Kirsten Dunst Trips on 2024 Oscars Statue But Saves Herself by Pirouetting Like a Ballerina in White Gown

Mar. 15, 2025

Kirsten Dunst laughs off trip on 2024 Oscars red carpet with husband Jesse Plemons.Photo:Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Kirsten Dunstnarrowly avoided a fall on the 2024Oscarsred carpet.

While posing for photos in her elegant white square-neck Gucci gown and Fred Leighton jewelry, the actress, 41, encountered a slight blip — or rather, slip.

Kirsten Dunst trips on 2024 Oscars red carpet.Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty

Lexie Moreland/WWD via Getty

Her multitasking comes to a halt when, just as she holds out her arm to pose with her man, she trips and finds herself wrapped up in the arms of another man — the life-size Oscars statue that luckily catches her fall!

Dunst’s save could also be credited to her own quick reflexes as she steadies herself on the gold sculpture, just like a graceful ballerina.

The couple greets the near-fall with humor. TheFriday Night Lightsactor, dressed in a tux, smiles while his wife giggles and hides her face as she whispers something in his ear.

Throughout it all, they still manage to work the cameras like professionals.

This year, Plemons' filmKillers of the Flower Moonis up for 10 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Actress (Lily Gladstone) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro).

Liza Koshy tumbles in massive heels on 2024 Oscars red carpet.FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty

Sunday’s carpet seemed to be a hotspot forstumbling stars.

In the viral moment, Koshy completely tumbled in her red off-the-shoulder Marchesa gown, but kept on laughing through it all, even joking that a “manhole” was responsible for her wipeout.

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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons have glam date night at 2024 Oscars.Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

Dunst and Plemonsquietly tied the knotin July 2022 at the GoldenEye luxury resort near Ocho Rios, Jamaica after six years together and welcoming their two sons — Ennis, 5, and James, 2.

The two met on the set ofFargoand have worked on a few other projects since, including their upcoming movieCivil War.

“Because we fell in love on a set, we fell in love creatively first. I think we’ll always come back to that, in a very not-involving-our-real-life way," Dunst toldMarie Clairein a recently published interview. “And also, listen,we don’t talk to each other on set. I left him alone, he left me alone.”

source: people.com