Diane Kruger, Farewell, My Queen

The blonde, German-born, French-based Diane Kruger explains how natural it seemed to play German-born, French-based Marie Antoinette in Farewell, My Queen, which charts the monarch’s fateful four days in Versailles following the Bastille’s fall and the start of the Revolution in then-distant Paris. Kruger marvels at having a Hollywood career (Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, the National Treasure series), ponders the dislocations of being a contemporary actress and suggests how she balances life and (very intense) work.

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