This was not true for Gentle Monster’s ultimate star, Léa Seydoux, who signed on without hesitation. In Gentle Monster, Lucy and Philip move out of Munich to the countryside at the latter’s request, for a change of pace. **Gentle Monster was not an easy movie for Kreutzer to make off of Corsage. Kreutzer was inspired to write Gentle Monster after reading an article about the undetected prevalence of predators, working on it in the immediate aftermath of that scandal. Seydoux and Jella HaaseAs one of the anchor points on Netflix’s awards slate, Gentle Monster will meet a larger audience than the director is used to.