatif Kechiche, released in 2013. After the release of the film crowned with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Léa Seydoux denounced the shooting conditions “horrible” in an interview with Daily Beast.
“The cinema has become aware of certain things”
Léa Seydoux had particularly deplored the multiple takes for scenes of only thirty seconds – sex scenes for the most part -, as well as the tantrums of Abdellatif Kechiche. “The film was super hard to shoot“, she confided in an interview with Figaro, Wednesday, December 29, qualifying: “I also had great moments of pleasure.” Léa Seydoux added: “It’s very ambivalent, not just horrible. I still think that Kechiche has a lot of talent. But I wonder if it would be possible to make the film today under the same conditions. The team, the production, were witnesses to that. They would no longer accept it. The cinema has become aware of certain things “, analyzed Léa Seydoux. And her too. “From now on, I sign nudity clauses in my contracts on Anglo-Saxon films. It’s the case for Crimes of the Future, by David Cronenberg, which I just shot. I have a right of scrutiny. “