Lea Seydoux's 'difficult' nude scenes a few months after giving birth
Lea Seydoux has revealed the difficulty and pride of filming nude scenes for her movie The Unknown shortly after giving birth, while reflecting on how motherhood grounds her through life's struggles.
Lea Seydoux found it "difficult" to film nude scenes shortly after giving birth.
The 41-year-old actress gave birth to her second son - whose name she hasn't publicly revealed - in December 2024, and a few months later she shot some intimate moments for movie The Unknown.
While the No Time To Die star found it tough to bare all at the time, she is "proud" of her body.
Speaking to ELLE UK, she said: "They were difficult for me, of course, but it’s the body I had at the time I made those films.
"I think it’s important to see bodies that you can relate to ... to make it more believable in a way.
"It was a few months after I gave birth, and I’m proud to show my body, that is, a real body."
Lea admitted her own childhood was "a bit chaotic".
Asked whether motherhood has provided her with an anchor, she said: "Absolutely. It’s something that has really nourished me.
"Motherhood is my subject. I try to give a good education. I think that I really learnt how to be a mother, in a way, with my kids."
The Spectre star - who also has nine-year-old son Georges - is notoriously private about her family life and rarely speaks about her children or relationship in public.
In 2024, Lea admitted she finds life to be a "struggle".
At the time, she was starring in the futuristic film The Beast, which is set in a world where AI reigns supreme and people have had their DNA purified to rid themselves of emotion.
When asked if she ever thinks real life would be better if the human race was "robotic", Lea admitted she "sometimes" thinks it would be, because she "worries" about things a lot.
She told The Sunday Times: "Sometimes. I wish that I were less worried about things. I feel everything is a struggle, living is a struggle. But, then, anguish can help. Sometimes anxiety can be a survival instinct and you surpass your fear and transform it into something creative. You transcend your fears ... everything is a struggle.
"There is a line I love: ‘Le temps d’apprendre à vivre, il est déjà trop tard.’ Beautiful.”
The phrase translates as: “By the time we learn to live, it’s already too late."
However, Lea manages her worries by "making fun" of herself and tries "desperately" to be optimistic about things in life.
She said: "I learnt to make fun of myself. I don’t take myself too seriously. I try to be an optimist, but ... I desperately try to be an optimist."
