'The Host' Star Diane Kruger on Meeting 'Twilight' Fans

Scooten tag. She loves cats, can make a mean schnitzel, and can moonwalk like Michael Jackson. Stay tuned for my chat with the star of The Host, Diane Kruger. I am here with the gorgeous Diane Kruger. Great to see you.

Hi, nice to see you.

So, um, I heard that you were a big sci-fi fan. I love.

Yeah. Before even before this film. Yeah.

So if you had to choose Yeah. one last film to watch, would it be Star Trek or Star Wars?

Star Wars.

Oh, that was fast. Yeah. I thought you were a fan of both.

I love Star Wars. I like both, but like Star, maybe because I was much younger, you know, the first time I saw Star Wars, it just blew my mind. The old one, the original one.

The original one. So I know in this film, I know in past films you've had to learn to do a lot of pretty crazy things. I know in one film you learned to conduct an orchestra. Is there anything that you had to do in this film that you've never done before, or learned?

Nothing super exciting, a little embarrassed to say, uh, drive a stick car. But that car was insane. That chrome car. Yes. It's it's Justin Bieber and me.

Oh my gosh. It does look like Justin Bieber's car. Totally. Totally. Yeah. They made a good call. Hey, you want to cruise in a rally. But what about the contact lenses? Look pretty intense.

Yeah, they contact, they're weird, you know, they don't have lateral vision, so you you sort of stuck in the dark. You don't know where to go. Which is not good when you're driving a Lotus.

Really? I'm Stephanie Meyer and Andrew Niccol, such a great team. Had you, were you a fan of her books? Had you seen all the Twilight, had you seen the franchise before?

I saw the Twilight. I I I did not read the books. Uh, I didn't read The Host either. It was offered to me and then I read the book. Um, yesterday, we did a a fan like poster signing at a mall here in Los Angeles and that was the first time I got to meet, you know, her fans, and that was Oh my gosh. An eye opener. I didn't know. I mean, I knew, I knew, I knew, but I'd never like experienced it and it was something that I'll never forget. It was insane.

So in the spirit of the film, we ha, we wanted to get your thoughts on the on some things. Okay. Related to the film. Okay. If you could inhabit the body of anybody for a day, who would it be?

I can narrow it down to one. It would be Michael Jackson, Tom Brady. Um, I want to be Cindy Crawford at 19. Okay. Um, you know, I don't know. The Pope maybe for a day.

Okay, you're about to be occupied by aliens, but you get to enjoy one last meal as a human. What would it be?

Schnitzel.

I love your answer.

Yeah, that's the German coming out, I guess.

Are you a good cook? Do you cook a lot?

I love it. Yeah, I'm a really good schnitzel cook. It's hard to make. People, yeah, can you really?

What's the key? For anybody attempting.

The crunch, the breadcrumbs, and then the mixture of milk and butter and oil.

You know all the Twilight fans are going to be now making schnitzel in your, in your honor. That was. Okay. You are the last human to survive a dystopian future. What is the one item you would have with you?

A boy. I mean, just imagine.

Okay. The aliens in this film seek to create a perfect world. Fill in the blank. In my own perfect world, there'd be a lot of

I want to say cats, but I feel like that's a shallow answer.

Why cats? It's a great answer.

I just got a cat. I just got a cat and I'm totally obsessed. My cat. I have fears and worries of turning into this crazy cat lady because I can't stop taking pictures and posting them on Instagram. And like my friends have literally called and said, "You're insane, you need to get out of the house." Like it's really sad.

Have you watched, are you one of those people that watches the YouTube the cat videos? That what's that cat, the grumpy cat? Do you want to take hat? Oh my God. Yes, we had a cat in here. Little Bob. Do you know Little Bob?

No. What's Little Bob?

Little Bob, you gotta look him up. Little Bob was a little chall, he was a little challenged. He's got his big eyes, big. But you know what's crazy about it is the cat, I think the Twilight sort of like fan base could rabble, could rival the cat fan base because people line up for hours. Oh, it's really sad. Are you going to be that girl one day?

I fear. I have fears being like left by my husband and my kids don't want to talk to me and I live in a house with ten cats.

Okay. You are the host with the most and you're throwing a party. What is your favorite party style? An intimate dinner with friends, a costume party or a big blow out bash Vegas style?

No, more intimate. I I I rope my friends, uh, because I love to cook. But I always find, you know, you want to, you don't want to end up in the kitchen for hours. So I sort of make the the basics and then I rope all of my friends in to help me cook and they love it because it's like it creates, you know, you're in the kitchen, you're drinking, we're really getting hammered and then, you know, you're just making this feast and everybody gets to eat and it's really fun.

Okay. Do you think aliens, if they exist, are peaceful or are they warmongers?

Uh, I would, they probably have their own challenges, you know, they might eat each other. I mean, who knows? They have their own problems too, just like the human race.

They must. Like the human. Okay. And what one human trait about yourself do you wish you could wipe out?

Can be pretty, um, you know, too, uh, persistent in some things. You know, I I expect, um, too much of not just of others, but of myself. And so I consistently battle the urge to wanting to control. But I'm also a woman so I guess that comes with the gender. We all have an alien inside us, all women, don't we?

Yes, I think so. But it worked out in your favor because I know for Inglourious Basterds, didn't you camp out for two weeks waiting for a meeting?

Yes. So sometimes it helps. Yeah. Um, I find when it comes to boys, you gotta let go sometimes because it drives you, they drive you nuts otherwise. And in work, it helps at times, you know, yeah.

And cats will always balance that out. Well, the cat that doesn't give a sh-. So the cat is just like.

Maybe that's why I like cats. They're just like, no matter what I want them to do, they won't do it.

It's exactly true. And women. And other girls.

Yes.