The Full Shoot: Léa Seydoux for AnOther Magazine
February 18, 2015
Bond Girl-in-waiting Léa Seydoux photographed by Collier Schorr for the
Léa Seydoux‘s small but perfectly formed vignettes in films for directors including Wes Anderson, Woody Allen and Quentin Tarrantino, as well as her campaigns for Prada’s latest fragrance Candy, have made her one of France’s most in-demand exports. Her nuanced Palme d’Or-winning performance in the lesbian love story Blue is the Warmest Colour, which became mirred in controversy surrounding director Abdellatif Kechiche’s extremely demanding techniques, including graphic sex scenes shot over 10 days, brought her world-wide acclaim.
Next year, as well as Spectre, Sam Mendes’s follow-up to Skyfall opposit Daniel Craig, she will appear in cult greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, an “unconventional love story” set in a dystopian future where singletons who don’t find a mate within 45 days are transformed into wild beasts.
Quote of Note: “I try to be in the past, the present and the future. Otherwise I would feel already dead. When you act you really feel in the present. It saves me, in a way. It’s hard for me to think about the future. It creates a lot of anxiety.”
Léa Seydoux is luminous. The word is bandied around a lot, but the French actress gives it back its true meaning, never more so than in this stunning film created behind the scenes of Collier Schorr’s cover shoot for AnOther Magazine S/S15.
Styled by AnOther’s fashion director Katie Shillingford in ravishing oriental silks by Alexander McQueen, Prada and Maison Martin Margiela, the Bond Girl-to-be was captured in motion by filmmaker Masha Vasyukova.
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