Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson’s Lovers Lunch
They’ve been lying low as of late, but Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson seem poised to steal the title of cutest couple in Hollywood.
The two lovebirds went for a stroll in Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon (April 30) - with Joshua sweetly kissing his lovely lady before the duo stopped off for a bite to eat.
And in possible big news for Joshua and Diane, there may just be a baby-on-the-way, as a witness on the scene tells, “As the wind picked up, Diane’s dress revealed what looks to be a baby bump!”
The 31-year-old National Treasure star has been dating Dawson’s Creek Canadian-American actor, Jackson, 27, since early 2007.
Diane Kruger has ill-advised penguin / hula / waiter moment
Here at OSO Towers we don’t bandy about superlatives like ‘perfect’ and ‘national treasure’ lightly. Oh dear me, no.
Which is why I heaved a sigh from the very depths of my soul when I saw this pic of Diane Kruger at the Berlin Film Festival. (Actually probably not the verydepths, otherwise my soul would be really quite shallow. And I do save a bit of space for stuff that isn’t fashion related.)
Anyway. Long and the short of it: silly outfit. Tux-style top half, hula-style bottom half. The two were never going to work together, were they? Even if ra-ra skirts are the very thing for s/s 08.
Still. Love the shoes.
Eva Longoria Parker’s Guilty Pleasure
Eva Longoria Parker is not pregnant. This we know from hubby Tony Parker, who tells Le Parisien, “Not for the moment.” And from Eva herself, who says she gained weight eating pasta during the writers’ strike.
What we didn’t know about is her somewhat odd obsession with a slightly dated trend: Uggs.
The actress still owns the original pair she bought on eBay with her first big paycheck, according to an In Style profile.
And it gets weirder.
“Tony loves me in Uggs. He says, ‘Wear your hugs, honey’—that’s how he pronounces it with his French accent.”
Adorable. But at the same time, these two clearly have some style issues to work out before they can even think of assuming the responsibility of having children.
Longoria-Parker dreams of role with Depp
Actress Eva Longoria Parker poses for photographers as she arrives for the presentation of the Michael Kors’ 2008/2009 Fall/Winter collection fashion show during New York Fashion Week February 6, 2008. [Agencies]
Actress Eva Longoria Parker is desperate to have an on-screen romance with Johnny Depp - branding the Pirates Of The Caribbean actor “beautiful”.
The Desperate Housewives star insists the Hollywood hunk would hit the top of her list if she could have a romantic encounter with a celebrity heartthrob of her choice.
But the 32-year-old fears she would be intimidated by his matinee idol looks - insisting she’d be too nervous to work with him.
She says, “Johnny Depp. But I’d probably be too nervous to talk to him because he’s so beautiful…”
Diane Kruger in Leopard Print at Paris Fashion Week
Diane Kruger was spotted attending the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring / Summer 2008 show in France recently.
The National Treasure star and Dawson’s Creek boyfriend Joshua Jackson also celebrated the 150th Anniversary of French jewelry house Boucheron in Paris, France.
Pictured below, the 31-year-old actress (black dress, fur coat) left the “Grand Palais” after attending the Chanel Fashion show, as part of Paris Fashion Week.
The Rolling Stones and Diane Kruger on the Red Carpet of Berlinale tonight
Tonight was the opening of the international Berlin film festival Berlinale at Postsdamer Platz.
As a world premiere the new movie by Martin Scorsese was shown as the opening film, which was the first time for a documentary. As we previously reported “Shine a Light” is a concert movie about two shows of the biggest rock’n’roll band in the world - The Rolling Stones.
For this special event loads of german and international celebrities took the chance to walk the red carpet of the Berlin international film festival Berlinale.
During the evening we saw Patti Smith, Goldie Hawn, Diane Kruger, Martin Scorsese, Walter Momper, Hannelore Elsner, Corinna Harfouch, Heike Makatsch, Ralf Moeller, Marius Mueller Westernhagen, Mario Adorf, Senta Berger, Juergen Vogel and of course Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards.
The list would be too long if we’d line them all up cause the cinema was filled with celebrities. During the next days - till the 17th of the month loads more superstars will show up, like Daniel Day-Lewis, Shah Rukh Khan, Neil Young, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley and Sandra Bullock. One of the super highlights will be Madonna who presents her first movie as a director: “Filth and Wisdom”.
P.M. A&E: Gwen Stefani, Diane Kruger, Arctic Monkeys
• Gwen Stefani is having another kid. The hollaback girl and Gavin Rossdale are expecting their second child, Rossdale’s father has revealed to People. “They and the whole family are delighted,” Douglas Rossdale gushed to the mag. U.K.’s The Sun reports Stefani is 13 weeks pregnant. A rep for the singer has yet to confirm the news. Stefani and Rossdale wed in 2002 and have one son. Dose.ca
• Actress Diane Kruger and French star Sandrine Bonnaire will join the jury at the Berlin Film Festival next month, on a panel led by director Costa-Gavras, organizers said yesterday. The jury, which will award the festival’s Golden and Silver Bear prizes, will also include Taiwanese screen siren Shu Qi, Russian executive Alexander Rodniansky and Oscar-winning sound designer Walter Murch. Agence France-Presse
• Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys was nominated in a record seven categories for the NME music awards yesterday, while Amy Winehouse, critically acclaimed but currently in rehab, was largely frozen out. NME music magazine said the nominations, decided by public vote, made the indie group the most voted-for band of the decade and their generation’s answer to Oasis. The awards show takes place Feb. 28. Reuters
Diane Kruger, Sandrine Bonnaire to join Berlin film festival jury
Hollywood actress Diane Kruger and French star Sandrine Bonnaire will join the jury at the Berlin Film Festival next month, on a panel led by Greek-French director Costa-Gavras, organisers said Tuesday.
The jury, which will award the festival’s Golden and Silver Bear top prizes, will also include Taiwanese screen siren Shu Qi, Russian media executive Alexander Rodniansky and Oscar-winning cutter and sound designer Walter Murch.
Rounding out the list are Danish director Susanne Bier (”Things We Lost in the Fire”) and German production designer Uli Hanisch, Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick told a news conference ahead of the February 7-17 event.
The German-born Kruger (”Troy”) is currently appearing in “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” with Nicolas Cage. She starred as the wife of a South African prison guard in “Goodbye Bafana”, which was in competition at the Berlinale last year.
Cesar award-winner Bonnaire has appeared in films by the biggest names in French cinema including Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Agnes Varda.
Shu Qi is a veteran of more than 50 Asian films including the 2002 international thriller “The Transporter” and Stanley Kwan’s “Island Tales” in 2000.
Ukrainian-born Rodniansky is a major film and television producer as well as a documentary director in Russia and president of the Moscow media holding CTC.
Murch has worked closely with Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola for 30 years on films including “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather”.
A star of the dynamic Danish cinema scene, Bier got her start in Lars Von Trier’s Dogma school of filmmaking and made a splash worldwide with her 2007 Oscar-nominated drama “After the Wedding”.
Hanisch has picked up German and European accolades for the sets of “Perfume” and “Run Lola Run”.
The festival announced in November that Costa-Gavras would serve as jury president. He made his international breakthrough in 1969 when he won two Oscars, including for best director, for the political thriller “Z”.
He won the Golden Bear prize for best film at the Berlin festival in 1990 for “Music Box”, starring Jessica Lange.
The Berlinale is ranked alongside Venice and just behind Cannes in the ranking of Europe’s top film festivals.
It will kick off with the gala premiere of a Rolling Stones concert film by Martin Scorsese, “Shine A Light”.
Christy Turlington or Diane Kruger in Chanel
Who wore this Chanel halterneck dress best, Diane Kruger at the Chanel Haute Couture show this week, or Christy Turlington at the 27 Dresses premiere in LA earlier this month?
As I said before, the dress is pretty - the crosshatching detail is perfectly offset with the halterneck, but there is something about that semi sheer panel just below the bust that puts me off it. But Diane takes the cake for me because the new embellished Chanel bag is to die for and her shoes added some pizzazz to a otherwise plain outfit.
Diane Kruger Talks About ‘National Treasure: Book of Secrets’
Diane Kruger says getting back into character for the sequel to National Treasure, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, was a snap. Part of the reason why it was so easy to slip back into the role of Abigail Chase was because the cast and filmmakers had stayed in touch for the three years in between films.
However, although they were all receptive to the idea of a sequel, that didn’t mean they blindly signed up for the second National Treasure movie. “Both Nic [Cage] and myself and Jon [Turteltaub] were a little cautious about do we really want to make a sequel? We never anticipated when we shot the first one that we were going to make a sequel, so that is a weird thing for an actor. You go, ‘I don’t know…’ And then they showed us a synopsis of this one, the plot, and it was terribly interesting - the assassination and the whole thing. We cautiously signed on with the right to leave if the script did not turn out so well.”
Kruger loved the script and the fact her character comes more into her own in the second movie. “She’s more fun. She’s lighter and more sure of herself. She is so smart and so strong. I would like to be a little bit more like her,” admitted Kruger.
Kruger was never good at history in school because she couldn’t remember dates. “But I was fascinated with history. I am very well traveled. I make it a point to always go to the monuments and read up about it,” said Kruger. “If anything I hope this movie would encourage that. It is one thing to read about it in a book and remember a date, but it is another to stand in front of Mt. Rushmore and see it. I just think people should travel more, if they can.”
Working with Cage for the second time was quite an experience for the German-born actress. “He’s wild. You never know what you are going to get. Every day is different. He comes to the set and you don’t know what mood he is going to be in. And his mind goes four times faster than mine. He picks you up and takes you on this wave kind of thing.”
Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren joined the cast for the sequel as did Ed Harris who Kruger had worked with before on Copying Beethoven. Kruger admired how both Mirren and Harris approached the big-budget action drama. “They take this kind of job just as serious as the little pieces. They are not snobbish about it. They know as well as everybody else there is no greater prize or reward than an audience. Once you have an audience they will follow you anywhere.”
Mirren never broke out her Queen-ly accent but Kruger admits that even without it, the cast was a bit intimidated - at first. “She has that English accent anyway. The first day everyone goes, ‘Helen Mirren’s going to come to the set today.’ Everybody learned their lines and were very serious about it,” recalls Kruger. “And then she comes on and [with an English accent], ‘Darling, I can’t remember any of these words. It is impossible to say.’ Then she put them on walls or on the table because she couldn’t remember.”
As for physical hardships on the set, Kruger says it was the time spent in the water that was the most difficult aspect of the shoot. “It sounds silly but you are in water for three weeks, every day. You are fighting water currents, waterfalls. It is loud,” explained Kruger. “You have to scream your dialogue in a confined space with 60 people. It is like gross water. It gets old real fast. We had about a week on the big waterfall set, and then 2 1/2 weeks in the drowning room. And a couple more going down into the City of Gold and water and stuff.”
For the long chase sequence, Kruger held on while Nicolas Cage was in the driver’s seat. “You know, as actors you don’t get to do some of the crazy stuff but they had this thing where it looked like he was driving but there was someone actually on top of the car that actually wheels for us. So when we hit the bus, we actually hit the bus, but not as hard. You had no control of the car. You can’t break. You totally trust this guy with your life. That was pretty awesome.”