German actress Diane Kruger told, for variety, a bad casting experience. The latter used very raw words to express her feelings, not hesitating to say that she felt “like a piece of meat“during the audition.
The action takes place in the early 2000s when the actress was still a young actress. While participating in the casting of a Hollywood blockbuster for the role of Helen of Troy alongside Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, she realizes that something does not suit her. “I met the Weinsteins of this world from the start“, said the actress whose career exploded after this role in the film Troy.
“I remember the tests for this film where I had to go to the studio in disguise. And I felt spied on up and down, with people asking me ‘why do you think you have to play this?’“, explained the wife of Norman Reedus. Diane Kruger refused to name the man who asked her to dress up for the producers.
“I’ve been in such inappropriate and uncomfortable situations…I think when I started doing this job, I thought it was normal. That’s what Hollywood is. Besides, I came from modeling and believe me, they have their worries too“, she continued.
The actress, recently starred in the series swimming with sharks where she embodies a film executive forced to perform a sexual act with a young nurse under the orders of her boss, a sick old man. The actress was then indignant: “Shooting this scene made me remember how some behaviors in our society are disgusting and unacceptable and it’s not just in Hollywood.“