Kirsten Dunst has opened up about her brush with the dark-side of childhood fame.
Talking with The Telegraph, the actress shared that when she was simply 16 when she discovered herself in an extremely uncomfortable scenario with a male director.
The incident occurred when she was auditioning for a really wanted position, ”[he] had me in his workplace, on my own, and was asking me about this film he wished me for, after which, utterly out of the blue, requested me this inappropriate query.”
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Dunst declined to elaborate on any particulars of the scenario, not naming the position she was auditioning for, the director behind the remark, or what was mentioned.
”Truthfully, I am not even positive he is nonetheless working any extra,” she mentioned. “It isn’t one thing I prefer to replicate on.
“However I’ll say what he mentioned was nothing to do with performing. And it wasn’t that what he mentioned was simply ‘a bit off’. It was completely improper. And I keep in mind sitting there and realizing that one thing was improper, however with no concept what I ought to do.”
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Fortunately, after the scenario occurred, Dunst determined to inform her mum about what had occurred.
”That was the top of it,” she mentioned of her makes an attempt to safe the wanted position. “She withdrew me from the method and informed them I would not be making the movie.”
The Spider-Man actress shared that after that incident she grew to become far more cautious about who she labored alongside, growing a really “businesslike” perspective to maintain away undesirable advances from her male counterparts.
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But it surely was one director specifically that helped her develop her confidence working within the movie trade as a teen, occurring to grow to be her mentor and ally for years to return.
She first labored with Sofia Coppola on the 1999 movie The Virgin Suicides, occurring to do two extra films collectively, Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled.
“The way in which Sofia made me really feel about how I seemed on digicam gave me a lot confidence in my teenage years,” she recalled. “It is a bizarre age to be working in Hollywood, and I understand how uncommon and beneficial it’s to search out that sort of mentor.”
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