During the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, French actress Léa Seydoux revisited her harrowing experience of filming Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 romantic drama, Blue Is the Warmest Color.
Both Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos have previously gone public about the grueling set conditions, especially the “horrible” manner in which the explicit scenes were filmed. They’ve both said they will never work with Kechiche again.
Kechiche won the Palme d’Or for it at Cannes 2013, but that didn’t shield the film from controversy over its graphic, prolonged intimacy sequences, especially after Seydoux broke down in tears during the press conference.
