Léa Seydoux says filming the “most explosive lesbian scene” made her question her sexuality

An actress has spoken about how filming an explicit lesbian sex scene made her question her sexuality.

Lea Seydoux is best known for her role as Dr. Madeleine Swann alongside Daniel Craig in two James Bond Movies, spook And No time to die.

But before starring in the Hollywood franchise, Seydoux took on a role in a French film released in 2013.

She starred in the film alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos and has previously spoken about the impact filming had on her.

The film was Blue is the warmest color and follows the young woman Adele, played by Exarchopoulos, on her journey of self-discovery surrounding her sexuality.

Seydoux took on the role of Adele’s first love, the blue-haired bohemian artist Emma.

The relationship between the two characters is central to the film’s plot, including their “explosive” beginnings when they start sleeping together.

Seydoux spoke about how the film influenced her. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Blue is the warmest color is also known for an extended and explicit sex scene between the two main actors.

Variety magazine described the scene as “the most explosive lesbian sex scene in recent history.”

And the scene was so charged that Seydoux even admitted that it raised questions about her own sexuality.

When asked by the Evening Standard whether she had questioned her own sexuality after producing the film, she replied: “Of course I have.”

She added: “Me as a person, as a human being. Doing these scenes is not nothing.”

So what was the result of asking these questions about herself?

She said, “Of course I ask myself questions, but I have had no revelations.”

The film received critical acclaim upon its release and won the Pal D’Or at Cannes in 2013.

The film was also controversial because of the explicit nature and length of the sex scene, which was shot over ten days.

Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos in Cannes 2013. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Among the critics of the scene was French author and illustrator Jul Maroh, who wrote the graphic novel on which the film is based.

Maroh criticized the scene as “porn,” as well as the fact that neither of the two lead roles was played by an LGBTQ+ actress in a film about lesbian identity and experience.

In a blog post, she criticized the sex scene for being geared towards male perception, calling it a “brutal and surgical display of so-called lesbian sex that has become pornography, in an exuberant and cold manner.”

Maroh added: “The only people we didn’t hear giggling were the potential guys who were too busy feasting their eyes on the embodiment of their fantasies on screen.”