“She's not motivated by money. She doesn't do anything that she doesn't want to do. If that wasn't the case, she wouldn't have worked on my project.”
Kojima said Léa Seydoux was on his radar just as he was developing the character Fragile — he could not say which came first — and that he was not sure she would agree to the job. He said that while they were negotiating and waiting for an answer a strike erupted that complicated everything. He said Seydoux challenges herself with very different roles (she has even been a Bond girl), seems to want to try everything, is not motivated by money, and does not do anything she does not want to do; if that were not the case she would not have worked on his project.
“She really challenges herself with different roles. She's even played a Bond girl. […] She's not motivated by money. […] Last Ado was on my radar right at the time when I was developing Fragile's character. So which came first? I couldn't say. I wasn't sure if Leo would agree to do the job, so it was pretty difficult. And then there was that strike.”