Léa

Léa Seydoux’s character may have been a late arrival to Daniel Craig’s James Bond ensemble, but she nevertheless left a huge impression on his life. Not only that, Madeleine Swann served as a linchpin for No Time to Die‘s conclusive narrative, making us wonder if her character felt a twinge of guilt for the way things ended in the third act. Almost a year after the movie’s release in theaters, the French actor best known for her roles in Blue is the Warmest Color and The Grand Budapest Hotel has talked about…

These days, any actors looking to boost their careers sign on for a Marvel movie. This was not always a surefire path to success, however, and actress Lea Thompson claims that her turn in 1986’s Howard the Duck ultimately wreaked havoc on her cinematic career. Thompson, speaking to Genevieve Hassan for the Season 4 opener of the Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did podcast, reflected on what a poor career choice it was to star alongside the notorious cinematic duck. “It was devastating — in the course…

Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist outpost in Europe: Albania. She had no idea that Xhafer Ypi, former prime minister of Albania, a man she had to pay lip service to despising, was her great-grandfather, nor that her parents were anything but enthusiastic about the communist regime. In her award-winning memoir, Free, she recalls that in 1991, when communism in Albania came to an end, her parents revealed the truth and told her the country had been an “open- air prison for almost half a century”. She goes on to write…

The mystery of what the heart wants, and what it might get in return, is the theme of this humane, sympathetic movie from Mia Hansen-Løve. For all its tendency to soap opera, it has a lovely happy-sad sweetness. The setting is the briskly and urbanely photographed Paris that Hansen-Løve showed us in her second film, Father of My Children from 2009. Just as in that movie, she shows us familiar tourist landmarks without them seeming cliched. And of course, fathers again loom very large.Léa Seydoux plays Sandra, a single…