Lea Seydoux on Crimes of the Future and One Fine Morning

Published: May 31, 2022, 10:14 p.m.

b'L\\xe9a Seydoux had an enviable and prolific 2021 with standout turns in Cary Fukunaga\\u2019s No Time to Die, Wes Anderson\\u2019s The French Dispatch, Ildik\\xf3 Enyedi\\u2019s The Story of My Wife, Bruno Dumont\\u2019s France, and Arnaud Desplechin\\u2019s Deception. At this year\\u2019s Cannes, she continued her streak with starring roles in two excellent, very different movies: One Fine Morning by Mia Hansen-L\\xf8ve, where Seydoux plays a young mother grieving the cognitive decline of her father; and Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg, where the actress is a dystopian performance artist alongside Viggo Mortensen.\\n\\nFor our latest podcast, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish sat down with Seydoux for a windswept conversation on a rooftop on the Croisette (with a surprise cameo by Viggo Mortensen!). Seydoux discussed her experiences working with Hansen-L\\xf8ve and Cronenberg, the intricacies of being an object versus a subject as an actor, her thoughts on beauty in cinema, and more.'