How cool is actress Kirsten Dunst?
Well, she made her film debut at the tender age of seven in a Woody Allen film.
At age twelve went on to star opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in the mega-movie Interview with a Vampire garnering her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
Her resume reads Little Women, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wag the Dog, Wimbledon, Jumanji, Bring it On, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Melancholia, Crazy/Beautiful and Spider-Man just to name a few. She had a recurring role on famed TV drama ER.
Her co-stars have included names you may have heard of Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Bettany, Tom Wilkinson and Kate Winslet.
She’s won awards, there’s so much more and her boyfriend of three-years is actor Garrett Hedlund.
I’d say she’s super cool.
Of course, it hasn’t been easy.
Her road from precocious child star to silver screen bombshell was paved with trouble and temptation. But the soulful, sardonic, and unfailingly unpredictable Kirsten Dunst was never destined to be a Hollywood cliché.
Next up is her role in season 2 of FX series Fargo.
Here’s a bit of the 33-year’s interview with Town & Country.
Kirsten Dunst on the expectations of actors:
“What people expect of an actor is totally ridiculous. It’s unfair that an artist is expected to speak really well in public and have skin tough enough to withstand sometimes really hurtful criticism, but also, in order to do the job, be really sensitive and in touch with their feelings. So all you can do is be yourself – just be who the hell you are.”
On how she used to be discouraged by the boys club mentality in Hollywood:
“You know what? I felt that way when I was younger, particularly being on the Spider-Man sets, which was pretty much all guys. But the older I get, the less I feel that way. What I’ve found is that the cool guys now want to hang out with the cool girls.”
On her boyfriend, actor Garrett Hedlund:
“We’ve been together for three and a half years, so, yes, it’s going really well. We’re the same age. We have similar backgrounds. He feels like family to me.”
On her character in FX’s Fargo, Peggy Blomquist, the mile-a-minute talking beautician, and the women in her family:
“She is very much like me at my craziest, my mother at her craziest, my grandma at her craziest. I could really combine the nutsiest parts of the women in my family. Some of the things [my grandma] would say, how she said them—I had a lot of that inside me already.”
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/a3486/kirstendunst/
Pictured: Dunst wears Altuzarra dress with LaPerla brassiere