‘I LEARNED FROM THE streets,” says actress Léa Seydoux, perched on a plush sofa in the bar of New York’s Bowery Hotel. “I mean, I’m not, like, Jay Z,” she adds, laughing through the gap in her front teeth. “But in a way, I really did my own education.”
The “streets,” in Seydoux’s case, were the boulevards of Paris’ Saint-Germaindes-Prés neighborhood, historically the city’s cultural center, where, thanks to her parents’ bohemian tendencies, Seydoux was often left to her own devices. “I’ve always felt like an orphan,” says Seydoux, who was one of seven kids. “I didn’t have any structure.”
It was “the life of freedom, being your own boss” that drew Seydoux, 30, to acting. She had her breakout performance in the 2013 French film Blue Is the Warmest…
