Léa Seydoux recently broke her silence about her serious mental health issues that she has struggled with since she was 18.
At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, the films of the 40-year-old French actress Gentle master And The unknown premiered, where she narrated Variety that she has experienced “strong panic attacks” in the past that felt very real to her as she worked through them The unknown.
Seydoux said: “When I was 18, I had strong panic attacks. Even now, I still have strong panic attacks – and when I have a panic attack, it’s the dizziness of being yourself.”
“I remember having a panic attack: I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, this is me. I am myself. What I see in the mirror is actually me,” she added.
The Dune The star further admitted that she struggles to connect with herself while watching movies she has starred in.
Seydoux joked, “Sometimes when I watch a movie with me I think, ‘Is that really me? Do I really look like this person?'”
For those who don’t know, The unknown starred her as Eva, “a woman with whom the film’s protagonist, David (Niels Schneider), has a one-night stand. David then wakes up in the woman’s body, causing an immediate crisis.”
The film, which will be released in French theaters on August 26, 2026, features a cast including Niels Schneider, Victoire du Bois, Lilith Warbler, Shanti Masud, Jonathan Turnbull and Valérie Dréville.
While Soft monster, a drama film, starring Lucy Weiss, “a pianist who has moved from the city to a country house in the hope of easing her husband Philip’s severe burnout,” according to the official synopsis.
