Kirsten Dunst would do another superhero movie, for the money
Spider-Man star Kirsten Dunst has built an indie career, but she'd do another superhero flick for the right price
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Though we think of them eating caviar up in ivory towers, Hollywood actors nevertheless have to put food on the table. (Caviar is still food!) Kirsten Dunst, for example, is a famous star, but she is also kind of an indie darling, and indies don’t always pay the bills, darling. That’s why cinema’s (original) Mary Jane Watson says she’d like to work on a regular television show, or, she tells Marie Claire, return to the superhero industrial complex, “because you get paid a lot of money, and I have two children, and I support my mother.”
There is a time-honored tradition of actors being completely upfront about taking a job—particularly a sub-par job—for the paycheck. And the superhero industrial complex usually comes with a big paycheck, so let’s all be honest here, that’s a big draw. There are a few of these honest souls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “You know what? I had no interest in doing one of those films,” writer-actor-director Taika Waititi admitted of his Thor days on the Smartless podcast. “It wasn’t on my plan for my career as an auteur. But I was poor and I’d just had a second child, and I thought, ‘You know what, this would be a great opportunity to feed these children.’” And Glenn Close, who had a minor role in Guardians Of The Galaxy, admitted (via Buzzfeed), “I’m gonna go off and do the next generation of Marvel Comics/Disney and I get to be the chief police of the galaxy… I’m doing that because it will then afford me to go do the other kind of movies that I really love, and hopefully I will have a great time. It’ll be a new experience for me, but practically speaking it will mean that I can do those smaller movies and it’ll be okay.”
Dunst herself admits to Marie Claire that she had no desire to “capitalize off the Spider-Man thing” to become a “movie-star-movie-star” back when she was starring in the Sam Raimi trilogy, which she refers to as a “hidden indie.” But, now she’s a mom with different responsibilities, so she seems ready to do some capitalizing. With the dawn of the multiverse, she could come back as MJ, but there’s also precedent for an actor starting as a character in another studio’s Marvel movie and being someone completely different in the MCU (see: Chris Evans in Fantastic Four and Captain America). Or she could be a totally different superhero over at DC, or something. C’mon, guys, let’s get Dunst her cash!
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“I don’t do this for my health! I don’t do anything for my health!”
Put her husband in a superhero movie. I could totally see Jesse Plemmons playing an X-Men villain who wants to make it illegal to be a mutant or some shit.
Still think he’s convinced her he’s really Matt Damon. Otherwise, I don’t get it.
He could be the MCU’s Graydon Creed.
Her net worth is reportedly $25-30 million. Think she will be ok.
Right I had to lol a little bit at supporting two whole children AND her mom. There are people supporting more folks than that on $30K a year. Like, it’s fine, she wants money and that’s fine–I do too! But I would have respected it more if she was just like it pays a lot and I like that. That’s universal. She didn’t need to make it seem like she *needs* this money to support three people when she could never work again and have enough for them and plenty left over.
Jesus fucking Christ you people are a joke
Yeah, Michael Caine’s famous comment about Jaws 4 is much more honest and appreciated — “I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.”
Exactly. It’s okay to want money just to have money to pay for the things you like to have. You’re allowed to say that.
Why is that more honest? Seems like the only difference is that insults the for pay work. I mean, I don’t think Raimi’s Spider-Man movies are a hidden indie, but she said she’d do things for money, and that’s it.As for Taika Watititi, I think you overestimate what an indy filmmaker is worth, from small market New Zealand no less, compared to everything after Thor. Though maybe What We Do in Shadows is successful enough.
I’m not sure Celebrity Net Worth dot com’s methodology stands up to rigorous scrutiny.
Yep, this article referenced both Dunst and Waititi saying that they have kids/family to support is the reason to take on superhero movie projects. I don’t get it… is Kirsten’s mom living in an NYC penthouse apartment? Do Taika’s kids eat bars of gold for breakfast? I don’t understand the “can’t you see I’ve got mouths to feed?” rationale they’re using here. Unless they’re just being coy.
‘”Her net worth is reportedly $25-30 million. Think she will be ok.”’She’s also married to Jesse Plemons and between the two of them and their mortgage (with her living in Hollywood probably is A LOT) most likely have accrued some debt which they still need to payoff.
I’d watch a Drop Dead Gorgeous sequel.
I have no idea what that would look like… but, yes.
I guess Denise Richards’ demise would make a rematch impossible.
Get her and Michelle Williams in old age makeup, secretly taking down Trump.If anyone doesn’t know what I’m talking about, look it up. You won’t be disappointed.
I love that movie! “We are stupid teenage girls!”
D I C K
I’d do another Spiddermen movie too, Kristen!
::reads headline::Hey, me too!
Someone get James Gunn on the horn and tell him his new DC reboot needs a Power Girl.
Wait… um the photo at the top of the story and the photo you posted seem to have one big difference. Well… two big differences.
push up bras are pretty awesome.
She has children and may have been breast feeding at the time of the photo in the blue dress.
Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, and Zendaya in: Spider-Man(’s love interests): No Way Home. with guest appearance by whoever the love interest is in Venom (haven’t watched it) for the post-credits
ironically, Michelle Williams
“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. Everyone that has ever wanted to bone Spider Man in every universe – EVERYONE – is coming. And I can’t stop them.”
There is a time-honored tradition of actors being completely upfront
about taking a job—particularly a sub-par job—for the paycheck.
My favorite one of these was Michael Caine about Jaws 3: “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
Jaws 4, not 3.
“That’s why cinema’s (original) Mary Jane Watson says she’d like to work on a regular television show”.Well, she was. It was called ‘On Becoming A God in Central Florida’ and it was fantastic and then it got cancelled because we aren’t allowed to have nice things.
Indeed, we are not allowed to have nice things. Nice things give us hope and hope is the enemy.
I could see her as a snaggletoothed villain
To be fair, I also would do a superhero movie for the money.
To be fair, I’d watch the shit out of Spidey sequel set 20 years after the trilogy where they are married and have a daughter.
Kirsten Dunst anagrams to Dr Sunken Tits.
Whose mom would she play?