Kirsten Dunst mentioned in a brand new interview with Marie Claire that she’s lastly at a stage in her profession the place she not feels “nervous” talking her thoughts, including: “I really feel at dwelling sharing the whole lot on set now.” It’s a giant change from Dunst’s expertise on the “Spider-Man” set a long time in the past. As a younger actor, Dunst didn’t have the arrogance to talk up when issues bothered her. Working example: Being repeatedly known as a “girly-girl” on the Marvel set.

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

Dunst added that “you didn’t say something” on units at the moment, particularly earlier than the #MeToo motion, and “you simply took it.” She additionally mentioned that it was a acutely aware alternative to not “capitalize off the ‘Spider-Man’ factor” and change into a “movie-star-movie-star.”

“That’s nice for some individuals. It’s not the artist that I need to be,” mentioned Dunst, who determined to go the indie route and crew up with auteur filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Lars von Trier. “It was simply rising up and migrating to issues that spoke to me. I all the time simply navigated with my coronary heart.”

That’s to not say Dunst would flip her again on superhero motion pictures at present. Would she ever return to the comedian guide world? “Sure,” Dunst mentioned, “Since you receives a commission some huge cash, and I’ve two kids, and I help my mom.”

Subsequent up for Dunst is Alex Garland’s buzzy motion drama “Civil Warfare,” which A24 is releasing in theaters and Imax this spring. She performs a photojournalist masking an escalating battle in a divided America.

“There’s undoubtedly much less good roles for ladies my age,” Dunst mentioned, noting that “each position I used to be being provided was the unhappy mother” after she earned her first Oscar nomination for “The Energy of the Canine” in 2022. “That’s why I did ‘Civil Warfare.’ After I learn the script, I assumed, ‘I’ve by no means carried out something like this.’”

“Civil Warfare” may have its world premiere a SXSW earlier than opening in theaters April 12. Head over to Marie Claire’s web site to learn Dunst’s newest profile in its entirety.