Kirsten Dunst has remained relatively inactive in the acting arena since receiving award nominations for her stellar performance in ‘The Power of The Dog’ in 2021. But o this will be followed by her coming back in ‘Civil War’, a tourn in which she has never been seen playing before so this would be a radical departure from the other roles she played on screen. Dunst, not for the first time, has spoken about her two-year break and this time around was for the cuts and such similar roles that they kept offering her all of which were the same as what she had in the Jane Campion film.
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“There was a time when every role cast went to the sad mother. That is something ignorable to me. Almost after 35 years in the industry starting off scrape with the ‘Interview with the Vampire’ at the age of seven, it’s quite true that I had to deal with a lot of stereotypes as a side effect of my success in the field. She, after all, spent those months on what all mothers ache for – their children.
“Honestly it has been hard for me…because I have to feed myself. The worst part is being a mother, and there is nothing left for me,” Dunst said. “All mothers go through that period, not only me. Definitely, there are lesser quality roles for women of my age. That is why I decided to play Civil War.”
Getting the Message Across
Dunst also has a memory of one of the incidents that occurred during the filming of Spider-Man (2000) that I learned how to assert myself on set properly. “Over the walkie-talkie they called me ‘girly-girl’ because they said, ‘We need girly-girl.’ It was meant in a light hearted way, but I never asked them to knock it off. Those days, you kept quiet. You took it.”
Yet, while the situation has improved, Dunst admitted that the life of women in Hollywood is nothing less than complicated.