Ewan McGregor, Alexander Payne, and Diane Kruger will be part of the competition jury headed by Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti (We Have a Pope) at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in May. Organizers announced today that the trio would be joined by Palestinian actress-director Hiam Abbass, British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), French actress Emmanuelle Devos, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck.

The jury will judge the 22 films in competition and award the Palme d’Or. Last year’s big winner was Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and this year’s in-competition slate includes Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom and David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. (Source)

Diane Kruger says clothes are the “most intimate thing” to her as a woman. The gorgeous actress revealed she is conscious of how she dresses as she likes to make an impression on and off set. She revealed she was more sensitive to the costumes she wears in films thanks to her former work as a model.

“Mostly as a woman. Beyond the fashion side, clothes are the most intimate thing. I can manipulate them,” she said in an interview with French Be magazine. “The way I am going to undress, take off my coat, will leave an impression on you. It’s quite conscious for me. Costumes help you to be the character. As in life.”

The stunning star has named her favourite designers during Paris Fashion Week. She particularly liked the Haute couture designs.

“I haven’t seen everything, but I really enjoyed Valli, Versace and Chanel, of course,” she revealed. “Haute couture is an art. It’s really emotional to see the work done on a unique piece in the world, the hundreds of hours spent on one dress.”

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Diane Kruger thinks the Hollywood lifestyle can be “suffocating” at times. The star moved to Paris when she was young to pursue a modelling career, but soon became interested in acting there. Although Diane appreciates the buzz of film life in Hollywood, she admits it can become very stifling. She appreciates her more laidback lifestyle in the French capital.

“I live in Paris and I have a house in Los Angeles. Life in California is very cool, the weather is great and everything is about cinema. The waiter is writing a script, the driver who drives you on a set is a movie director…” she said. “At one point it might be suffocating. I need reality to feel alive. I’m European. I love to walk in the streets.”

Diane divides her time between both places. The 35-year-old beauty likes changing the pace between her life with American actor Joshua Jackson and France.

“[Living with Joshua Jackson] doesn’t change anything. I love to live in France, come back to my apartment. I will always share my life between France and I don’t know where…” she mused.

Diane is starring as Marie-Antoinette in Farewell, My Queen. She has drawn many comparisons between her character and herself, but has joked their similarities end at royalty.

“I’m German, she was Austrian. When I first came to France, I was very young and I didn’t speak a word of French. I felt alone,” she told French publication Paris Match this week.
“I’m almost the same age as her at the time of the Revolution and my mother’s name is Marie-Thérèse… Funny isn’t it? But she was Queen of France… I wouldn’t say I can indentify myself there. Let’s say we have similar paths.”

Diane loves living in the French capital. The star says she owes the country for her favourite film parts.

“I feel at home [in France], I try to shoot a movie here per year. I see myself getting old in France,” she said. “I thought I would have no chance in the American cinema. I admired French actors. I even started acting lessons in Paris. French cinema offers me my most beautiful parts.”

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Diane Kruger is a lady after our own hearts! Just by looking at her you can guess why we’re gushing, as she looked a vision of classic couture beauty in a spring 2012 Giambattista Valli couture dress.

One to bend all red carpet fashion rules, and, of course, a lady close to the heart of fashion’s outspoken Kaiser, Karl Lagerfeld; Diane was unarguably red carpet royalty as she attended the screening of Farewell My Queen at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The opulent polka dot and sequined dress was eye-opening enough to demand only minimal accessorising. Diane stuck to the offhand beauty of the gown and adorned her look with a set of cuff earrings, statement ring, a metal belt and a Judith Leiber wildcat crystal embellished clutch.

The Gothic glam appeal of her gown was played up with a slick of dramatic black nails, perfectly pitched against dewy makeup and a twisted knot up do. Diane will always be a fashion winner for us, and we’re definitely championing this red carpet super-hit!

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I’ve added over 100 additional images of Diane from the 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards held Thursday night. I thought Diane looked absolutely stunning in her Prada halter dress. It was nice to see Diane with her Inglourious Basterds co-star, Brad Pitt as well as fellow actresses Michelle Williams and Busy Phillips. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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Actress Diane Kruger feels her modelling background allows her to experiment with fashion.

“I don’t have my own stylist. And I like to be a little different. Sure, I’ve worn dresses people didn’t like, but I enjoy the expression of clothes. What you wear is one of the only things about yourself you can manipulate,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Kruger as saying. “I think my background as a model helps, because I like experimenting and I’m not afraid of fashion or what other people think of me.”

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In Special Forces Diane Kruger plays a French journalist kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Shot in Tajikistan, the French-language role is another that displays the German-born star’s penchant for changing nationalities, accents and languages. Last time out, in the action thriller Unknown, the 35-year-old played a Bosnian taxi driver. Also on her increasingly illustrious CV are turns as a German actress spying for the British in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and speaking German in the 2005 First World War hit Joyeux Noel She played a Chicago resident in Wicker Park and got her big break playing Helen opposite Brad Pitt in Troy.

“I always said that was my big dream as an actor, to be between two chairs,” she says about her jump from studio films to more independent fare. “I never wanted to be typecast as a nationality. This does have the result of consistently having to do more work for a role, to be able to speak without an accent in English, to be able to speak with all different kinds of accents playing other nationalities or when I speak in French or German.”

There is though, one accent the actress admits that she is afraid to try: “Scottish, oh my god, that would be hard.” She adds, in English that betrays no hint of her German roots: “It’s all a matter of rehearsal. You can learn any accent you want. It’s a fascinating thing.” Her skill with accents doesn’t extend to impressions, though. “I’m not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. I can do Karl very well, Karl Lagerfeld, because he speaks the same in every language.”

She doesn’t give a rendition of her Lagerfeld, sadly but adds: “He’s like my stepfather, I love Karl. He’s the funniest person I know. He’s a big inspiration actually.”

Kruger got to know Lagerfeld after she began modelling in Paris, aged 15. Her move to the French capital as a teenager came after a tumultuous couple of years. Born in the tiny hamlet of Algermissen, near Hanover, her parents divorced when she was 13. Her father worked as a cinema projectionist and her mother in a bank. She stayed with her mother, pursuing a career in ballet, but after auditioning for the Royal Ballet in London an injury put paid to her dancing dreams.

“From my modelling days, I have relationships with all these people and it’s kind of a cool thing that I still do that as well. It’s better these days as I now have more of a say in what I do and so I don’t sign with people that I don’t stand behind… It’s very cool to be the face of a perfume, that’s a very flattering thing. When Calvin Klein asked me to be the face of a perfume called Beauty I was like, ‘who are you kidding?’ when they told me the name. I was thinking people are going to say, ‘who does she think she is from Helen of Troy to Beauty?’ Then with all the work I’ve done for cosmetics companies too it becomes very global.”

She prefers to work on campaigns for products that are aimed at the High Street: “I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.”

This seems to sum up Kruger. From afar and in magazines, she seems to belong to a high-end glamorous, unobtainable world, but she really is just one of the girls. (Source)

Horizons, a scifi tale taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, is having no trouble getting actors interested. Tom Cruise is already attached and Jessica Chastain of The Help has been cast, but there is still one other major part to be filled.

They need someone for the other female lead, and according to Deadline, it’s down to Hayley Atwell, Diane Kruger and Kate Beckinsale. Apparently the three headlining actresses will be reading this weekend, after which one will have to be chosen.

The three female contenders are: Hayley Atwell from Captain America: The First Avenger, Diane Kruger from Inglourious Basterds and Kate Beckinsale from Underworld. So in other words, all three actresses have impressive film credits.

The role to be filled is of a woman who crashes on earth and meets with Tom Cruise’s character. In this world people typically live in the clouds — as earth is no longer welcoming to life — and there ought to be some alien fun as well.

Director Joseph Kosinski is the originator of the idea for Horizons, previously titled Oblivion. He had it published first as a graphic novel, but with the hope that it would be made into a movie down the line when he was no longer caught up in other projects. (Source)

- First, prep the hair with a texturing product (like L’Oréal Paris Studio Line Out of Bed Texturizer). Apply product to dry hair, as this is important to give the hair that piecey look and hold.

- Use a medium-sized curling iron to create some face-framing curls.

- Using your fingers, work the hair into a low side ponytail. If you have shorter layers you can twist the shorter strands and pin then into place.

- Twist the ponytail tightly until it starts to coil into the bun and use hairpins to keep into place. Finish the look with a workable hair spray.

Follow these steps HollywoodLifers and tell me if you like your braided bun look!

Diane and partner Joshua Jackson attended the charity gala dinner for the Liaisons Au Louvre II last night! As usual, Diane looked absolutely stunning wearing a lovely Alessandra Rich dress. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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