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August 4 - August 11,2002 |
Making a run for the big time
Germany's Franka Potente hits Hollywood's silver screens with The Bourne Identity
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2002-07-21
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Franka Potente
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With that retro punk hairdo and long, lanky legs, Franka Potente is every bit the title character of Tom Twyker's sleeper hit Run Lola Run, the film that thrust both her and its director onto the international scene. Despite being a household name in her native Germany, 31-year-old Potente is quickly becoming Hollywood's latest "discovery," having starred in Blow with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, and now appearing in Doug Liman's version of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, opposite Matt Damon.
"Yeah, it is kind of weird," she says about her cult status, as she stretches her black-jeaned legs on the couch. "It's interesting because in Germany people have been following my work for about five years and they know all the movies I made. They have a different perspective of me and they ask different things, and they feel they know me. While here I find interviews not so tiring because people have a fresh and curious outlook about me. And that's nice."
The Bourne Identity follows Jason Bourne (Damon), a young man found unconscious on a beach by fishermen. His quest is to find out who and what he is. His memory is blank. He tries to remember things, but nothing comes back. One of the fishermen rid him of several bullets in the back and even removed a small microfilm-like pointer from his hip. The tiny pointer turns out to be the key to a Swiss bank account. After recuperating, Bourne heads to Swizterland to uncover the truth to his identity.
There he meets Marie (Potente) in an alley after a daring escape from the U.S. embassy in Switzerland where's he's suddenly pursued by a CIA operative. He's got a lot of cash. She's got a car. He needs to go to Paris. She needs money. While hiding out from dangerous enemies, Marie soon realizes that Jason is the "one" for her.
And the "one" for Potente, the man who "rescued" her life, is Twyker, the man that thrust her into the world spotlight with his quirky Run Lola Run which, sources say, he wrote with Potente in mind after seeing her in a television movie.
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