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The 2013 film “Blue is the Warmest Color” won the Palme d'Or for best director at the Cannes festival by the FrenchTunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechich, but ten years later one of the film's protagonists stated that she did not do it well Memories of the production. Adele Exarchopoulos said that going behind the scenes of the sex scenes was traumatic.
“The recordings were degrading and at times I felt like a prostitute. Director Abdellatif Kechiche used three cameras, and when you have to fake an orgasm for six hours… You can't say it was nothing. The hardest thing for me was to show my feelings more than my body,” he said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast.
The French actress also explained how the dynamic worked on set: “When we were recording, I realized that he really wanted us to give it our all. Most people don't even dare to ask for the things he asked for, and they are more respectful,” she admitted that she was in Brazil 10 years ago to release the film. “The sex scenes are choreographed, which makes the action less sexualized. You have to be out of body.”
Adèle is the protagonist of the recently released film “Passages,” directed by Ira Sachs, and she said that as soon as she learned about the plot, she made it clear what her limits would be for the most intimate scenes. “I said I don't do that and I have no problems with sex scenes, but I don't want people to see my body the way I used to,” he commented, referring to “Blue is the warmest color.” At the end she vented. “So we found another way. “Ira wasn’t interested in seeing my breasts and body,” he said.