, as a Parisian outsider who wanders the highways and motels of the American southwest and finds an unlikely romance with a laconic park ranger, also led to her real-life relationship with actor Norman Reedus, with whom she has a four-year-old child. Currently, she is developing a years-long project withdirector Fatih Akin on Marlene Dietrich, in which Kruger will portray the German actress, introduced to her so many years ago by her grandmother.
I ask her if playing femmes fatales like Cavendish, von Hammersmark and Marie Antoinette might inform the way that she approaches Dietrich. She considers the proposition for a few moments and says no. “I think what interests me most about Marlene is the real person behind that facade of the femme fatale.
She says that at the heart of Dietrich’s life lay a compelling conundrum: “How do you defend your country even when you decide to leave it, and you’re being treated as this traitor?” Even at her furthest remove from her homeland, Dietrich was still deeply German, Kruger explains, relaying a story that she had recently heard from Dietrich’s grandson to illustrate her point. According to him, the Hollywood star would always leave the house with the parting words, “I’ve got to go to work.
Like the elusive Clare Cavendish, Dietrich bore many secrets beneath a glamorous face. Ultimately, they compelled her to pursue the life of an outsider, but one committed to a personal truth about all that she had left behind. In the same way, Kruger has continued to find her most compelling roles from the outside, and doing so has allowed her to see more clearly the mysteries and secrets residing at the centre.
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