{"id":434895,"date":"2026-05-19T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:07:10","slug":"lea-seydoux-on-shooting-nude-scenes-for-cannes-film-gentle-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434895\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9a Seydoux On Shooting Nude Scenes For Cannes Film ‘Gentle Monster’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFrench actress L\u00e9a Seydoux stars in not one but two films In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year: The Unknown<\/a>, directed by Arthur Harari, and Gentle Monster, from director Marie Kreutzer. The latter film draws on skills she\u2019s never displayed in her oeuvre before.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always loved to sing and it\u2019s true that it\u2019s the first time that I sing in a film,\u201d she told Deadline and she and Kreutzer sat down for an interview. \u201cI loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Gentle Monster Seydoux plays Lucy, a successful musician and singer married to Philip (Laurence Rupp) a somewhat fragile man prone to panic attacks. Her world is shattered after Philip is arrested and accused of being part of a pedophile ring. Kreutzer explained her inspiration to create the story came from reading an article in Die Zeit, the German weekly newspaper.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Laurence<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLaurence Rupp and L\u00e9a Seydoux in \u2018Gentle Monster\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMK2 Films<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was about a big ring of pedo-criminals in Germany who were uncovered and then subsequently prosecuted,\u201d the director said. \u201cIt was about the whole investigation, it was very explicit, it was very hard to read. And after that, I was at a public [swimming] pool with my daughter, and I walked around the area, and I couldn\u2019t look at the families the same way I had looked at them before. And it just really changed my perspective because obviously I knew about sexual violence against or towards children. But what I wasn\u2019t aware of is that, statistically speaking, I must not only know victims, which I know I do, I must also know perpetrators. And this made me feel very angry and sick, but also helpless. And I thought the only thing I can do about it is make a film about it because that\u2019s what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGentle Monster (the title comes from the husband\u2019s online handle) includes several lovemaking scenes with the couple shot with full frontal nudity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had an intimacy coordinator and it\u2019s something that really helped us because it creates a zone where you feel safe,\u201d Seydoux said. \u201cBut I have to say that sometimes when we started to talk about the scenes, we tried to rehearse a bit \u2014 not really rehearse, but we were like, \u2018Okay, what are the parts that you can touch or not touch? What do you feel comfortable with or not?\u2019 And at some point, I felt a bit uncomfortable, I have to say, because I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t think too much about it because otherwise I will never be able to let myself go and abandon myself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress has expressed ambivalence about the making of Blue Is the Warmest Color, the 2013 Palme d\u2019or winner directed by Abdellatif Kechiche that included very explicit sex scenes between Seydoux and co-star Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos. On Gentle Monster, she had some ground rules in place.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe did the scenes that I found very beautiful in the film and necessary, but it\u2019s something that I ask me as me \u2014 as L\u00e9a \u2014 when I work with a director, I always want to have the approval on the nude scenes, like always. It\u2019s something that really I feel that belongs to me and I want to have the final cut on those scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"L\u00e9a<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tL\u00e9a Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve pose during the \u2018Gentle Monster\u2019 photocall at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAurore Marechal\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the full interview above, Kreutzer also speaks to how she cast screen legend Catherine Deneuve as Seydoux\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deadline Studio at Cannes is sponsored by\u00a0SCAD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTitle: Gentle Monster<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Competition<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector: Marie Kreutzer<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenwriter: Marie Kreutzer<\/p>\n

\n\tSales agent: MK2<\/p>\n

\n\tLogline: A renowned pianist relocates with her family to the countryside, where she uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanelists: Marie Kreutzer (director, screenwriter), L\u00e9a Seydoux (actress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French actress L\u00e9a Seydoux stars in not one but two films In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35493,14400,221935,430,156,16138,30055,30056,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-434895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cannes-studio","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gentle-monster","tag-lu00e9a-seydoux","tag-marie-kreutzer","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}