Kirsten Dunst Says She Hasn’t Acted in 2 Years Because ‘Every Role I Was Being Offered Was the Sad Mom’

Kirsten Dunst laments a certain lack of quality roles in Hollywood as she ages.

In a new interview with Marie ClaireDunst, 41, shared that “every role I’ve been offered has been a sad mom” in the two years since her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in 2021. The power of the dog.

IN The power of the dogdirected by Jane Campion, Dunst appeared as a woman named Rose who marries a wealthy cattle rancher (played by her husband, Jesse Plemons).

Despite the film’s critical success, Dunst said Marie Claire that she felt frustrated by the offers that followed, explaining her absence from the screen before starring in director Alex Garland’s new drama, Civil war.

“To be honest, it was hard for me…because I have to feed myself. The hardest part is being a mom and…not feeling like I have nothing for myself,” Dunst said of that two-year gap. “That’s every mother — not just me.”

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“There are definitely fewer good roles for women my age,” she added, adding that the lack of quality roles is part of the reason she turned Civil war. In that film, she plays a photojournalist desperately trying to follow – and survive – the war-torn United States.

“When I read the script, I thought, I’ve never done anything like this,” she said of the upcoming film A24, written and directed by the director behind Ex Machina and Destruction.

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Dunst began acting in the late 1980s and early 90s, and gained mainstream popularity in the 2000s with roles in films such as Suicide virgins (1999), Just give (2000), Eternal sunshine of a flawless mind (2004) and the era of the 2000s Spider man trilogy, which starred Mary Jane Watson alongside Peter Parker Tobey Maguire.

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While talking to Marie ClaireDunst noted that she regretted not speaking up more when she felt bullied on sets such as Spider man.

“It was a joke, but move on Spider man, sometimes they would call me ‘girl’ on the walkie-talkie. ‘We need a girl-girl.’ But I never said anything. … Like, don’t call me that!” she said, noting that before the #MeToo movement, “You didn’t say anything. You just took it.”

Dunst’s husband Plemons, 35, also appears in Civil war, along with Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny and Nick Offerman. The film opens in theaters on April 12.

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