Jason Hetherington for Variety “I’m pregnant. Will that be OK?” Léa Seydoux wasn’t sure if the timing was right at all. She’d been approached years prior by writer-director Arthur Harari to star in “The Unknown,” a science fiction film he was working on; Seydoux had read an intriguing but confusing first draft, then “just forgot about it,” she recalls. Now, Harari was ready to shoot, but she’d be stepping in front of the camera just barely postpartum. “Yes,” Harari replied. “It’s even better.” While making “The Unknown,” which premieres in competition at Cannes on May 18, Seydoux hardly recognized herself. “We shot two and a half months after I had my baby,” she says. (The child, her second with partner André Meyer, was born in December 2024.) “I was still breastfeeding, and I put on a lot of weight. I was quite heavy. I used it — it was interesting, because I was not in my body. This is what David is experiencing.”
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