L'agent provocateur: meet Léa Seydoux, star of Blue is the Warmest Colour
Before the controversial and widely acclaimed film Blue is the Warmest Colour, Léa Seydoux was the anxious, melancholic scion of a French film dynasty, too scared even to travel by plane. But after a role that pushed her to the edge and beyond, the actress has found love, faced her fears and is ready to soar
Hermione Eyre
31 January 2014
hen Léa Seydoux created one of the most desirable gay women in cinematic history in Blue is the Warmest Colour, the French love story that ran away with the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year, there was hope, in some quarters, that she might be living the lesbian dream off-screen as well as on. The 28-year-old actress told me that she questioned her sexuality while making the film, which included a seven-minute sex scene: ‘Of course I did. Me as a person, as a human being…’ There are frequently little philosophical touches to her speech; she is French, after all. ‘It’s not nothing, making those scenes. Of course I question myself. But…’ Her mobile, screen-goddess features lighten as she finds the right word: ‘I did not have any revelations.’
