Léa Seydoux on the trauma she experienced while filming ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’: “Sometimes there are looks that make you feel uncomfortable. That was the hardest part during filming. It was psychological harassment. It’s extremely difficult to shoot with directors who are manipulative.”
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I thought the director was a known sex pest?
The same Lea Seydoux who said the women in the metoo movement would be “heroes” if they could forgive because the poor men are scared on sets.
Abdellatif Kechiche, the absolute pervert responsible for this film, became more and more daring in the worst way possible. Before all this, he made The Secret of the Grain (2007), a film about immigration that tackles sexual exploitation with barely any nudity or sex scenes (as far as I remember). It’s like the polar opposite of everything he decided to do later.
It still astonishes me that his career took the path of thinly veiled pornography and then plunged into a flimsy excuse for sexual crimes (he was accused of pressuring actors to participate in unsimulated sex scenes for his film Mektoub).
Anyway, it’s a shame that Cannes took “Blue Is the Warmest Colour” so seriously. The jury was Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, Lynne Ramsay, Christoph Waltz, etc. And it was a unanimous victory. C’mon…
Hoo hoo hoo the men are being dragged todayyyy