Kirsten Dunst
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So I had like a normal-ish life because I never was home tutored or anything.
But yeah, auditioning was, when it was a big role, like I remember this, it was like I auditioned for Interview with the Vampire, auditioned for The Secret Garden, and I didn't get The Secret Garden.
No, because I think because I got success from interview, I didn't have to audition for a long time.
Like, I auditioned for Little Women, but it wasn't frequent enough to traumatize me.
I auditioned for Spider-Man was the big next one that I auditioned for.
It started out as like, ah, fun, college money, whatever.
And then it was a little like, well, you're making the most money.
I have two boys, but like literally I'm getting ready for this and I get this sign.
And I let them sleep in bed with me when Jesse's not here.
I am like, actually, you know who we watch, Will, is the Lego Masters show.
It's like whoever's up next, like whatever happens, like we're still trying to figure it out, you know?
And I didn't really... I, like, had a blocker up, I think, that didn't compute what I was doing.
in a very little like school bubble, you know?
I didn't come into school like, hey, look at me.
I think I just didn't want to be singled out at school as anything other than another student there.
I didn't want anyone to call me out or be like... So I underplayed myself.
It was senior year, the summer before senior year.
San Diego Who Cares movie, the universal, you know, it wasn't like no one knew that that would be stupid.
I did it for my sons yesterday because we went to this 25th anniversary.
Well, we went to this 25th anniversary Bring It On thing on Sunday night.
And they had good pom-poms, so I brought some pom-poms home and I was like doing cheers for them and spelling their names.
Those are the only people that are going to get that show.
My son was like looking at me like I was like, whoa, like a golden goddess.
Actually, a mom recruited me to start a cheer squad at the school.
We all lived in this small town in Sweden in this hotel slash housing place.
And it was, it was just like cozy and really calm.
And so when I went like comforting, I don't know.
It was just, I just felt like, oh, this is what it could be like.
We were there in the summer, so we had a beautiful Swedish summer.
We enrolled them in the international school there.
And then my son had appendicitis and emergency surgery and then recovered for a week and then had a blockage.
I was like, everyone's like, drink the water there.
So this first part, I mean, everyone's had a shit year, it seems like.
But, like, the first part of our year was pretty...
I stay in my radius of school drop-off and neighborhood restaurants.
I like the car nights, but I never want to eat there.
No, Chili John's is on, is it Magnolia or Burbank?
Well, cheeseburger, extra spread, no onions is my vibe.
Yeah, that's why I turn the air conditioning off when I get takeout for home.
This shit better be rolled up in the bag real tight.
I hate when people come home with an open box of In-N-Out.
So there's a couple acting coaches, you could call them, but they're more than that.
And you basically ask yourself questions and write yourself a note at night of what you want to find out about your character.
And then whatever you dream, you write it down and you discuss it with her and implement it into the script.
Well, you're writing yourself a specific note at night.
So you're asking your unconscious to give you
And then when you're done with the movie, you write yourself a note.
I'm done with this character, blah, blah, blah, and sign out.
I'm getting so bad that if I read a script and the person talks a lot, I'm like, I don't know if I can do this.
Do you ever think about the audience judging you, though?
Like, oh, that person's just coming to see the girl from Spider-Man.
It's just, maybe when I'm older, I'll like it.
Listen, one of the only live things I did was Saturday Night Live once, and I had the best time of my life.
But I grew up watching that show, like, literally one of the best times of my life.
Well, I grew up watching the show, as do my kids now.
They'll call out people and be like, you know, will you put on the Bill Hader puppet sketch for me, you know?
Like, I show them Chris Farley with the Colombian coffee, you know?
We used to call our youngest, well, he's baby Chris Farley, but...
So when I was younger, I played Data Carvey's grandchild when he was George Bush on the couch, like eating popcorn as an extra.
It's like such a legacy thing for my family.
And it's in the, when you walk, like in the main hallway when you get there, little me is in with Dana Carvey on the couch.
I, honestly, the other day I dropped them off.
He called me once and he was like, I need to talk to you about something.
And I was like, oh my God, like this is gonna happen.
And then we finally got in touch and he was like, asked me about what it was like working with this other actor.
I was like, you know how mean that was of you?
I remember seeing him at the airport, like us meeting at LAX for the first time so clearly.
We just were- He doesn't remember it that way?
I just like, you don't often remember meeting, the first meeting with someone.
You could picture it in your brain really clearly.
It's like one of those things that like, well, I remember that moment, even though I didn't know this was my future husband.
like soulmate enmeshed kind of in our characters too.
And I just felt like I didn't want to not be near him is what I felt.
Even at lunchtime, like I'd be like, what are you doing for lunch?
Let's make a sandwich at Crafty because whatever.
We both kind of knew, oh, we were both in relationships.
And then both were out of our relationships.
He basically robbed like 45 McDonald's through the roof.
And he hid out in a Toys R Us for six months.
I mean, I did that on a TV show, but I feel like both those movies that I did, Roof Man and the plane movie, were so developed that it's not really, you know.
Yeah, I mean, I would have done anything with Derek.
So this isn't a part personally that I would naturally maybe gravitate towards, but I wanted to, again, work with him for the experience.
I kind of wait, but also I'd like to do something fun.
And I, yeah, I want to do like a comedy or do something big and fun.
Yeah, and I'll take them to the movie theater.
Yeah, I'd rather... If I watch a movie at home, I fall asleep.
No, my four-year-old likes Venom, the first Venom, which I probably shouldn't have shown him.
I mean, we're probably not good parents for showing them, but whatever.
Also, my child was begging me, my four-year-old, to watch Jaws.
I was like, okay, Jesse and I showed him the first 10 minutes and tried to explain that the girl is being pulled around on a rope.
When she's getting eaten alive in the shark.
I did that movie that's coming out next year on a plane.
Well, it's human doomsday, basically, on a plane.
So it's called the entertainment system is down because there's no Wi-Fi.
I don't think I really realized, like, you know what?
I was working on Jumanji and everyone's like, you're going to win.
And so don't tell a little girl that because I didn't win.
And then I was crying on, Jane Seymour was next to me, like for Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.
You know, it's like award stuff doesn't, like, you know, we all know, like, the good stuff we all love usually doesn't get nominated or doesn't win.
It's like, so really all you have is the experience of making it.
I had to audition for the movie on the plane for the entertainment system is down.
And that feeling, I hadn't been that excited to get a role since Interview with the Vampire.
So like to me, auditioning and getting something is like, that is crazy.
I auditioned for this movie with Jeff Nichols, the director Jeff Nichols called Midnight Special.
I felt, I was like, and I didn't watch it and I just sent it.
My improv was two people are sitting bored next to each other on a plane.
And I discover that he's been cheating on me.
So it's like, you know, hanging out on the plane, bored, do the whole, like, face recognition thing.
No, no, this is all, he wanted me to do this vibe, basically, the director.
And so then I see a memory comes up on the iPhone.
And it's supposed to be like him cheating with a bunch of different women.
So then I see that he's been cheating on me and I wake him up.
But at first I have to go through, you know, all the emotions and shit.
And then I just got pissed and I got up and shut off my phone.
I did put Jesse's camera like that because he's always shooting film of our family.
So I put his camera nearby so I had like a...
I don't know, a symbol, this is real actor-y right now, of him, of something.
I did because, well, like, okay, we were at the Oakwood Apartments.