December 13, 200717 yr Here's another from the Movies Rock shindig with Double J. Japanese premiere of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, 6th December Dorchester Hotel (London) photocall for National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, 10th December Russian Cosmo (not my scans)
December 18, 200717 yr Diane Kruger at National Treasure premiere video 4 MB = 14 Sec http://rapidshare.com/files/77038204/Diane...re_premiere.avi
December 20, 200717 yr Men's Vogue Article German-born, London-trained, Paris-living Diane Kruger has ably made the model-to-actress turn. But does she ever sleep? By Michael Mraz Try to imagine a woman being considered too pretty for the movies. That's what many Hollywood casting agents thought of Diane Kruger after she starred as Zeus' daughter Helen, the most classic beauty of them all, in the less-than-heroic Troy. But after a few years of seeking out daring roles in indie and European films, the 31-year-old model turned actress has proved that despite her cobalt-blue eyes and bone structure that would have Aphrodite consulting a plastic surgeon, she has real dramatic prowess. And Hollywood has begun to take notice. "I'm trying to branch out with different roles," Kruger says with a sniffle over breakfast at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York. But she did reprise her role as the somersaulting historian Abigail Chase in the sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which opens in time for the holidays and figures to be another blockbuster. It's her costar, Nicolas Cage, whom some consider different. "I think he's the same person he was when he first starting acting," Kruger asserts, "just with less demons. A lot of people like to be eccentric; he just is. No day resembles the last one." Kruger's days don't have a lot in common either. After spending six months on location in L.A., South Dakota, and Washington, D.C., for Book of Secrets, in a couple of nights she'll head for Toronto to see her boyfriend, Joshua Jackson. How the guy from Dawson's Creek ended up with the daughter of Zeus is its own 21st-century tragedy, but after that Kruger will return to Montreal to finish shooting a Charlie Kaufman–esque romantic fantasy, Mr. Nobody, with Jared Leto and Sarah Polley. Yet she lives, ostensibly, in Paris. "It's my favorite city," she says in her pan-European accent, "though I'm never there." Moving around a lot is something Kruger has become accustomed to, having left rural Germany when she was 13 to spend her teenage years studying at the Royal Ballet in London, modeling in New York, and taking drama lessons in Paris. She speaks several languages, which comes in handy in her line of work—she was a host at Cannes this year and moved effortlessly between French, German, and English. "I dub my own movies into other languages," she says with a smile, "so I should get paid a lot more than I do. But it's fun working on accents." Sometimes she even finds herself speaking German on the streets of St.-Germain at the famously rapid-fire pace of her friend and neighbor Karl Lagerfeld. "He's probably the only person in France who rides around in a Hummer, so I can always see him coming," she laughs. I ask Kruger if she still feels pressured to prove that she's not just another model trying to act. She won't have any of it. "I don't even really look like a model—I'm not that tall and I'm not that striking," she says. Sensing the beginnings of a protest, she goes on, "You know how models are like aliens? That's not me!" It's all a bit much to believe, but then I'm reminded of the old line about beauty being truth and truth being beauty, which tells me that Kruger just might be human after all.
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