Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 426th episode of Awards Shatter, The Hollywood

Reporter's Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is an outstanding

actress who is just 39 but has been doing great work for some 30 years already.

She became a child star thanks to a remarkable performance, opposite Tom Cruise and Brad

in Neil Jordan's 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, garnering her first Golden Globe

nomination at the age of just 12. During her teens, she began leading a double life, becoming

a teen idol through films like 2000s Bring It On and The Original Spider-Man Trilogy,

which rolled out in 2002, 2004, and 2007, while also earning critical acclaim for the first two

of her three collaborations with Sophia Coppola, 1999's The Virgin Suicides, and 2006's Marie

Antoinette. After a bit of a hiatus from the screen, she returned as a full-fledged adult on

screen's Big Ant Small, winning the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Prize for Lars

Montreyr's Melancholia in 2011, and Golden Globe nominations for her work as the leads of two TV

series, FX's Fargo in 2015, and Showtime's Unbecoming a God in Central Florida in 2019,

but never has her work been better received than it was in 2021. When she played Rose, a woman

in the Old West, who is tormented by her troubled brother-in-law, in Jane Campions, The Power of the

Dog, for which she has garnered Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Choice

Award nominations with an Oscar nomination likely to follow. Kirsten Dunst. Over the course of our

conversation, Dunst and I discuss the pros and cons of Child Startham, and why she credits Sophia

Coppola with helping her to successfully transition into grown-up parts, why she has always

resisted efforts to turn her into a more conventional movie star from refusing to have her teeth fixed

to shunning opportunities to play romantic leads outside of the Spider-Man franchise,

why she is particularly proud to be associated with Campion and The Power of the Dog,

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