The film that features a love story between two women, "Blue Is The Warmest Color" won the biggest prize in Cannes, the "Palme d'Or."

While the award is usually reserved for the director, Cannes made an unprecedented move by making the two actresses co-awardees. Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos quickly became stars after this achievement.

The movie is about to hit the US shores, and there was a hint of controversy. There were proposals to ban the release because of the sensitive material. As expected, it was given an NC-17 rating.

The stars of the movie talked about the process of shooting the film. The director, Abdellatif Kechiche, was known to be a perfectionist and prefers to bring out the raw emotion as opposed to just a 'performance.' The extreme dedication to realism was sometimes too hard to take. In an interview with Collider, Exarchopoulos narrates how she stayed on the project because it felt like something special: "I never felt so involved in a movie as I did in this one.  During the shoot, sometimes when we had free time, we'd be looking at a magazine and see Marion Cotillard in Hollywood, and we'd say, 'She's so lucky!  We are here and smelly and making this movie, and we've done so many takes, and maybe it will never work.' Imagine if it never works.  We are naked, and it's not working.  So, we were dreaming, but we stayed, and we loved that because we felt that we were making something where it was nuts.  There was no fabrication.  I mean, no make-up, no clothes.  It was you, your skin, and your emotion, and it was so rare.  It's not like a conventional shoot where you come and you have to make this on time, and this, this, this.  It's like, 'Okay, what are you going to do today?  Adele, you're going to hit a girl and cry.  And after, we'll see.  We'll work.' So, we felt free, even if sometimes it was hard."

There was a rumor that it actually took them ten days to shoot the sex scenes. In the same Collider interview, actress Lea Seydoux confides:   "We spent many days.  I don't know if it was ten days, because sometimes when we shot, we could spend two days on the same scene, and then go back to another scene."

The movie is based on a graphic novel, "Blue Angel" and this is actually just the first chapter. The actresses had contrasting answers when the topic of working on the next part of the story was brought up indirectly. Collider asked about working with a director who asked for so many takes:

Exarchopoulos: "Yup."

Seydoux: "For me, the takes, it depends.  It was too many takes.  It was not just one hundred takes.  It was even more than that.  So, for me, it's not the thing that I like the most, I would say."

"Blue Is The Warmest Color" is in limited release this weekend.