By Rosie Bettis
Bond bombshell Léa Seydoux graces her first British Vogue cover for November, inside talking about what it was like to be cast as the role of Madeleine in Bond’s next big-screen outing, Spectre. “I don’t mind the cliché of the Bond girl. But Madeleine, she is very different” she told British Vogue “And to choose me as a Bond girl, it’s a choice. A statement. I’m not the typical James Bond girl”.
The new Bond film is certainly very different to anything Léa has done before, with previous roles in a range of films including Blue is the warmest color (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).
Looks like all eyes are on French actress in the run up to the release of the new Bond film, and many magazines have taken this opportunity to once again feature Léa on their covers. Her modelling career started back in 2006 when she was offered the job of American Apparel’s model after running into the brand’s CEO whilst walking around Paris with no make-up on and wet hair because it had been raining… lucky for some!
The former AA model has been the face of a huge collection of magazines through her career, but her British vogue debut is undoubtedly her biggest modelling achievement to date. Vogue’s original short “How to be a Bond girl with Léa Seydoux” directed by Jeremie Rozan, sees their November cover star teaching “how to be the most alluring and deadly creature known to celluloid”.
Léa Seydoux was born in Paris and has a great French ancestry and her success is also appreciated by her large French fanbase. INBEDWITH, a French online fan magazine published an interview with Léa where she speaks about the fears and surprises on being chosen to represent the next Bond girl, with some highlights of her career and everyday life. She describes her acting experience as frightening, “we have enormous abilities in terms of surviving. In our countries it’s not like war or anything but there is always an inner war, my own personal fights” she says, “Sometimes life can be very peaceful and quite, but you have to fight every day, we all fight”.
Léa is definitely one to keep a look out for – with a string of nominations in both Britain and France through her career, could her Bond debut see her bag some of those awards at last?
“I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I’m lucky – not to have been a cover girl – but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it’s still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I‘ve earned is down to me, and no one else”. – Léa Seydoux
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