Kirsten Dunst on Her Walk of Fame Honor, Giving Characters Secrets and ‘Becoming a God’
Kirsten Dunst had a secret.
When shooting 2016’s “Hidden Figures,” she was struggling with how to portray Vivian Mitchell, a supervisor to Octavia Spencer’s Dorothy Vaughan that barely hides her hostility and contempt for the mathematician.“You know what my secret was?” Dunst says with a laugh.
“I pretended that my character was in love with Octavia Spencer, but couldn’t do anything about it.
I couldn’t rationalize it any other way.
So all my anger and pent-up frustration was I was just so in love with Octavia.”Dunst has been finding her way deep into characters since she was a child, making her film debut at age 7 in Woody Allen’s “Oedipus Wrecks” segment of 1989’s “New York Stories” before achieving stardom at 12 opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in 1994’s “Interview with the Vampire.” She’s proven she can play everything from a sunny cheerleader in
