Here is another interview Kirsten gave to the Australian press to promote Bachelorette a month or so ago:
Crashing the bridal party
The Age 20/10/2012“I’M ONE piece of a puzzle,” Kirsten Dunst says. She’s not being modest or enigmatic just matter-of-fact about the way filmmaking works. She is speaking from Greece, where she is in the midst of filming The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith thriller. Searching for a word, she apologises that her “brain is at half-mast” but she’s quick, thoughtful and relaxed.
Dunst, 30, has made more than 40 movies, moving seamlessly from child performer to teen movie star to romantic-comedy lead to an actor with apparently effortless clarity. Her first movie appearance was an uncredited role, at the age of six, in Woody Allen’s segment of New York Stories; she was Tom Hanks’ daughter in The Bonfire of the Vanities; and Amy in Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women.
In Interview with the Vampire, at 14, she seemed simultaneously youthful and ageless as a spookily precocious member of the undead, opposite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. She has made films that have been box-office hits and critical favourites, such as the cheerleader movie Bring It On and the smart and soulful superhero movie Spider-Man (she has called Spider-Man an “independently minded blockbuster”).
There’s a lightness and a transparency but also an earthiness to her performances, whether she’s the love interest in Spider-Man or the office assistant in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or the dream girl at the centre of Sofia Coppola’s exquisite The Virgin Suicides.
