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  • Diane Kruger to receive Golden Eye award at Zurich Film Festival

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: German star Diane Kruger will be felicitated with the Golden Eye award at the Zurich Film Festival.

    According to American news outlet The Hollywood Reporter, Kruger will accept the Golden Eye honour, a lifetime achievement prize, on October 2.

    The award has previously been bestowed on actors Eddie Redmayne, Kristen Stewart, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Malkovich, Helen Hunt and Olivia Colman.

    Kruger, known for movies such as “Inglourious Basterds”, “Troy”, “National Treasure” films and “In The Fade”, will also present “Visions”, her new film from director Yann Gozlan.

    The French drama follows Estelle, a brilliant airline captain (Kruger), who risks her perfect life with her husband Guillaume (Mathieu Kassovitz) when she falls in love with a woman and starts an intense affair.

    “Diane Kruger is one of cinema’s most versatile character actresses.

    She not only becomes wholly absorbed in each and every role she takes on but also imparts her characters with great depth,” said Zurich Film Festival artistic director Christian Jungen.

    “In addition to her powerful charisma, she possesses the rare ability to captivate audiences with her irresistible, somewhat enigmatic aura.

    For these reasons, we are truly delighted to be welcoming Diane Kruger back to Zurich and presenting her with the Golden Eye for her services to the cinema,” he added.

    The 2023 edition of the Zurich Film Festival will be held from September 28 to October 8.

    LOS ANGELES: German star Diane Kruger will be felicitated with the Golden Eye award at the Zurich Film Festival.

    According to American news outlet The Hollywood Reporter, Kruger will accept the Golden Eye honour, a lifetime achievement prize, on October 2.

    The award has previously been bestowed on actors Eddie Redmayne, Kristen Stewart, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Malkovich, Helen Hunt and Olivia Colman.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Kruger, known for movies such as “Inglourious Basterds”, “Troy”, “National Treasure” films and “In The Fade”, will also present “Visions”, her new film from director Yann Gozlan.

    The French drama follows Estelle, a brilliant airline captain (Kruger), who risks her perfect life with her husband Guillaume (Mathieu Kassovitz) when she falls in love with a woman and starts an intense affair.

    “Diane Kruger is one of cinema’s most versatile character actresses.

    She not only becomes wholly absorbed in each and every role she takes on but also imparts her characters with great depth,” said Zurich Film Festival artistic director Christian Jungen.

    “In addition to her powerful charisma, she possesses the rare ability to captivate audiences with her irresistible, somewhat enigmatic aura.

    For these reasons, we are truly delighted to be welcoming Diane Kruger back to Zurich and presenting her with the Golden Eye for her services to the cinema,” he added.

    The 2023 edition of the Zurich Film Festival will be held from September 28 to October 8.

  • Was tough to convince Quentin Tarantino to cast me in ‘Inglourious Basterds’: Diane Kruger

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actor Diane Kruger says she had a difficult time in convincing Quentin Tarantino to cast her in “Inglourious Basterds” as Bridget Von Hammersmark, a German film star turned Allied spy in World War II.

    On a recent episode of the podcast “Reign with Josh Smith”, the actor said Tarantino did not want to audition her as he had not liked a film she starred in. “He auditioned everyone. He didn’t want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in he didn’t like. So he didn’t believe in me from the get-go. Literally, the only reason he auditioned me is because there was no one left to audition,” Kruger said.

    The 45-year-old actor, who is currently promoting her new action thriller “The 355”, said that she had to pay her own airfare for the audition in Germany. “I had to pay for my own flight from New York to go to Germany because he wouldn’t, even though, obviously, he’s American, but he wouldn’t see me in the US. So I had to jump through all these hoops that definitely put my nose out of joint, but I was like, ‘You know what? F*** him! I’m just gonna do that and prove to him that I can do it’. Thankfully it all worked out, but sometimes it just seems so unfair and you’ve gotta change the narrative,” she said.

    However, the actor believed the director was willing to look beyond his perception. “I think for him, too, that must’ve been a lesson. Sometimes you are the one that puts – and I’m sure I’m guilty of that too – you put people in boxes. You think they’re gonna be one way and then they’re not at all,” he said.

    The German-American actor, also known for her roles in “Troy”, “The Bridge” and “Into The Fade”, earned Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for best supporting actress for her role in “Basterds”.

  • Diane Kruger to headline indie thriller 

    By Express News Service

    Actor Diane Kruger is all set to star opposite Ray Nicholson in the upcoming indie thriller Out of the Blue. Set to be directed by Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man, In the Company of Men), the film is touted as a contemporary tale of passionate love, deceit, and the perfect murder. The story follows Connor (Nicholson), a man whose dull life is transformed into a thrilling fantasy world thanks to the seductive Marilyn (Kruger).

    As the logline goes, “He plunges headlong into the adulterous affair; the ex-con with a heart of gold seemingly destined for the raven-haired trophy wife. The only hitch in their idyllic new life together? Marilyn’s trapped in a nightmare with an abusive husband and vulnerable stepdaughter. ”