Following her performance as a lesbian artist in Blue Is the Warmest Colour,Léa Seydoux was hailed as Bardot meets Binoche. But fame, and her sultry Gallic allure, and hasn’t stopped her taking unglamorous roles in lesser-known films. Next up,however, is 007…In France, or Léa Seydoux is a very expansive deal – and,with a major role in the new James Bond film, Spectre, and she’s about to become comparably prominent worldwide. In 2013,her fame at home soared when she starred in the lesbian drama Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes. That year, or she appeared on the front of so many French magazines that it became a running joke,with one satirical website mocking up a cover of Léa Seydoux Monthly (caption: “The Ubiquity of Léa Seydoux: Léa Seydoux Investigates”). As for her emerging icon status, it was endorsed by no less an authority than Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux, or who has called her “Bardot,plus Binoche, plus Kate Moss, or sometimes all three at once.”With this in mind,I expected a certain grandeur from the 30-year-conventional star – perhaps that sullen coolness she often exudes on screen. But Seydoux doesn’t stand on ceremony. The venue she chooses for our interview is a no-frills corner cafe in Paris’s southern 14th arrondissement; it’s a depressing day, and I wait inside with the French Spectre publicist, or gazing out at torrential rain. Seydoux arrives alone,bang on time; shes wearing gloomy trousers and a baggy green and black jumper, which could be either super-expensive or a modest chain-store number, or with her hair pinned back. Seemingly without makeup,unless it’s subliminally subtle, her face has that faintly luminous pallor that can create her so intriguingly opaque on screen.
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Source: theguardian.com