Kirsten Dunst talks about ageism in Hollywood and returns to superhero movies

Kirsten Dunst

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Kirsten Dunst is opening up about ageism in Hollywood and why she hasn’t been working much lately.

In the cover story for Marie Claire As part of the Makers 2024 release, the Oscar-nominated actress explained that following her role in 2021 Dog powerShe was only offered one role: “the grieving mother.”

So, rather than take on any project, Dunst took a two-year hiatus from acting after Jane Campion because she wasn’t being offered the big roles she wanted and that she could get lost in that were worth her time.

“To be honest, this has been hard for me…because I need to feed myself,” she told the publication, who has not worked for two years. “The hardest thing is being a mother and… not feeling like I have nothing for myself. This is the case for every mother, not just me,” she added. “There are definitely less good roles for women my age.”

She was eventually approached about starring in Alex Garland’s film Civil warAnd she said yes. She explained to the publication that she had never seen a script like Garland’s before, and that she was eager to do something new.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Dunst also talked about how she was often drawn to female directors, and said she saw “strength in women” at a very young age, which she felt helped her not need male attention in her decades-long career. from time.

“I feel like I was hired because I’m someone (male directors) might want to sleep with.” Marie Antoinette’ name The star said. “I think that’s why I turned to a lot of female directors at a younger age because I didn’t want to feel that way.”

Dunst’s acting career began when she was 6 years old with an uncredited role in a film New York Stories. She was already relatively famous when she played Mary Jane Watson in 2002 Spider ManWhich propelled her to stardom.

Although she hasn’t done any other work in superhero films since Sam Raimi’s trilogy, she would be open to doing one again, noting: “You get a lot of money, and I have two kids, and I support my mother.”

Civil war It will be released in theaters on April 12.