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Franka Potente was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day when she shot ‘Run Lola Run’. The German actress, 49, shot to fame playing Lola in the 1998 thriller who sprints around the streets trying to raise 100,000 Deuthschmarks in 20 minutes to save the life of her boyfriend. She has now told Variety about how she wasn’t in shape while filming its gruelling running scenes: “I didn’t do any preparation really. I was probably smoking two packs of cigarettes a day at that point. “And I was doing all this running – I was running in rehearsals, I was running when we shot all the different takes, and…

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