French Actress ‘Felt Like a Prostitute’ Filming Lesbian Sex Scene for ‘Blue Is The Warmest Colour’

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne, the French actress starring alongside Adele Exarchopoulos in the 2013 critically acclaimed lesbian romance film ‘Blue Is The Warmest Colour’, told the Hollywood Reporter that filming the lesbian sex scenes took a year of her life, “I gave everything for that film,” the now 36 year old actress said, “It really changed my life on many different levels.”

Léa Seydoux also said the the movie’s director, Abdellatif Kechiche, was “just nuts”, and even by employing an intimacy coordinator to keep movie sex scenes within bounds, which became the norm after the #MeToo movement, could not make shooting the sex scene any less comfortable.

A 2013 The Independent interview with Seydoux described the very explicit lesbian sex scenes had humiliated her at times and made her feel like a prostitute, “He [the director] was using three cameras, and when you have to fake your orgasm for six hours… I can’t say that it was nothing. But for me it is more difficult to show my feelings than my body”, Seydoux said, although also remarking that “My greatest experience was Blue Is The Warmest Color.”

The near seven minute long graphic lesbian sex scene, which many viewers describe as the “best lesbian sex scene ever”, took over 100 takes and 10 days to complete the sexually explicit lesbians love making scene, which erotically showed explicit oral sex and full frontal nudity between two young women.

The other French actress in the lesbian sex scene, 29 year old Adele Exarchopoulos who played Adèle in the award winning film, told the Hollywood Reporter , “I Don’t Have Any Regrets.” Adèle, who was 19 at the time of filming, made cinematic history by becoming the first actress along with Seydoux to win the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. The prestigious award is normally given to the director of the film.

Exarchopoulos said the two actresses had never net before filming, “The first time we filmed a sex scene, I was just laughing, I was supposed to touch myself and it was supposed to be my fantasy and then when I opened my eyes and saw her we laughed so much. We were embarrassed. And he shoots for such a long time, I was thinking, ‘Man, you can stop there!’”

Seydoux explained of the scene, “In the scene where we meet for the first time, it lasts 20 seconds on screen,” says Seydoux. “We spent 10 hours working on this scene, I’m not joking. We did 100 takes, just of the moment that we crossed paths. In the end, I was just becoming crazy and just started looking at Adèle, bemused. And then he became crazy. He took the monitor, and was like, ‘Oh my God! F*** it!’ We just laughed.”

Léa Seydoux has since appeared in the hit Hollywood movies Inglourious Basterds (2009), Robin Hood (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011) and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).

Adele Exarchopoulos has also appeared in Les Enfants de Timpelbach (2008), The Round Up (2010), Turk’s Head (2010), Chez Gino (2011), Carré blanc (2011), Pieces of Me (2012) and I Used to Be Darker (2013).