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Léa Seydoux Says “There’s Greater Respect” on Set After #MeToo as New Film Hits Cannes

The actress is at the fest with 'The Second Act,' which skewers everything from cancel culture to artificial intelligence.

Seydoux has previously spoken about challenging conditions on Blue is the Warmest Color, her 2013 Palme d’Or winner that landed her international fame, and featured a 7-minute lesbian sex scene that took 10 days to shoot, while the film involved upwards of 100 takes for a single shot. The Second Act hails from French DJ-turned-director Quentin Dupieux and pokes fun at the film industry and the egos surrounding it, using a film-within-a-film conceit. Despite it all, the filmmaker insisted “there’s no message” in his film, which also stars Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, Raphaël Quenard, Manuel Guillot.

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