Léa Seydoux's Busiest Year Yet Taught Her What Acting Is For

At the Telluride Film Festival this week, French actress Léa Seydoux reflected on a year that put four of her films before audiences, a stretch of work ranging from a body-swap thriller to a comedy about aliens. She said the pace did not exhaust her so much as clarify something — that after years in the profession, this was the first stretch that made the job feel real to her. Seydoux traced that feeling back to why she started acting in the first place: not craft for its own sake, but a way of confirming to herself that she is here at all.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.