I LOVE Diane Kruger even more now. She’s promoting Basterds so she’s on the cover of Interview Magazine. In the interview Diane talks about how she stopped modeling because she wasn’t comfortable trying to portray something that is impossible to reach! She says, “I’m just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I’d rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is."

And then my two favourite parts of the interview, firstly she totally owns The Beil for her insufferable habit of stating that her exquisite beauty severely hampers her acting career. When asked is she thinks she’s too pretty to be taken seriously – she says "No, and that’s a silly thing to say anyway. Because, first of all, you sound like an ass if you say that. Brad Pitt seems to have no problem getting parts that he wants, nor does Angelina Jolie. Not that I’m saying I look like either of them (personally I think she’s just as gorgeous), but I just don’t think that it has anything to do with that. It’s the emotions or characters you are able to take on that will get you work, not necessarily the way you look (i.e. The Beil just can’t ACT – hysterical). Obviously, beauty can open doors — it is Hollywood, after all — but that’s not enough."

And finally, she’s so down to earth still. She also says that she refuses to live in a bubble and would rather be a real person and her and partner Josh could never live their life sipping cocktails at the Chateau Marmont. Neither were raised that way with both coming from really lower-middle-class families. Diane says “I don’t know how I could portray those people in movies if I didn’t know what reality is anymore. I refuse that."