Poor Franka Potente. In 2002's The Bourne Identity, the 30-year-old German actress created the role of Marie, the streetwise Berliner who fell for Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin, Jason Bourne. This summer's hit sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, treated moviegoers to a nasty surprise: Early on in the movie, Marie gets whacked! Now, that ain't right.
Potente, who first popped up on America's radar in 1999's Run Lola Run, wasn't thrilled with Marie's exit either. She thought Bourne's brave girlfriend deserved better than to passively jump in his jeep, only to be shot in the back of her noggin by a contract killer — sheesh, talk about riding shotgun! — and end up at the bottom of a river.
"I had different ideas of the way that we — how shall I phrase this? — lose sight of her," Potente grins. "But the director [Paul Greengrass] is really good and he fought me on it. In the end, I guess the b
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Poor Franka Potente. In 2002's The Bourne Identity, the 30-year-old German actress created the role of Marie, the streetwise Berliner who fell for Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin, Jason Bourne. This summer's hit sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, treated moviegoers to a nasty surprise: Early on in the movie, Marie gets whacked! Now, that ain't right.
Potente, who first popped up on America's radar in 1999's Run Lola Run, wasn't thrilled with Marie's exit either. She thought Bourne's brave girlfriend deserved better than to passively jump in his jeep, only to be shot in the back of her noggin by a contract killer — sheesh, talk about riding shotgun! — and end up at the bottom of a river.
"I had a different ideas of the way that we — how shall I phrase this? — lose sight of her," Potente grins. "But the director [Paul Greengrass] is really good and he fought me on it. In the end, I guess the better
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