Acting is probably the most difficult job on Earth. There is genuinely nothing harder in the world than memorising two lines of speech, saying them while being lit to make you look prettier than you really are and getting paid truckloads of cash for it.
Kirsten Dunst knows how hard acting is – in fact, Kirsten Dunst finds acting so hard that she's probably not going to bother doing any more of it. Apparently the experience of some French people not liking a film she was in once affected Kirsten Dunst so deeply that she wants to quit acting forever and do something less demanding – like working on an oil rig, being a cleaner in a nursing home or getting paid to open tincans with her messed-up teeth, for instance.
Acting hasn't given Kirsten Dunst the easiest of rides in the past. True, thanks to starring in movies like the Spider-Man trilogy Kirsten Dunst has been gifted millions of dollars, all kinds of award nominations, global recognition, a lifestyle that is the envy of the world and a preening fuck-ugly prick of a boyfriend – but, you know, some people booed at her once and so Kirsten Dunst is probably just going to quit acting, as Sky reports:
"I was in a lot of pain while I was making Spider-Man 3. Afterwards, I was done with acting. When I finished the film, I needed a very long break from movies. I didn't care about acting and I haven't worked since, because that's the thing that's been causing the most pain."
To be fair, though, people were booing Kirsten Dunst because she was in a film about Marie Antoinette – one of the most famous historical French figures of all time. And she played her with an American accent. And she was showing it to French people. In France. But that fact alone can't heal Kirsten Dunst's acting-related pain:
"Cannes was difficult… a few people booed at one of the screenings. It was like they shit on the film. I was so angry about the way people were talking about it and fed up with this business. The movie was personal to me. It felt like everyone was stamping on me."
Now there's a mental image to toy with. Anyway, IMDb says that Kirsten Dunst is lined up for a movie about Iraq – and she could be playing Debbie Harry in a Michel Gondry-directed Blondie biopic – so maybe all this whining is just nothing more than a bit of attention seeking.
But maybe it isn't. Maybe Kirsten Dunst really is through with acting. After all, when you're not in the spotlight you can get twatted on booze without anyone caring and any very simplistic job-related mistakes you make won't get splashed around the press. Granted, getting a proper job will mean that Kirsten Dunst will get paid buttons in return for participating in a tortuous soul-sapping daily routine that'll eat up her whole life before she's realised where it's gone, but – hey – at least it means that there won't be a Wimbledon 2.
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roger webrook says
I actually sat through all of Marie Antoinette waiting for Dunst to deliver a line in a true and timely fashion. But all was not lost. When the movie ended, the manager of the theatre was at the exit door giving eveyone
their money back.
Elle Scully says
I actually thought Wimbledon was excellent and Dunst quite believable in a role the was perfectly cast for. Perhaps in her real life she was hoping for an English gent like she got in that film and instead ended up with the horrid Johnny Borrell. Look for Hermione Granger to take a similar tumble if she pins her hopes on that creep.
luv2sleep says
I guess people don’t realize how much of a fucked up job it really is, and how much you lose when you are big in lights. having to deal with paparazi in your face invading your privacy is enough to make anyone nuts.