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Troy Movie Screen Test Made Diane Kruger Feel Like
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Swimming with Sharks star Diane Kruger reveals that she felt like meat during a screen test for the
Iliad-inspired Wolfgang Petersen epic Troy.

BY BRANDON LOUIS
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Diane Kruger reveals that she felt like meat during a screen test for the Iliad-inspired film
Troy. The model-turned-actor has had a long career in Hollywood, with notable roles in the
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Inglourious Basterds, and most recently the 2022 action film The 355 as a German secret
agent. Kruger is set to star in the upcoming Roku channel limited drama series Swimming
with Sharks, a remake of the 1994 comedy of the same name.

Kruger starred in the sword-and-sandal epic Troy as the famed ancient Greek mythological
character Helen of Troy, a woman renowned for her beauty whose kidnapping led to the
Trojan War, as depicted in Homer's story. She was joined by Ocean's 11 star Brad Pitt as the Marvel Denounces Anti-LGBTQ Laws
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famed hero Achilles, The Lord of the Rings' Orlando Bloom as Helen's secret lover Paris, and
X-Men 2's Brian Cox as King Agamemnon. The film was one of the highest-grossing movies of
2004, making nearly $500 million at the box office.

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In a recent interview with Variety, the German actor says that she felt like a piece of meat
during her audition for the 2004 Wolfgang Peterson film Troy. During an initial screening for
her part, Kruger was asked to test for an executive in full historically-inspired wardrobe. Read
what she had to say below:

"I remember testing for Helen of Troy and having to go to the studio head in
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like, 'Why do you think you should be playing this?"

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Hollywood industry insiders explain that screen tests are generally filmed and then later
reviewed by pertinent members of the production. It is not a typical experience for an actor to
have a personal wardrobe test for a studio executive. Although Kruger declined to reveal the
name of the executive in question, she further explained that during her time in Hollywood
she has "definitely come across the Weinsteins of the world from the get go," referring to
Harvey Weinstein, the infamous co-head of the Weinstein Company who allegedly sexually
assaulted over 80 women over his decades as a major film producer. Kruger began her career
as a model in the mid-90s and claims she has previously been placed in inappropriate and
uncomfortable situations, stating, "I think when I first started out, it just felt like, this is what
it’s like. This is what Hollywood is like."

In an explicit scene from Kruger's upcoming psychological series Swimming with Sharks, her

character had to please her sickly boss by performing a sex act on a young female nurse. The
actor relates the scene to her experiences and observations over the years as an actor in the
industry saying, "Shooting that scene was just a reminder of how disgusting and acceptable
bad behavior was at a certain time in our society, not just Hollywood." Although Harvey
Weinstein was arrested in 2018 and convicted in 2020 on rape and sexual assault charges,
Hollywood and society have a long way to go to acknowledge its past wrongs and to make
efforts to ensure that such despicable things never happen again. Despite the humiliating
situation she was put through, she was praised for her pivotal role in Troy, a film that was
generally panned by critics at the time. Kruger's upcoming series Swimming with Sharks
streams on the Roku channel on April 15.

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Source: Variety

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