Did The Director Of Blue Is The Warmest Color Push His Actresses Too Hard? Or Just Hard Enough?

Director Abdellatif Kechiche and his stars, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos were all smiles last spring when the Cannes jury gave the three of them together the Palme d’Or. A couple of months later, the actresses were telling the press that Kechiche was sadistic and the shooting a nightmare; the filmmaker accused the women of trying to besmirch the movie and destroy his career. With Blue now being released in the US and UK, they’ve changed their tune (a bit).