Directors Who Totally Screwed With Their Actors
By Emily Bell
Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux may have earned unanimous praise for their performances in the French drama Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), but the actual production of the movie was anything but fun. The reason: according to reports, the stars were repeatedly manipulated and harassed by the film's director, Abdellatif Kechiche. Speaking to The Daily Beast in 2013, the actresses recounted their "horrible" experience filming the critically acclaimed movie, including the film's big fight scene, which was apparently real. "[Kechiche] shot with three cameras, so the fight scene was a one-hour continuous take," Seydoux said. "And during the shooting, I had to push her out of a glass door and scream, 'Now go away!' And [Adèle] slapped the door and cut herself and was bleeding everywhere and crying with her nose running ... Then after, [Kechiche] said, 'No, we're not finished. We're doing it again.'" Naturally, Exarchopoulos and Seydoux said they have no plans to work for Kechiche again.
