Nevertheless, she aced it at every step.
In her 20s, Dunst confronted depression and creative confusion.
Then, as she aged, the industry began typecasting her in roles that limited her artistry.
Here are tragic details about Kirsten Dunst that inform her career as an award-winning actor.
“My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her.
She just knew that I was destined to be an actress,” Dunst toldThe Telegraph.
I didn’t feel Shirley Temple’d."
“It’s not something I like to reflect on.”
Inez Dunst kept her daughter grounded and shielded from trouble through her time as a young actor.
I’m not kissing his ass!'"
But that distinction hardly gave her immunity against Hollywood’s tendency to pay female actors less.
“The pay disparity between me and Spider-Man was very extreme,” she toldThe Independent.
“I didn’t even think about it.
I was just like, ‘Oh yeah, Tobey [Maguire] is playing Spider-Man.'”
It was just something no one even thought to question," she told The Telegraph.
She put her foot down and stayed in the car.
She was like, ‘I love your teeth!'"
she said, referring to collaborator and friend Sofia Coppola.
“I’d rather get old and do good roles.”
“Seriously, I’m 22 years old.
It’s so annoying that they put pressure on you,” she toldPeoplethen.
Beloved as the celebrity relationship was, it failed to last, and the two parted ways in 2004.
“Kirsten and I know what’s real and what isn’t,” Gyllenhaal said at the time.
“For a long time, I never got angry with anybody.
I just swallowed a lot down,” she toldThe New York Times.
Eventually, it all boiled over.
you could’t survive like that."
Yet somehow, the industry stopped tapping into it as well as it should have.
Sidestepping offers for such roles translated to a two-year lull in Dunst’s vibrant filmography.
But it wasn’t a crossroads she hadn’t arrived at before.
As director Alex Garland put it, Dunst “let herself live inside the film.”
“We had each other through this whole thing,” she said.
