PARIS – French actress Léa Seydoux was thrilled with her first shooting experience with filmmaker Denis Villeneuve on the set of the sequel to sand duneslast year.
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The 37-year-old actress met in Paris on Monday afternoon as part of the Rendez-vous d’Unifrance and had nothing but good words for the Quebec director. She says she was particularly struck by his great humility.
“It’s nice to see how humble Denis remains despite everything that’s happening to him,” she confided to a small group of journalists in a Paris hotel.
“I had met him a few years ago because we were also jury members at the Cannes Film Festival. [en 2018]. He’s someone I adore. He is super funny and very enthusiastic. I’ve often noticed that Quebecers have an incredible joie de vivre. And him, I adore him. It was a wonderful moment for me to shoot in Dune with him. It was great!”
Léa Seydoux gave no further details about her participation in the filming of Dune 2, which took place first in Budapest, Hungary and then in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates last year. All we know is that the actress best known for her role as James Bond’s lover in 007 Specter and Dying Can Wait embodies the character of Lady Margot.
The Dune sequel, which hits our screens next November, will bring together several stars from the first film – including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Josh Brolin – but also several newcomers including Seydoux, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walker and Austin Butler.
The new Emmanuel
Léa Seydoux rose to prominence in 2008 for her role in La belle personne and has been shooting in France and Europe for several years. In the coming months, she will play the mythical character of Emmanuelle in a new version of the erotic novel of the same name, which will be directed by French filmmaker Audrey Diwan (The Event).
“It will be very different and will have nothing to do with the Emmanuelle films shot in the past, the actress specifies. It really will be an Emmanuelle of the year 2023. There will be eroticism, but it will be approached through a female prism and from her own point of view.
- We will soon see Léa Seydoux on the screens of Quebec in A nice morningthe new film from director Mia Hansen-Love, which hits theaters on February 10th.