Sultry and enigmatic, Léa Seydoux has quickly become one of the hottest French actresses in the business. Her torrid performance in the erotically-charged lesbian love story “Blue is the Warmest Colour” (2013) turned her into an international star. Her sensual nude pictorials in Lui Magazine, in turn, made her into an overnight sex symbol. Smart career moves and her onscreen honesty and bravery also helped earn her a coveted role as a Bond girl in SPECTRE and in No Time to Die.
Formidably independent, Seydoux is quick to stress that her character, Dr. Madeleine Swann, is a serious woman who is much more than eye candy.
“She’s an interesting woman, very smart,” Seydoux says. “I wanted to create a character who is a strong woman and is very different from other Bond girls. I wanted to follow more in the style of Eva Green in Casino Royal (2006), who did something exceptional with her character. We’re in an age where audiences don’t want to see female characters who are passive and submissive sex objects and I tried to show that (Madeleine) is a very capable and independent woman.”
The 36-year-old Seydoux is descended from French film royalty - her grandfather Jérôme is CEO of the French film and media giant, Pathé, while her great-uncle Nicolas is head of Gaumont, France’s most prominent film production and Distribution Company.
Apart from various French films, she has established herself in several major American productions, including Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and most recently Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, where she poses nude for a convicted felon and accused murderer Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio Del Toro).
The film brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. A sort of love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine.”
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