14 DAY TRIAL // The March 2011 issue of Glamour magazine has the always stylish Diane Kruger on the cover, striking a pose that rings some “Grease” bells. In the accompanying interview, the actress talks of love and how she doesn’t believe in the institution of marriage anymore.
Kruger, who rose to international fame with Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” tell the mag that one bad experience with marriage has made her turn her back on the institution altogether.
She was married to actor and director Guillaume Canet, they got divorced and he’s now expecting his first child with actress Marion Cotillard, the Huffington Post notes.
For Kruger, what’s important now is the commitment – and that it be as serious as possible – and not some piece of paper that is believed to tie two people together for life.
There is no such thing as the promise of an ever-lasting marriage, she says, which is why she’d rather get married at the end of the “journey” of love rather than at the onset of it.
“I was married very young. We were together seven years. Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don’t believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart,” the actress reveals for the publication.
“There’s no paper that will make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, that people should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning,” she explains.
Diane is now in a relationship with former “Dawson’s Creek” star Joshua Jackson and they’re probably already trying out her “recipe” for a happy life with your loved one.
In the same interview, Kruger says that, while she doesn’t want to get married, she can imagine herself with children – perhaps with Joshua, the Post notes.
The e-zine also hints that there be more to Diane’s decision than just one failed marriage: the actress comes from a broken family, where her mother left her alcoholic father when she (Diane) was just 13 years old.
“I also made a lot of boys pay for my father’s behavior,” she says.