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Not that popular in France...


In France, Cinema is known as a very difficult world to break through in. Basically, there are two ways to succeed quickly: either you're already a star from another medium or branch (stage/TV/fashion/sport) or you're the son or the daughter of another star. Your name must be famous before making it in the business. I'm not saying this is the way things always are, but this phenomenon is probably more prevalent in France than in US.

Léa has all the talent and looks needed for a great career, but she lately made a statement that made French people cringe, she said that she came from the "school of life" while she was not exactly your typical struggling actress, she comes from a wealthy family of industrials, and more importantly, her grandfather is the CEO of Pathé and her great-uncle the CEO of Gaumont.

Now, maybe she owes everything to her talent ever since she started in Inglourious Basterds, but maybe her name helped her to get this very start (it's not the kind of role to need a huge casting session), and some actresses of equal looks and talents would never get that little boost in their rising career, and sometimes, that's what makes all the difference.

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I heard through the grapevine that her grandfather was a pain in the az and didn't really provide financial support to her or her family.

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That's a lie, either from you or her...

A photographer friend of mine visited her family home in Saint German Des Pres to photograph her or Vanity Fair France and the wealth if which she grew up was insane. Her own father is Henri Seydoux, CEO of Parrot. He had plenty of money of his own, whether or not his own father was helping did not matter.

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Such a cliché point of view, you can break through the business with something called talent too ! Thousands of examples.

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What's cliché exactly? I doubt you'd find thousands of examples in France, like I said, most of the recent stars either come from another medium or are connected or related to previous stars, you'd be surprised if you had to count them all. This is not even an attack on their talent, or her talent, maybe it's something you do inherit, but you don't say you come from "the school of life" if you come from a Family that made French Cinema.

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American film industry runs on nepotism too

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I didn't know she came from the kind of money!

But regardless, she's beautiful and the camera loves her, and a good actress in English-language films, she has screen presence, and oozes sensuality on camera. She might have made it without the family money and contacts.

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