Léa Seydoux On Bond 26: “Who Knows? Maybe Madeleine Swann Will Be Back”
04.09.2022 - 15:57
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Léa Seydoux who played Dr. Madeleine Swann in the two most recent 007 films, Spectre and No Time to Die, posed a mischievous question about whether audiences will see the mother of James Bond’s daughter in the next instalment of the long-running film franchise.
”After all I’m not dead,” she teased to us during a Telluride encounter. “It was James who died, not Madeleine. So, who knows? Maybe I’ll be back.”
“This is like fake news, right? But if we’re serious for a moment, Madeleine drives away with her daughter right at the end because James has saved them. There’ll be a new Bond because Daniel’s Bond died but who’s to say that Madeleine won’t be back?”
Such a supposition would give Bond fans, and there are legions of them in every corner of the world, much to ponder.
But the fact is not a lot will happen in the Bond universe until Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and their casting director, decide on who will inherit the Bond mantle from Craig who played the role for fifteen years.
Seydoux acknowledged as much. “I haven’t spoken to Barbara about whether or not Madeleine would make an appearance in a future Bond film, a lot has to happen before that stage is reached. This is just idle speculation as we talk on the top of a mountain,” she said referring to our location in the Colorado Rockies.
Coincidentally, Seydoux attended the world premiere screening at the Telluride Film Festival of hot film Empire of Light, written and directed by Sam Mendes who cast Seydoux in Spectre.
The Paris-based actress was up in the mountains for the North American premiere of acclaimed director Mia Hansen-Love’s film One Fine Morning in which Seydoux stars.
It was shown in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes where it won the Europa