Léa Seydoux often feels "like a gay man".
Léa Seydoux
The 'No Time To Die' star feels more like an actor than an actress and all of her acting inspirations have been men rather than women.
She said: "I never say to myself, ‘Oh! I’m a woman!’ I know I’m a woman, but I also feel like a man. I always identified with actors, never actresses. I wanted to do cinema because I watched actors - I saw Marlon Brando and I wanted to be like him ... I really don’t feel like an actress, I feel like an actor ... I found that male actors had more freedom.
"It’s true that I saw that women [in film] were in more passive positions, because women do have a tendency to receive. I mean, in sex, the woman gets penetrated. Whereas what I like with men is … well, I mean, obviously, they have a penis! They give! And I like giving! I often feel like I’m a gay man, to be honest. I like men a bit like a gay man does."
And the 35-year-old star doesn't like the term Bond girl and thinks Bond women are as much of an "object of desire" as Bond himself.
Speaking to The Sunday Times' Style magazine, she added: "The roles have evolved a bit - the title is a bit old-fashioned now. I don’t think that a Bond woman is any more an object of desire than Bond is. With him, I think there is a female gaze - you look at him in a sexy way. When he gets out of the water in his trunks, he’s eroticised. It’s obvious!"
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