Lea Seydoux: Ive witnessed the changes on set since [Video]

French star Lea Seydoux said Wednesday she had personally witnessed more respect for women on film sets since the #MeToo movement.

“It’s good that the discussion is opening up, it was about time,” said the Bond star at the Cannes Film Festival, where feminist issues have been front and centre.

“I am a witness to that change: I was an actress before and after, and I can only welcome the change,” Seydoux told reporters at the festival, where she appeared in opening night film, “The Second Act”.

Seydoux’s breakthrough film, “Blue is the Warmest Colour” — a story of lust between two women — won the top prize at Cannes in 2013 despite tensions on set between its director and his female stars.

Soon after, she and co-star Adele Exarchopoulos denounced Abdellatif Kechiche for “horrible” shooting conditions, particularly surrounding its infamous seven-minute sex scene.

“Even if misfortunes had happened to …