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Kirsten Dunst:Stands By Her (Spider) Manby Lynn B.
Standing in the breakfast chow line at an L.A. movie studio where the recent Spidey 2 press interviews took place, we glance to our right and there’s Kirsten…short blonde hair, no make-up, wearing jeans and tank top, getting her eggs and bacon with the rest of us. Later, she spiffed up and donned a cute all black ensemble that she admits she threw together herself. Picture mini-skirt, spike heels, cute puffy-sleeved black blouse and a wrist full of bangle bracelets. The interviews were on a huge sound stage with press sitting across from the actress who would much rather have sat closer to all of us for a more intimate chat. Kirsten: How do you like our like musty, like, disgusting, mildewy stage? How many of you want to be at the Four Seasons? I do. AGW: When you were reading the script, it kind of looked like M.J. might be moving on from the Spidey series. Were you worried about that? Kirsten: Not really. I’m contracted and they don’t want to lose their only girl. They’re not stupid. AGW: How do you think you’ve changed and has Mary Jane changed since the first movie? Kirsten: Well, you it's been two years since the last movie so of course, [when] anybody goes from 18 to 22, you change a lot. I've grown up, of course Mary Jane has grown up. I think that's reflective in the movie and you see that she's kind of very much more mature than Peter. He's stayed kind of juvenile because he really doesn't have any social life. The last movie, he was the decision maker saying "We can only be friends" and in this movie, she decides for them which I'm really happy about. She's kind of the one pushing him to do things and it's often the man in movies that often pushes the woman. AGW: Yeah. Let’s see some girl power! Kirsten: I remember seeing the first Shrek and even in that movie, the ogre has to convince her (Fiona) that she loves him! So I was really happy that I just talked a lot with (director) Sam (Raimi) about writing her to be a very strong, independent woman. She's moved to New York so she's changed a lot. AGW: Did the huge success of the first Spider-Man change your life a lot? Kirsten: Not personally. I guess now I’m known worldwide I guess so I can finance movies. On a money or production (level), you know when you think of it that way it’s changed a lot for me. You know now it’s not a question of whether or not I can get people to come see a movie that I’m in so that all helped me and I get paid more now too. AGW: But what about personal stuff. Do more people recognize or follow you? Kirsten: I mean definitely. More people recognize me. I mean I still have the red wig and I live in L.A. where everybody’s too cool to come up to you usually anyway. They talk about you behind your back and gossip about you in Los Angeles, but when I go to other places, I realize that people know who I am because they want autographs, want to take pictures, but living in L.A., everybody’s kind of used to it. AGW: Was it strange when it looked for a while like Jake might step in when Tobey’s back was hurt? Dunst: That was really a complicated time, of course. And I’m just so thankful that Toby ended up doing the movie because he IS Spider-Man. I think Jake can do any movie cause he’s one of the best young actors and he probably would have done an amazing job, but I’m just happy that it all worked out and Tobey could do the stunts and they worked it out. AGW: Would it just have been too weird for you and Jake to work together on this? Kirsten: Of course, yeah. It would have been weird. I mean I would like to work with him but I’m glad it wasn’t this because I would rather do a more intimate movie with him where I could actually have, like, many scenes with him. If we had done Spider-Man, we could never have done another movie together probably. AGW: You have a kiss in Spider-Man 2. Did you feel like you had to top that first upside down kiss? Kirsten: Yeah, but I but I think we didn’t put pressure on ourselves. But you know you can’t top that kiss and we didn’t try and we have other things that are topped in this one so I think that if we try to outdo that kiss we’re just setting ourselves up for a disaster anyway. Kirsten: Sure it’ll be complicated because now you know, I mean if they do get together he’s basically risking his life every day and she’s probably worried about him risking his life and she’s in danger and it adds tons of other layers of complications. AGW: What were some of the on-set differences in this movie that weren’t there in Spidey one? Kirsten: The big change for me on this one was that I got to have my own hair and make-up person, my own person doing my wardrobe so I had much more perks in this one and so that was fun to have a little ‘posse’ cause I’ve never had that before. AGW: Do you think three Spider-Man movies will be it for you? Kirsten: It will be it, yeah. It will be. I mean I’m only contracted through three and I don’t see me signing on for a fourth and a fifth, you know. AGW: Would you want to see her killed off rather than someone else taking over the role? Kirsten: It would actually be really interesting if Spiderman died I think. Cause why doesn’t the superhero ever die? It would be so sad and beautiful. He’s so human too and I think that if Mary Jane was like alone and pregnant and he dies, you know she could give birth to a Spiderbaby and carry on the series with another young boy or something like that. I doubt Tobey would come back for a fourth or a fifth either. I hope she doesn’t die in the third. I just think that it’s kind of an obvious way to go. AGW: This is a very dramatic and emotional film. How hard is it to concentrate on the human moments when you are dangling from a wire? Kirsten: It is so hard. I mean because it takes so long the hardest thing is just keeping up your energy and to be there and present and when you are so tired because you’ve just done nothing all day and then you know that Sam knows that these scenes are the most important thing. If they don’t work then the whole movie doesn’t t work no matter how good the action scenes are. So we take all the time that we needed to get everything right and the dialogue and those scenes are the easiest for me, honestly. Those (emotional, dramatic) scenes are the scenes that I like to do. It’s the scenes where I have to look at this piece of tape and look at this thing blow up and then I get picked up and then I have to scream and my head has to turn this way. It’s not fun for me. I don’t like doing that stuff. AGW: But isn’t it hard to stay in a ‘romantic’ state of mind after a while? Kirsten: On Wimbledon (her upcoming romantic comedy) It’s just hard to like keep those romantic scenes fresh and feeling great and fun on take forty or whatever, just that freshness of flirting. It’s hard to keep pumping those things out and feeling in the moment. AGW: Did it feel good to play tennis in that film? Kirsten: Yeah, it felt good. It felt good to hit those balls. I saw the movie and I don’t even play that much tennis in it, but my backhand was great, I have to say. I had a great backhand. AGW: Are you generally a physically active person? Kirsten: No not really. I’ve worked out though. I run sometimes. That’s about it. I like to swim. AGW: Do you have an idea of what superpower you would like to have? Kirsten: I’d have a political superpower. I would rearrange pretty much all the circumstances in the world right now if I had a superhero power. AGW: In the movie, Mary Jane is an actress in the play “The Importance of Being Ernest”. Would you consider doing some theater? Kirsten: Wasn’t I terrible? (we say “no”). Well, maybe I wouldn’t do that play. I’d like to do something that’s a little more contemporary and not costumes and accents. I think that would be too daunting for my first theater experience. I read “Barefoot in the Park” recently and I felt like that was something that I could do and have fun with. AGW: Jake had a hit with The Day After Tomorrow and this film is going to be huge. Have you noticed a different in the media interest in you two? Kirsten: Yeah, the paparazzi follow us everywhere in L.A. It’s really sickening actually. In the grocery store even and we don’t do anything interesting either so it’s really obnoxious. But, if you get mad they just like it even more so I just ignore them. But we were at the dog park one day and we bought eggs and everybody at the dog park was throwing eggs at the paparazzi. AGW: Are you two at all competitive about who will have the bigger movie hit? Kirsten: Oh, God no. That would be not a very good relationship if we were competitive about that. AGW: Did you like Jake’s layout in GQ magazine? Kirsten: (Grinning) Ummmm, I thought the cover was really cute. I didn’t like the clothes they put him in though. AGW: Do you offer each other career advice? Kirsten: Yeah, of course. He’s my best friend so of course I’m going to ask him his opinion about everything. AGW: Would you do a movie together someday? Kirsten: I think we would probably do a small movie together. I wouldn’t be nervous about it. We’re actors and they treat us separately in the press. We’re just basically in like every magazine right now because he has a movie coming out and I do and I think that’s great that they wouldn’t think twice about putting us together in a magazine, AGW: What is next after Spider-Man for you? Kirsten: I’m doing this movie with Cameron Crowe next. It’s called Elizabethtown. It’s a hard movie to talk about what it's about because we just started and Cameron's very private and I just know that to respect him I'm not really gonna talk about it yet. AGW: Mary Jane really stands up for herself in this film. Is that a reflection of your own character? Kirsten: I mean I think it’s something you have to learn of course. But, of course I would stand up for myself. AGW: Did you like the romance in this movie when you read the script? Kirsten: it was so emotional and there were real scenes in it and you never find big movies that have that center to them still. I just fell in love with Spider-Man. I loved that the love story was the most important thing. I just loved it when I read it.
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She’s
M.J., that spunky redhead who can’t figure out a certain shy superhero
but loves him anyway. In Spider-Man 2, Kirsten Dunst shines as a strong
young woman who believes in true love despite all odds. Kirsten and her
guy Jake Gyllenhaal have so far defied the odds against Hollywood couples
and stayed together. The actress talked all about her man, her new films
and what she sees as a future for Mary Jane. 
AGW:
If Mary Jane and Peter Parker do get together will this be too complicated?