From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, the home edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm thrilled to have my guest today who has had a career that I think has made

her a magnet for directors. And we can just enumerate that by talking about the director she's

worked with. To go from Neil Jordan to Michelle Gondry, to Sophia Coppola, to Sam Ramey, to

Laura von Trier, to her most recent collaboration with Jane Campion for the Power of the Dog.

I'm, of course, talking to SAG, supporting actress nominee, Kirsten Dunst. Thank you so much for

doing this, Kirsten. Thanks for talking to me, Mitchell. I've always loved talking to you.

One of the things I wanted to ask you about since we're here, and this Jane Campion thing is new,

what do you look for when you sit down with directors?

I mean, what kind of sense do you want from them

when you're having your first conversation?

Most of it is their previous body of work to me,

which informs my decision.

And then with the more newer or up-and-coming directors I've worked with,

it's just a sense that I get, a sensibility,

yeah, that I feel like that, you know, their references or what they're trying to do

make sense and feels like they will be interesting filmmakers trying to do something different.

Again, for the career that you've had and be clearly a magnet for this kind of talent, I mean, having these kind of things to choose from, I just wonder if you think to yourself, well, what have I not done? Who have I not worked with? What sensibility have I not been in contact with yet?

Listen, one of my favorite directors is Paul Thomas Anderson, and he's, so he's kind of a dream director of mine.

I hope I get to work with him at some point in my life.

But I've always wanted to do a musical.

That's something that I haven't been a part of.

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