LS: It's amazing what Daniel did with Bond. SL: This is Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie, what do you think he has brought to the character? She's the heartbeat of the film, and the relationship between Madeleine and James Bond is more intense. She's very different from before, more developed. It feels for me like Madeleine’s another character. It was like five years after Spectre and so I was also a different woman, more mature.

When you act, you always also act with how you feel at the time, with your current state of emotions. So it was like I was in a different mood. I had only three months on No Time To Die. And the shooting time for Spectre was very long - it was eight months, it was the longest. First of all, the directors are different - they have a different style. How different was the experience from Spectre to No Time To Die?

So I asked if I could do it again and then I met Sam (Mendes, director of Spectre) and that's how it happened. I did the audition and it was terrible, I was terrible. But the problem is that I had a beer before the audition, which was a very bad idea. I had to meet the director and I did an audition for the part. I couldn't really believe that I would be in a James Bond movie. ShortList: How did you feel when you were offered the part of Madeleine Swann? Here she sits down with ShortList to discuss reprising her role as Swann, why having a beer made her have to re-audition for the part and the reason that, in No Time To Die, her character is the beating heart of the movie. Seydoux, born in Paris, France, made the switch to English-speaking movies a decade ago and since then she has starred in myriad classics, working with directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Ridley Scott.

Lea Seydoux is back as Madeleine Swann for No Time To Die and, as we find out, a lot of things have changed for both Seydoux and Swann in the (now) six-year stretch between Spectre and the latest Bond outing.

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