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Moderator: You talk about the love scenes being erotic, but they’re restrained…what was it like to film, to really capture the intimacy between the two of you? To really feel it?

Adèle: For me, I think this scene embodies a lot of the program of the movie regarding equality. I must say as an actress, I’ve been confronted with sex scenes like in some other movies and it’s always the same. It’s always the moment where you feel the most uncomfortable on set…

Adèle Haenel at ArcLight Collider FYC Q&A for Portrait of a Lady on Fire // Jan. 8, 2020

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Dexter Fletcher, Taron Egerton, and Jamie Bell at Collider FYC Rocketman event

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Noémie “look at Adèle just because” challenge (ArcLight Collider FYC poalof screening and Q&A // Jan. 8, 2020)

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Mod: “How many times did you shoot it and what was it like for you? Tell us about how you filmed that very last scene.”

Adèle had only one instruction: to finish on an inhalation. -Céline Sciamma

Adèle: “I think I prefer not to say what was happening while we were shooting this scene just because it belongs to [all of you].”

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Q&A || ArcLight Collider FYC - Jan. 8, 2020

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Moderator: You talk about the love scenes being erotic, but they’re restrained...this was very intimate and authentic, and again it was erotic but there was a tremendous amount of restraint to the intimacy, and what was it like to film, to really capture the intimacy between the two of you? To really feel it?

Adèle: (You mean the particular sex scene?) ...the problem is that most of the time the male director, of lack of ideas, treat sex like it’s sacralized stuff. They forget about humor, they forget about imagination, and ideas, which is not what we miss in this case.

(ArcLight Collider FYC screening and Q&A for Portrait of a Lady on Fire // Jan. 8, 2020)

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Watch full interview: Collider FYC Portrait of a Lady on Fire Q&A, January 8, 2020