The first batch of photos of Diane at the Costume Institute Gala “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been added into the gallery! Diane, who is currently in New York City, looks absolutely stunning! Hopefully a lot more images will be made available throughout the evening! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
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I’ve added over 200 high quality (HQ) images of Diane from some of her recent appearances in 2011! Diane has given fans many amazing and glamorous outfits to admire! So far, one my favourite has been the Unknown photocall at the 61st Berlin Film Festival! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
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Diane is currently in Germany. Last night she attended the German premiere of her French film, Pieds Nus Sur Des Limaces, also known as “Lily Sometimes” in English. Diane looked lovely in her pale pink dress and bold red lip! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
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Diane Kruger and boyfriend Joshua Jackson spend some quality time together during day two of the Coachella Music Festival on Saturday April 16. The couple were joined by Vampire Diaries stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev as they lounged waiting for the next set of performers. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
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Thanks to my amazing friend Bri, I have added (or added to) three gorgeous photo shoots of Diane from 2011! As usual, she looks absolutely stunning! Many more photo shoot images will be added shortly, I just wanted to post these new ones right away! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
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Joshua Jackson swung by the Chelsea Lately studios in LA to chat all about his TV series Fringe and how it’s filmed in Vancouver. His being in Canada disrupted a great setup he and girlfriend Diane Kruger shared, which was splitting the year between Paris and LA. Nonetheless, he and Diane wear rings to show their commitment, and he also chatted about how she cuts his hair. He’s also trying to learn French for her, though it doesn’t seem to be coming easily.
Sony Pictures has offered Jessica Biel one of the two female leads in director Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake. Though, discussions have yet to begin.
At this time, it is unclear which of the two roles she will take. In the original, Sharon Stone played Lori, the dutiful wife (and spy) of Douglas Quaid (played here by Colin Farrell). The other female character was named Melina, as played by Rachel Ticotin, who helped Quaid join the Resistance in the fight for the production of air on Mars.
Last month, it was believed that Kate Bosworth and Diane Kruger were in the lead for these two roles. Those actresses are still being considered for the other female lead.
“Total Recall” comes to theaters August 3rd, 2012 and stars Colin Farrell. The film is directed by Len Wiseman. (Source)
The always lovely Diane Kruger attended the 2011 Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth last night in New York City. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
“By hosting the Green Auction, Christie’s is taking the lead with innovative ways to raise crucial funds and awareness for the preservation of our planet, and we are happy to be a global catalyst in such a noble endeavor.” – Edward Dolman (Chairman of Christie’s)
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Sony Pictures is casting up its Total Recall remake, which Len Wiseman will direct with Colin Farrell starring in the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are two major female roles in the film, and several top actresses are vying for them. First, there is the role of Lori, who started out the 1990 Paul Verhoeven-directed original as the happy homemaker wife of Douglas Quaid, only to transform into the bride from hell. That’s the role that really launched the star of Sharon Stone (who would star in Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct) and I’m told that Kate Bosworth and Inglourious Basterds’ Diane Kruger [Kruger's reps said she opted out of the reading] are reading this week for that role. Those readings began yesterday.
There is also the role of Melina, which was originated by Rachel Ticotin, playing the woman who helps the protagonist get to the bottom of the futuristic scandal on Mars. I’m told that Eva Mendes and Paula Patton are reading for that role. Studio insiders warn me that list is not inclusive, and I’ve heard that Jessica Biel could be in contention for Melina, Eva Green too, and that Mendes is also being considered for the Lori role. Neal Moritz is producing. (Source)
Growing up in Algermissen, a small town in Germany, Diane dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. She had won a place at London’s Royal Ballet School, before a leg injury led her to change tack and model. After five years that bored her and she moved into acting. Her parents divorced when she was 13 and she has not spoken to her alcoholic father for 17 years.
Acting, she says, offers an emotional outlet similar to that provided by ballet. “When you’re a kid you don’t really know what’s going on,” she says, “but I think it’s a way of excising pain. Those two, three hours a day get it out of you. I think that when I modelled that’s what was missing. Being German, I think we don’t really express a lot of things.”
It is tempting to place Kruger alongside Penélope Cruz and Marion Cotillard, European actresses who have found Hollywood success in the past decade, but she is quick to point out that she has had to approach it from a different angle. “Penelope has been very lucky to have Pedro Almodóvar,” she says, referring to the writer-director who made Cruz a star. “She made a career out of Spanish language films and then made the shift into playing a Spanish or Mexican person in American movies. When I started producers would say ‘we like her, but lose the accent’. I don’t think anyone thinks the German accent is as nice as the French or Spanish one.”
She can appreciate the irony that, having perfected a glossy mid-Atlantic drawl for many movies, in Inglourious Basterds and Unknown she has been required to put on European accents again. It doesn’t seem to worry her. Indeed, one gets the impression of a confident and driven woman just starting to relax. “I don’t have to work just to work anymore,” she says. “More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say ‘I don’t want to make that’.” Her dream director is Frenchman Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, The Beat that My Heart Skipped), but of those working in the US she is most excited by Black Swan’s Darren Aronofsky. “He makes my kind of movies,” she says.
She can also acknowledge the cost of starting her career in a frenzy of publicity. “Everything happened really fast,” she says. “I was away for two and a half years, I missed friends, some of my relationships suffered. I thought it was amazing but I also felt a little bit like I’d lost myself. I didn’t know where home was, I didn’t know what I was doing.”
The topic is off-limits, but one suspects this is a reference to her brief marriage and divorce from French director Guillaume Canet (now married to Cotillard). For the past five years, Kruger has been in a relationship with Canadian Joshua Jackson (best known as Pacey from Dawson’s Creek). “Definitely kids one day,” she says. “But no more marriage.”
In May, she begins shooting Farewell, My Queen, about the last days of Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. She plays Marie Antoinette, and laughs at the fact she’s portraying another of history’s famous women. “Everybody has feelings about these big, iconic women. Everyone has ideas of what they should be like or look like. You’re always setting yourself up.”
