Diane Kruger: “I felt like a piece of meat”

Diane Kruger has also had less than pleasant experiences in Hollywood during her career. In an interview with Variety magazine, she said: “I’ve definitely encountered the Weinsteins of this world, right from the start.”

At the casting for the film “Troja”, which was released in 2004, she had to go personally to a higher film studio employee in her costume, the 45-year-old reported. “I felt like a piece of meat, stared up and down and asked, ‘Why do you think you should play the part?'”

However, the actress did not want to name names. “I was put in situations that were inappropriate and very uncomfortable. When I started, I just thought, that’s the way it is. That’s Hollywood.”

Her best-known leading role to date was Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, a film she was initially not cast in. Kruger is set to star as a cold-blooded film exec in Swimming with Sharks. In the new edition of the Hollywood classic from 1994 with Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley, which is known in Germany as “Unter Haien in Hollywood”, the leading roles are taken on by women this time. In addition to Kruger, Kiernan Shipka (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) will also star as intern Lou Simms.

“Swimming with Sharks” is the first in-house production of the US streaming service Roku and is scheduled to be released there on April 15th. Since Roku is not yet available in Germany, it is unclear when and where the series will appear in Germany.

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