French Actor Lea Seydoux May Cancel Trip to Cannes After Testing Positive For Covid

French actor Lea Seydoux is meant to be the toast of this 12 months’s Cannes Film Festival with 4 movies, together with three in competitors. However sources say that the French star might cancel her journey to the South of France after testing constructive for Covid.

Seydoux has not made the journey to Cannes but; she’s presently on the manufacturing of a movie throughout which contracted Covid. A supply near the actor says she’s primarily asymptomatic and has been self isolating for over per week at her Paris dwelling.

A spokesperson for Seydoux confirmed she examined constructive for COVID-19 regardless of being absolutely vaccinated and asymptomatic. She is going to stay in quarantine till her docs deem her secure to journey to Cannes and attend pageant occasions.

In a plot twist worthy of an episode of “Name My Agent!,” Seydoux is getting examined every single day. She is ready for unfavorable take a look at outcomes for 2 consecutive days in an effort to make the journey to Cannes for the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” on Monday evening.

Seydoux’s different movies in competitors are Ildiko Enyedi’s “The Story of My Spouse,” and Bruno Dumont’s “France.” She additionally stars in Arnaud Desplechin’s movie “Deception.” The critically acclaimed actor has been talked about as a powerful contender for a greatest actress award at Cannes as a result of massive variety of movies she has taking part in on the pageant. She received the Palme d’Or for her efficiency in Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 movie “Blue is the Warmest Coloration,” which she shared with Kechiche and her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Cannes Movie Competition’s normal secretary Francois Desrousseaux informed Selection yesterday that there have been no Covid-19 cluster at Cannes 4 days into the pageant. He mentioned that out of a number of thousand folks getting testing right here every day, there are a mean of three circumstances per day. Salivary RT-PCR assessments have been carried on at a 300 square-meter lab tent adjoining to the Palais des Festivals.

The pageant’s organizers have barely ramped up the well being protocol in view of the Covid circumstances reported. Cannes’ organizers have now demanded that each pageant staffer endure a take a look at each two days, fairly than each 5 days which is the traditional requirement for occasion staff.

Matt Donnelly contributed to this report.