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The French actress Léa Seydoux, who has also played pivotal parts in several major Hollywood productions, such as Dune: Part Two, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and James Bond films Spectre & No Time to Die, recently talked candidly about her experiences of working in American movies with Harper’s Bazaar U.K. The European star elaborated, “The industry in America… I find it harsh on women.” She added, “It’s hard for women to age. I don’t want to be afraid not to be…

Actor-filmmaker Bradley Cooper is a loving father now, but he wasn't one always. On a recent episode of Armchair Expert podcast, Bradley had quite a candid confession to make about his six-year-old daughter Lea. He said while he was ‘fascinated’ by her when she was born in March 2017, he didn't exactly ‘love’ her. (Also Read: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Billie Eilish react to their Oscar 2024 nominations: ‘We are all so grateful’) Bradley Cooper with his daughter Lea at a screening of his movie Maestro.…

Lea Bertucci is many things – composer, saxophonist, bass clarinettist, electronicist, and performer of unique site-specific pieces. She’s probably best known as a leading light in downtown New York’s noise scene, making discordant, drone-based music that explores unusual textures and timbres. Part of her aim, she says, is to reimagine classical music from a noise musician’s perspective: using orthodox instruments to create textures that sound eerie and discomfiting by applying electronic processing and extended…

The French-Martiniquan musician has made waves alongside Joy Orbison and Wu-Lu. Now she is becoming a star in her own rightLéa Sen’s name is one you might be familiar with as a featured vocalist. The French-Martiniquan artist moved to London aged 20, and it paid off: in 2021, her breathy but direct vocal on Joy Orbison’s Better was constantly on the radio, while her contributions to excellent records from Wu-Lu and Oscar Jerome were also remarkable. But on her own work, the 23-year-old’s output goes beyond that.Sen, who…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe woman at the centre of the subtle but cathartic One Fine Morning is cursed by her consciousness. Try as she might, she can’t escape the fact that she’s ultimately alone, trapped in her own head, and tied through her actions to each and every person around her. It’s a torturous existence. Sandra (Léa Seydoux), a young widow, cares for her eight-year-old daughter. She also cares for…

This blunt media satire from Bruno Dumont stars Léa Seydoux as a French celebrity TV journalist whose life becomes part of the news cycle she reports on. Seydoux is terrific as tough cookie current affairs anchor France de Meurs, a bullet-hard professional with a Chanel wardrobe who unscrupulously deploys tears in exchange for ratings. But what happens when the tears are genuine and the pain that De Meurs weeps for is her own? A freak traffic accident involving a delivery rider causes her to re-evaluate her life, but the…

Whatever its flaws, this movie provides fans of French star Léa Seydoux with a treat. She is in closeup so much of the time: that mesmeric, feline beauty is cool in repose, a mask of indifference or mystery, but with a suggestion of late night indulgence in the faint lines under the eyes. She has something of Isabelle Huppert’s hauteur – although Huppert’s own faintly ironised blankness only came at a later life-stage. Seydoux’s hairstyling and maquillage are swoonworthy, particularly the arterial slash of lipstick. She…

The album cover for Lea Bertucci: Xtended VoxThe first time you witness a truly experimental vocalist, you could be forgiven for believing that you’re watching Vic Reeves’ absurdist comedy. These performers create art from all the stray noises – sibilants, clicks, breaths and plosives – that sound engineers usually try to disguise. Once you get beyond the initial shock and stifled giggles, these performances initiate a profound examination about the nature of sound, the inarticulacy of speech, the limitations of musical…

Good news, “Funny Girl” fans.Fanny Brice herself, Lea Michele, announced Wednesday that the current Broadway production of the hit musical is getting a cast album — 58 years after the release of the original “Funny Girl” cast album featuring Barbra Streisand.According to NBC’s “Today” show, the digital version of the record is scheduled to arrive Friday at 9 p.m. Pacific, while physical CD copies will hit shelves Jan. 2.“We have a little bit of a secret that we wanted to let you all in on,” Michele told the audience…

Lea Michele is performing “Funny Girl” songs on TV again — but no longer as her “Glee” character, Rachel Berry.On Friday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Michele sang a number from the musical and spoke with host Jimmy Fallon about taking her “Funny Girl” talents from Fox’s Emmy-winning comedy “Glee” to the Broadway stage. The actor and singer took over the role of Fanny Brice in early September after Beanie Feldstein exited the production sooner than anticipated.“I’ve been wanting to come back to Broadway for so many…