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‘Run Lola Run’ Star Franka Potente on Doing All That Running in 1999 Cult Classic Despite Smoking Two Packs a Day and Wearing Dr. Martens: ‘I Was Carried Along by All This Energy’
As 'Run Lola Run' gets re-released, Franka Potente talks about her preparation for the action thriller and the movie's feminist heroine
Unusual for the time, Lola is a feminist action hero in a genre that tended to relegate women to roles as supportive spouses or eye candy. That has a lot to do with how writer and director Tom Tykwer gave the film both a philosophical underpinning and a relentless narrative drive. And that’s clear in the way the movie mixes handheld action scenes with black-and-white photography, still imagery and animation as it untangles three what-if scenarios.
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