Kirsten Dunst Regrets 'Never' Saying Anything When She Was Called 'Girly-Girl' onSpider-ManSet

Mar. 15, 2025

Kirsten Dunst.Photo:Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty

Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty

Kirsten Dunstis reflecting on not standing up for herself more on the set ofSpider-Man.

In an interview withMarie Claire, Dunst said she no longer feels “nervous” on movies — “I feel at home sharing everything on set now” — but recalled not speaking up for herself on theSpider-Manset.

“It was a joke, but onSpider-Man, they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie. ‘We need girly-girl.’ But I never said anything. … Like, don’t call me that!”

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Dunst said when she was younger, she once told her manager at the time, “I feel like I get hired because I’m someone that they might want to sleep with.”

“I think that’s probably why I migrated to so many female directors at a younger age, because I didn’t want to feel that way” said Dunst.

Dunst, who stars in thenew political thrillerCivil War, toldMarie Claireshe opted not to “capitalize off theSpider-Manthing” to become a “movie-star-movie-star.”

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“That’s great for some people. It’s not the artist that I want to be,” she said, adding of her selective process for roles, “It was just growing up, and migrating to things that spoke to me. I always just navigated with my heart.”

Dunst did say she would do another big-budget superhero project: “Yes, because you get paid a lot of money and Ihave two children and I support my mother.”

Civil Waris in theaters April 26.

source: people.com