Diane Kruger promotes film on kidnapped journalist

(CBS/AP) CANNES, France - In Cannes, where a lip of her latest movie "Special Forces" is being screened for film festival audiences tonight, German actress Diane Kruger described how she spent six weeks living in a yurt while filming the movie. She has no desire to repeat the experience, she said.

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The 34-year-old "Inglourious Basterds" star also prepared for Stephane Rybojad's film about a French journalist kidnapped by the Taliban by interviewing several female reporters who've survived kidnapping in various parts of the world.

"It was an eye-opener,'' she told The Associated Press in an interview on the terrace of Cannes' seaside Martinez Hotel. "It made me appreciate journalism a lot more."

The former dancer and model, best known to American audiences as Nicolas Cage's co-star in the "National Treasure" movies, is also a spokesmodel for L'Oreal cosmetics. She will play Marie Antoinette in the movie "Farewell, My Queen," due out later this year.