FRENCH FEMME FATALE
Get Seduced by Bond Girl Léa Seydoux
In No Time To Die, Léa Seydoux gets to do what only one other Bond girl, Sylvia Trench (unless you consider Moneypenny, a Bond girl), has done before. Seydoux will reprise her role as Dr. Madeleine Swann. We last saw Swann in 2015’s Spectre. As fans of the series may remember, at the end of Spectre, Bond retires from the service and walks off with Swann in the hopes of a happy ever after. Now we will find out what happened since Spectre ended. From the trailer for No Time To Die, it seems there’s drama that resulted in Bond and Swann separating. Will we learn that Swann was actually a villain all along? Was she just an unwitting pawn in someone else’s evil game? We’ll discover what happened when No Time To Die comes out on April 10, 2020. Now, let’s get to know the actress behind Dr. Swann, the wonderful Léa Seydoux.
Born Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne on July 1, 1985, she started to get professional acting roles in 2005. She first achieved widespread acclaim for her starring role in French auteur Christophe Honoré’s 2008 movie The Beautiful Person. In the film, she plays Junie, a teenager who transfers to a new school after the death of her mother. At her new school, she gets noticed by fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Italian teacher Nemours (Louis Garrel). The role earned her a Chopard Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a nomination for Most Promising Actress at the César Awards. After that, she started working in American movies, including Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
In 2013 she starred as Emma in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour. The romantic-drama, based on the graphic novel of the same name, follows the love story between two young French women. The critically acclaimed movie helped Seydoux be honored again at the Cannes Film Festival. In an unprecedented move, the festival awarded not only the movie’s director but also Seydoux and her co-star, Adèle Exarchopoulos, with the Palme d’Or. Seydoux is now a sought after actress for major motion pictures, including as a go-to actress for filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom she worked on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and the upcoming The French Dispatch. With such amazing credits and a promising slate of forthcoming projects, Seydoux will undoubtedly continue to wow us.
