From fashion to festivals, Life’s summer issue arrives with your Spectator this week. On our cover this time is the film star Diane Kruger — Helen in Troy, and a scene-stealer in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. A woman whose talent and sense of style I have long admired, when I met her in New York, she told me in no uncertain terms why Hollywood needs more parts for grown-up women. Kruger’s career started as a model in her teens. ‘If I thought about my daughter being 15 and saying, “Can I go away and live in Paris?” she reflected, ‘I’d be like, “Fucking get to your room and don’t leave your room for another year!”‘ Her feistiness turned me into even more of a fan.
Meanwhile, Alison Wolf, author of the brilliant The XX Factor, considers a less respectable branch of the film business, but one in which the women are often paid more than the men: porn.
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