Diane Kruger has accustomed us to seeing her in dramatic, historical and even action films… but not in comedy. It has been the tragic Helena of Troy and also Marie Antoinette. She has formed a powerful international spy alliance with Penelope Cruz, Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o. She has helped the Allies in an alternative World War II created by Tarantino already Nicolas Cage to look for a treasure.
That is why his role in Take me to the moona romantic comedy of entanglements which sets her apart from the characters we are used to. In this film she is Isabelle Lefebvre, a woman who wants to marry the man she loves, but first has to avoid the curse that weighs on his family: All first marriages fail. But she has a plan, and she will look for a man to marry and divorce, so she can say ‘I do’ to her true love. It seems like a perfect plan, but the chosen one is a travel guide writer whom she will have to follow from Kilimanjaro to Moscow. Will there be a wedding? Will everything go according to plan?
The actress accepted the challenge of doing comedy with a lot of energy and came to empathize with a character that does not look like her.“I’ve never been offered a comedy like this before and this character interested me from the start. Isabelle eventually realises that her plan wasn’t as good as she thought and ends up accepting her fate. She is completely different from me, but I have a soft spot for the character because I know people who look like her!
Cinema – Take me to the moon (preview)
Dany Boon, a guarantee of success
Diane Kruger couldn’t have a better partner for her comedy debut than Dany Boon. “Since I saw her in Feliz Navidad I knew she had a very funny side, but it has been a revelation. It is her first comedy and she trusted the team from the first moment. She is a very simple, approachable woman. We make a good comic couple!” The fame of this comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (although in Take me to the moon is content to be the protagonist) crossed borders with Welcome to the Northa box office hit in France that was also a hit in Spain and ended up with an Italian remake. Many of his other films have reached our cinemas: Nothing to declare, Superchondriac, A miser’s manual… He is the most famous face of French comedy and has even given the I jump to Hollywood by Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston with Criminals at sea.
He is not the only comedy master that the film features. He directs Take me to the moon Pascal Chaumeilwho had just reached the top with The seducersRomain Duris and Vanessa Paradis starred in this acclaimed romantic comedy that received five nominations at the Cesar Awardsthe highest recognition for French cinema. Laurent Zeitoun and Yohan Gromb, two of the screenwriters of The seducers.
Bad luck on set: a scorpion, a lion and an accident
The German had more than one unpleasant surprise during the filming in Kenyaone of the film’s locations. Despite sharing the stage with a lionthe worst happened behind the scenes. To begin with, on the first day he found himself a dangerous scorpion in his own room, under the bed. As if that were not enough, when he returned from filming the next day he had an even bigger scare: the showers were outside and there he found a leopard. They were only separated 5 metros. “I froze in fear, no sound came out of my mouth. If I had screamed, would have attacked me“, he told DH Sports+.
They also suffered an accidentIt happened in the early morning, while they were going to the set. They couldn’t call anyone: There was no coverage. “We had to walk for a long time before we found someone,” explained Diane Kruger. Despite all the obstacles, the German managed to overcome and succeed in her first comedy, which you can now enjoy on RTVE Play. The platform’s catalogue includes films such as the also French The Romance of Astrea and Celadonthe last one directed by Éric Rohmer, or The Duck Dance, a comedy with Verónica Forqué.
