“So it was made for me because, in a way, I can hide. Her upbringing helped prepare her for her character in Spectre, an assassin’s daughter who shares Seydoux’s “instinct de vie” – the scrappy survival skills of someone burying her past. “Acting, you play a role every time,” she says softly. Try if you want, but it’s never going to work.’ ” But after becoming a fixture of French cinema, she was cast in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and as a farm girl being questioned by Nazi soldiers in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. “When I said, ‘I want to be an actress,’ my parents were like, ‘Bullshit. Seydoux started acting when she was 18, taking up a profession no one in her family had envisioned for her. “I would ask girls to come to my house and play, and they were like, ‘No, my mother doesn’t want it, there’s no supervision.'” But Seydoux was also left to wander the streets “badly dressed and in too-small shoes. Her family had entertainment-world connections thanks to her grandfather, a film producer, and she remembers childhood encounters with Mick Jagger and Lou Reed. Her father is CEO of the wireless company Parrot, and, in Seydoux’s words, a “genius” engineer her mother a philanthropist whose work often took her to Africa. In fact, Seydoux was used to being the misfit in a glittery world. “I thought, ‘Oh, it’s never going to work, all the other girls will want ,'” she says.įans Built Her an Internet Empire. It’s by far the most high-profile role yet for an actress with deep art-house roots. Right now you can catch her as the newest Bond girl in Spectre, opposite Daniel Craig. She had her breakout performance in the 2013 French film Blue Is the Warmest Color, which featured a now-legendary seven-minute lesbian sex scene and won her a Palme d’Or at Cannes. It was “the life of freedom, being your own boss” that drew Seydoux, 30, to acting. “I’ve always felt like an orphan,” says the actress, who was one of seven kids. The “streets,” in Seydoux’s case, were the boulevards of Paris’ Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, historically the city’s cultural center, where, thanks to her parents’ bohemian tendencies, she was often left to her own devices. “But in a way, I really did my own education.” “I mean, I’m not, like, Jay Z,” she adds, laughing through the gap in her front teeth. Send us feedback about these examples.I learned from the streets,” says actress Léa Seydoux, perched on a plush sofa in the bar of New York’s Bowery Hotel. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'specter.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 That has raised the specter of Las Vegas becoming the future home of the A’s, but there are concerns with the amount of funding the baseball team could receive for a new stadium in Nevada. 2023 China has long insisted that Taiwan is its territory, and the specter of it invading is always looming over the island.
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