That’s the stunning & talented Diane Kruger talking to Town & Country’s August issue, on newsstands July 5th.
Besides Hollywood’s very alive pay gap, Diane opens up to the magazine on her beau, actor Joshua Jackson, her humble upbringing in Germany and new life in Paris as a young model, having an identity crisis at age 30, feminism in Hollywood, and much more.
QUOTES
On leaving her home in Germany for life as a model in Paris at age 15:
“This whole other life opened for me in Paris. I met actors; I watched films. When I was growing up, the movie theater was 20 miles from my house, I spent every day watching The Nanny. After a few years in Paris I realized I wanted to go to drama school.”
On having an identity crisis at age 30:
“I had become arrogant. I had been a model, I spoke three languages, I had a career. I felt I had figured it all out. And then I realized that I was living in this very privileged life in my own bubble that I created and I [didn’t] know anything about what [was] really going on in the world and I [didn’t] ask enough questions… I made a lot of different choices. I cut people out of my life who I felt were enabling my bubble.”
On meeting long-time love, actor Joshua Jackson:
“Meeting someone like my partner, who has a very different perspective, who likes to travel in a different way and be open to various experience was so important. I was 30 years old and I was already bored of fancy hotels.”
On feminism and the pay gap in Hollywood:
“I have yet to be paid the same amount as a male costar. And absolutely I’ve been labeled a bitch, or difficult to work with, when I’ve spoken up about something. Or it’s ‘She doesn’t really know what she’s talking about.
Read more here: http://www.townandcountrymag.
Diane wears a jacket and shirt by Gucci and shorts by Levi’s.