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Kirsten Dunst On The Power Of Good Roles, The Oscars (At Last), And Why Another Spin In Spidey’s Web Could Happen – The Actor’s Side

Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst is about the hit the big 4-0, which is pretty unbelievable when you consider it seems like yesterday she was just a kid. Well, that is what the power of movies can do in making you immortal at any age.

With a career that started at age 3 and included such iconic early child parts as Claudia opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview With the Vampire when she was just 10 (she got a Golden Globe nomination), later as a cheerleading teen in the well-loved Bring It On, playing Amy in Little Women, and of course Mary Jane Watson in the first Spider-Man trilogy opposite Tobey Maguire, it seems Dunst has grown up as we have. She has been blessed to work with great directors from Sofia Coppola three times to Lars von Trier in Melancholia (which brought her the Best Actress prize at Cannes), to Sam Raimi, Neil Jordan and so many others including Woody Allen in her first-ever movie appearance in New York Stories.

Now she even tops all that with her first Oscar nomination as Rose Gordon in The Power of the Dog,  where she is working under the direction of the great Jane Campion and tells me in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side that she would have said yes even without reading the script. Plus, she also got the bonus of working with her partner in life Jesse Plemons, who also got Oscar nominated for his role as George. We talk about all of it and much more.

To watch our conversation and get “the actor’s side” of things from Kirsten Dunst, click on the video above.

Join me for new episodes of The Actor’s Side every week during Oscar season.

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