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| Blue Is the Warmest Colour director hits back after actor complaints | Blue Is the Warmest Colour director hits back after actor complaints |
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| The director of Cannes Palme D'Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour has hit back at claims his two lead stars experienced a "horrible" shoot while filming the acclaimed lesbian-themed romantic drama. | The director of Cannes Palme D'Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour has hit back at claims his two lead stars experienced a "horrible" shoot while filming the acclaimed lesbian-themed romantic drama. |
| In an interview published earlier this week from the Telluride film festival, Adèle Exarchopoulos, 19, and 28-year-old Léa Seydoux said Abdellatif Kechiche ranted and raved at them as he sought to achieve optimum realism during the production. The two stars said they would never work with the Franco-Tunisian film-maker again after being put through a gruelling 10-day shoot for the 10-minute love scene at the centre of the film and being forced into a continuous one-hour take - during which Kechiche refused to allow his stars to simulate blows - for a separate fight scene. | In an interview published earlier this week from the Telluride film festival, Adèle Exarchopoulos, 19, and 28-year-old Léa Seydoux said Abdellatif Kechiche ranted and raved at them as he sought to achieve optimum realism during the production. The two stars said they would never work with the Franco-Tunisian film-maker again after being put through a gruelling 10-day shoot for the 10-minute love scene at the centre of the film and being forced into a continuous one-hour take - during which Kechiche refused to allow his stars to simulate blows - for a separate fight scene. |
| Speaking in Los Angeles at a press conference to promote the film's US release yesterday, Kechiche appeared to pour scorn on his stars' suggestion that they had suffered for their art. "How indecent to talk about pain when doing one of the best jobs in the world!" the 52-year-old said in comments translated from the original French by the Hollywood Reporter. "The orderlies suffer, the unemployed suffer, construction workers could talk about suffering. How, when you are adored, when you go up on red carpet, when we receive awards, how we can speak of suffering?" The film-maker then explained that the allegedly tough shoot was required to help Seydoux better inhabit the role. | Speaking in Los Angeles at a press conference to promote the film's US release yesterday, Kechiche appeared to pour scorn on his stars' suggestion that they had suffered for their art. "How indecent to talk about pain when doing one of the best jobs in the world!" the 52-year-old said in comments translated from the original French by the Hollywood Reporter. "The orderlies suffer, the unemployed suffer, construction workers could talk about suffering. How, when you are adored, when you go up on red carpet, when we receive awards, how we can speak of suffering?" The film-maker then explained that the allegedly tough shoot was required to help Seydoux better inhabit the role. |
| Seydoux, on the same press tour as the director she had spoken out against in the Daily Beast interview a few days earlier, appeared to partially backtrack. Reportedly in tears, she said: "I have given a year of my life to this film. I had no life during this shoot. I gave everything. I have not criticised the director. I'm just complaining about the technique. It was my dream to work with him because, in France, he is one of the best directors." | Seydoux, on the same press tour as the director she had spoken out against in the Daily Beast interview a few days earlier, appeared to partially backtrack. Reportedly in tears, she said: "I have given a year of my life to this film. I had no life during this shoot. I gave everything. I have not criticised the director. I'm just complaining about the technique. It was my dream to work with him because, in France, he is one of the best directors." |
| The three-hour Blue is the Warmest Colour now heads to the Toronto film festival, where the controversy surrounding its inception is unlikely to subside. It will hit US cinemas on 25 October. | The three-hour Blue is the Warmest Colour now heads to the Toronto film festival, where the controversy surrounding its inception is unlikely to subside. It will hit US cinemas on 25 October. |
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