German actress Diane Kruger remembers when she first drove through a Hollywood studio’s gates.
“It was like you see in the movies,” the “Inglourious Basterds” star says. Like others, she wanted to believe the myth about the business: “The whole American Hollywood dream is very much alive in Europe.”
In the new series, “Swimming with Sharks,” she plays a cutthroat studio head who isn’t above barking orders and making demands of everyone in her sight. Cool and calculated, her Joyce Holt, takes on an assistant – played by Kiernan Shipka – who comes across as a potential replacement.Fictitious? Not necessarily, Kruger says.Assistants, Shipka says, are always nice because they’re not worried about the talent. “She’s pretty sweet on the surface,” the “Mad Men” star says of her character.
Unlike Kruger, who didn’t enter the business until she was an adult, Shipka moved to Los Angeles when she was 6 and started working right away. Filming “Swimming with Sharks,” Shipka says, gave her a sense of what Kruger initially experienced. “It reignited that sort of magic of studio lots. As familiar as I am with this town, you do a film at Paramount or catch a glimpse of the Hollywood sign and something still happens. There’s a magic to it all.”Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion
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