Kirsten Dunst says she was asked ‘inappropriate’ question by male director

Hollywood actor Kirsten Dunst has opened up about an incident the place she confronted “an inappropriate query” from a male director whereas auditioning for a job.

Dunst mirrored on the incident, which passed off when she was 16, in a brand new interview, explaining that it occurred throughout an audition for a really sought-after position.

“A male director had me in his workplace, on my own, and was asking me about this film he needed me for, after which, fully out of the blue, requested me this inappropriate query,” she instructed The Telegraph.

Dunst, who seems in new thriller Civil Battle, selected to not elaborate or title the director.

“Truthfully, I’m not even positive he’s nonetheless working any extra. It’s not one thing I wish to mirror on. However I’ll say what he stated was nothing to do with appearing. And it wasn’t that what he stated was simply ‘a bit off’. It was completely improper. And I keep in mind sitting there and realizing that one thing was mistaken, however with no thought what I ought to do”.

Dunst credit her mom with maintaining her protected from the “predatory facet of the enterprise”.

“I used to be solely in a position to keep away from that predatory facet of the enterprise as a result of wherever I went, my mom was actually all the time proper there.”

After the audition, Dunst recalled telling her mom what occurred, who withdrew her instantly.

“That was the tip of it. She withdrew me from the method and instructed them I wouldn’t be making the movie”.

Dunst started her profession when she was three years previous, and made her first function movie debut taking part in a minor character in Woody Allen’s brief movie Oedipus Wrecks, a part of the anthology movie New York Tales. She gained recognition in 1994, taking part in youngster vampire Claudia, with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, within the Anne Rice adaptation nterview with the Vampire. She went on to star in Little Ladies, Jumanji, Deliver It On, earlier than she gained star standing taking part in Mary Jane Watson within the Spider-Man trilogy reverse Tobey Maguire.

She is at present selling upcoming A24 movie Civil Battle, the place she stars as a military-embedded photojournalist documenting post-apocalyptic America.

Dunst talks about how the conversations across the inequality between female and male actors within the movie trade have modified throughout the period of her profession, and says that this was “simply one thing no-one even thought to query”.

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She stated she was paid lower than her male co-stars, although she had starred in movies with extra box-office success.

“Once I was forged in Spider-Man, I had simply had this huge hit with Deliver it On – so, you understand, I used to be truly bringing one thing to the desk. However I had no consciousness of that, nor even that the actual fact I used to be being paid a lot, a lot lower than Tobey [Maguire] could be unfair. So it wasn’t as if I used to be turning as much as the set each day feeling unhealthy about it. It was simply one thing no-one even thought to query”.

In a earlier interview with The Impartial, Dunst remembered the “pay disparity” between herself and Maguire.

“The pay disparity between me and Spider-Man was very excessive,” she stated.

Dunst additionally brings up how the disparity in pay isn’t the one difficulty when it comes to sexism within the trade.

Chatting with the BBC, she introduced up Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette biopic, which was panned by critics on the time of its launch however has now gained a near-cult following, Dunst says, “The people who had been watching that film had been my age, they weren’t film reviewers. Film reviewers had been previous males. So to me, the people who loved Marie Antoinette have now grown up and are like ‘We cherished this film’ however they weren’t the folks writing the opinions”.

“We grew up in a world the place it’s man-kind, man-made, man this, man that, that’s how we grew up”.

In a earlier interview with Selection, she talked about how she didn’t converse up about issues that bothered her earlier

“It was a joke, however on Spider-Man, they’d name me ‘girly-girl’ typically on the walkie-talkie. ‘We’d like girly-girl.’ However I by no means stated something, Like, don’t name me that!”

Dunst stated that “you didn’t say something” on units at the moment, particularly earlier than the #MeToo motion.

“You simply took it”.