Lea Seydoux on Cannes, Future Crimes, Emmanuelle – The Hollywood Reporter

Leah Seydoux pulls double duty at the Cannes Film Festival, with Mia Hansen-Løve‘s A good morning and David Cronenberg‘s The crimes of the future both premiered at the French festival. In the midst of this, Seydoux sat down The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg for a live episode of him Price talk podcast, co-presented byTHR and SAG-AFTRA in collaboration with OuterInsight.

The podcast was recorded in the Campari Lounge in the Palais, overlooking the Croisette, which was busy on a Sunday morning. The lounge is located next to the Palais, where Seydoux will on Monday attend the premiere of Cronenberg’s first film in eight years and the first time in Cannes since the 1996s. Crash.

The crimes of the future takes place in the near future, where people have adapted to their synthetic environment, making traditional food and sex obsolete. The story follows performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who, thanks to a technologically advanced bed that anticipates all his body’s needs, grows new organs at a rapid pace, which is then removed in front of sold-out crowds with the help of Caprice (Seydoux), a surgeon who became Tenser’s creative partner. .

‘The script was something strange. I did not think I understood it, but I find his films extremely poetic, ”Seydoux said of the project. “It was just a new adventure.”

At the opposite end of the cinematic spectrum, A good morning is a slice of life drama that plays a woman who juggles a romantic affair and raises her daughter while caring for her sick father.

“What I like about working with women [directors] are they not fantasizing, ”she said. In addition to Hansen-Løve, Seydoux has worked with a large number of female instructors, including Jessica Hausner and Ursula Meier. To some male instructors, Seydoux laughed: “A woman is a strange creature.”

It was announced ahead of the Cannes Film Festival that Seydoux will be working with the director Audrey Diwan in a feature film inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel, Emmanuelle. “When I spoke to Audrey Diwan, she told me that she wanted to talk about a woman of the present, whom she sees and knows, but whom she does not see on screen. I understood what she meant, ”she said.

Seydoux continued, “It’s a female perspective on a woman’s relationship to her sexuality.”

Seydoux is a Cannes veteran who has debuted more than a dozen titles at the festival and won the Palme d’Or for the 2013 film Blue is the warmest color. During the wide-ranging conversation, she also talked about working with Quentin Tarantino (Incredible bastards), tom Cruise (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Wes Andersen (The French broadcast) and Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), as well as her extended career in both French and American film.

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