Two Hollywood icons confessed they “felt like prostitutes” after filming fake orgasms for “six hours”.
Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos starred together in 2013’s sapphic romance Blue is the Warmest Colour, a hit French film that proved a hit with fans. That resulted in their famous 10-minute sex scene, which actually took around 10 days to film.
The simulated sex was so difficult to film because Seydoux had to fake an orgasm for an entire six hours under the watchful gaze of director Abdellatif Kechiche. Opening up about those scenes, Léa confessed: “Of course it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute.
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“Of course, [Kechiche] uses that sometimes. He 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.”
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Adèle told the Daily Beast: “Once we were on the shoot, I realised that he really wanted us to give him everything. Most people don’t even dare to ask the things that he did, and they’re more respectful – you get reassured during sex scenes, and they’re choreographed, which desexualises the act.” But that didn’t happen for Blue is the Warmest Colour.
Speaking of the French film scene in particular, Léa added: “The director has all the power. When you’re an actor on a film in France and you sign the contract, you have to give yourself, and in a way you’re trapped.”
Both actresses refused to perform “cunnilingus” on set, but admitted to wearing prosthetic vaginas to conceal their own. Adèle told GQ: “I know that everybody wants to ask me, ‘Do you really f*** together? When you die in a movie, you don’t really die in life!”
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Léa added to The Independent: “We had fake p***ies on. You have something to protect and tape it under. I don’t make love on screen. We can fake these things, you can’t fake feelings, but you can fake body language.”
The actors branded the scenes “gross” to shoot, with Léa admitting: “You have to be out of your body. It’s too difficult.” While they managed to refuse certain things at the start of filming – including refusing to smoke real cigarettes and use their real names – after that, they would be “fired” if they didn’t “give everything”.
The pair also claimed they never knew when filming would end, as Kechiche would push for “three months more”. It lasted five and a half months in total, with the stars allegedly pausing their outside lives.
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Reflecting on her experience in 2022, Léa confessed: “I wanted to, like, explore and expose myself. And even the sex scenes… I wanted to experience how it would be to shoot things like that.
“But I didn’t know that he was totally, totally obsessed by the film. He could do scenes 200 times and I didn’t know that at the start.”
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