The last time we talked to the lovely Kirsten Dunst was when she portrayed Edwina Dabney in “The Beguiled” two years ago. Now 37 and engaged to her “Fargo” co-star Jesse Plemons, 31, Kirsten looked happy and contented. A new mom, Kirsten is now the mother of a 15-month-old son Ennis Howard Plemons.

We interviewed her recently and she talked about love, motherhood and her new TV series, “On Becoming a God in Central Florida.” The dark comedy television series, created by Robert Funke and Matt Lutsky is about Krystal Gill, a minimum-wage-earning water park employee who schemes her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise, a multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme that ruined her family.

Below are excerpts of our conversation with Kirsten:

What attracted you to the role?

For me, it was the script and the role. I hadn’t read a woman like this. I knew that whatever this journey of a character would go on would be ruthless and so challenging, and I could just lay it all on the line. It was going to be a challenging but very freeing role for me.

In what way did you relate to your character?

I read the script before I was pregnant and had a child. So, it was a fit for me then just because she was such a great female character. There aren’t that many great roles like this. It’s just, she puts it all on the line and is fearless and will get whatever she wants. So, I just loved that. I just hadn’t read a role like that. And I love comedy and dark comedy, just the whole gamut of all of that. And then, after I had a kid, I was like, “Oh! This is even more fitting now, because I don’t have to ask the mother on set, ‘Oh, when you feed them, how would you do this or that?’” Now I knew all that stuff instinctually, so it was fine.

How has motherhood changed you?

Having that much joy in your life, no matter how you feel, personally, waking up and seeing that face is the best thing in the world. That sweet, smiling face just looking at you. Having so much pure love, and just watching him grow and change every day, is really the most special thing in the world. So, for me, I just feel like just being able to watch him grow up and make me laugh and all these things, I’m just so grateful that I get to experience that.

What surprised you about motherhood?

It’s just very tiring. I guess that it really does take a village, it really does. Like, friends come over, “I’m here’s the baby, bye.” Whenever you have a second to yourself, it’s just like, “Here you go. Here you go.” I never thought I’d be giving him away as much as I do. I’m like, “Have him? Yeah!” Yeah. So, we have friends come over to the house all the time, everyone likes to hang out at our house anyway. We’re one of those communal households. So, whenever I have a chance to have a time for myself, I do.

Have your sleeping patterns changed?

For a while, I had a really hard time sleeping, because I always had the monitor on my side. I moved it to Jesse’s side, now I sleep great. Because dads don’t have that inner, you know what I mean? So, I keep it on his side, and I sleep much better.

Do you have a motherly role model?

I don’t know. I’m just navigating what I think instinctually. And then I’ll ask friends and things, but there’s no one role model. I’ll just ask everybody for help or what they think.

Now that you are a parent, how has your relationship with Jesse changed?

I think, because we started out such good friends, the communication is very great. He’s like my best friend. So, it’s not like, I only feel like, that it’s made us more connected. You know, responsibilities, I feel like women often take, because our brains just work in a different way, I think that we take a lot of the anxiety, fear, and of what’s going to happen. I have so many awful thoughts that pass through my head, they couldn’t possibly happen. And I don’t think he has that. But it’s nice to have that balance too, because then he’s like, “Relax, it’s fine.” You know what I mean? So, it’s good to have a balance.

What have you learned from past relationships?

I just found my best friend. I think I got very lucky. And I knew he was a soulmate of mine; I didn’t know what capacity that would present itself.

Your character is able to read through B.S. Since you grew up in the industry, where did your ability to know who you are come from?

I think it’s a moment-by-moment thing, sometimes. I don’t know. Sometimes you can wake up and like, “Uh, I’m not in the mood.” And then you’re like, you just have to be present and see what other people give you. And you can either have an openness, which I think I do, or you can just stay in a rut, and in your own world. But I like people. So, always the days where I feel like it’s going to be not the greatest, turn out to be good, because I didn’t expect something.

You have a new show and a new family so it looks like a wonderful time in your life. Can you talk a little bit more about it?

I’m very emotional about it, because I had a baby and then I had this baby (the show). So it’s like watching these things develop and grow. And just, if someone likes it or whatever. I just have so much pride, so I’m just going to allow myself to be really proud and happy.

What attributes do you have for making a good motivator?

I grew up in this business for a long time, and part of being an actor is keeping a childlike sense of things. But also, I think that you’re getting savvy and protecting yourself in this industry, and not letting it take a hold of you in any negative way is an important thing. Because it can be very hard, especially if you’re a true artist. It can be very disappointing.

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Kirsten is on the cover of the October 2017 issue of C California Style magazine. The magazine features a stunning photoshoot of Kirsten by photographer Kurt Iswarienko & a very interesting interview with Kirsten & “Woodshock” directors Kate & Laura Mulleavy.

You can read the interview here & I’ve added the photoshoot to the gallery.

Credit & thanks to Kurt Iswarienko & C magazine for use of the pics.

Earlier today Kirsten, Kate Mulleavy & Laura Mulleavy took part in an AOL BUILD interview to discuss “Woodshock”. Here’s the video.

The following article appears in the September 2017 issue of Nylon magazine.

“In a dark Mexican restaurant in the Valley…” is how Kirsten Dunst predicts I will start this profile of her. So here we are, in a dark Mexican restaurant in the Valley, eating chips and salsa under a chandelier shaped liike a cactus. It’s one of her regular haunts, the kind of homey, low-lit, AC-heavy place that’s perfect to escape into on a white-hot, 90-degree Los Angeles day like today.

It’s fitting to flit between temperature extremes while speaking with the actress, who has made a career out of shifting seamlessly between cult indie flicks and superhero blockbusters. And like most of Dunst’s 35 years, this has been a busy one, from appearing in Cannes standout The Beguiled to this month’s Woodshock—the first feature film from Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy—in which she stars. Dunst recently accompanied the Mulleavys to Rodarte’s first Paris Fashion Week showing. “Their shows always make me cry because they’re two of my best friends. It’s like watching your baby walk. I’m like, ‘Aw, my friends, look what they did!’” she says in a funny, throaty, emotional voice. “And I’m always crying. I’m just that way. I cry a lot and I love my friends and I’m so proud of what they do.”

Dunst first met Kate and Laura over a decade ago, when the Mulleavy sisters had just started Rodarte. “I was the first actress to wear their clothes, and so eventually they sent me a little box of weird trinkets,” she says. “There was, like, a plastic fairy village in there and a little disposable camera.” She sent a thank-you note, and met them soon after at a Christmas party, where they became fast friends.

To prepare for Woodshock, a dreamy, spooky psychological horror film set in Northern California’s Humboldt County, the Mulleavys asked Dunst to rewatch Suspiria and Taxi Driver, as well as a National Geographic documentary about the redwoods and a Rolling Stones concert film (“not the one with the Hells Angels,” Dunst says, referring to Gimme Shelter).

I speak to Kate and Laura about their first on-screen Dunst sighting as they drive back to Pasadena from the airport. It was the actress’s breakout role as an 11-year-old in Interview With the Vampire, a film whose style feels deeply in tune with Rodarte’s California gothic aesthetic: cobwebs, ghost towns, and decaying Victorian mansions—the dark fog lurking beneath the sunshine. They talk in a sisterly overlap, often finishing each other’s thoughts. “It makes me really nostalgic for a time when the big blockbuster would be Interview With the Vampire,” Laura recalls. “I remember thinking, ’Who is this person who can be the best performer out of all these incredible actors?” Dunst’s otherworldly maturity was a panacea to child-star affectedness. Here was a young actress so gifted she could believably play an ageless adult trapped in a child’s body, holding her own against box office ruler Tom Cruise and hot rising star Brad Pitt.

All of Dunst’s films are rewatchable, and while she has expertly channeled darkness and depression in movies like Melancholia and The Virgin Suicides, the Mulleavys point out that she is also a gifted comedian. “I mean, Bring It On is an incredible movie,” Kate says, causing Laura to chime in: “What about Drop Dead Gorgeous?”

Dunst has seemingly unlimited range, recently garnering accolades for her role on FX’s Fargo, where she met her now fiancé, Jesse Plemons. “She’s such a natural actress,” says Kate. “She becomes the world of the film and the characters to the point where it’s almost effortless.”

Dunst’s transition from child star to adult actress has been equally graceful. She felt maternal on the set of The Beguiled toward her friend Elle Fanning, because it was Fanning’s first time being on a set without her parents. When they were at Cannes with the film, Dunst advised the young actress not to take anything for granted. “You have to enjoy these things, they’re special,” she told her, adding that “everyone’s career ebbs and flows, so appreciate the good times.” Dunst cites Shirley MacLaine (calling her “the fucking best”) and Gena Rowlands, whose naturalness onscreen feels akin to her own, as her favorite actresses.

Sofia Coppola, who has directed Dunst in three films, praises her openness: “She’s not scared like some actors can be—she’ll try anything.” While shooting The Beguiled, Coppola says, “It was really fun to see Kirsten go in and out of character—we’d be at lunch with her in her costume with sunglasses on, being her funny self, and then we’d get back to shooting and she’d transform into repressed Edwina, like her and Elle would be doing ‘Girls Gone Wild 1860s’ with red Solo cups, and then back into a serious scene.”

The Mulleavys wanted Woodshock to be “subjective and experiential”—the viewer sees the film through Dunst’s character Theresa’s eyes—and to serve as a love letter to the California landscape they grew up in. The film’s title derives from a Northern California colloquialism for the feeling of disorientation that comes from getting lost in the woods. And in the film, Theresa falls into paranoia from an unnamed drug and ultimately finds herself among giant trees. For the scene where Theresa first encounters the redwoods, the Mulleavys wanted to capture Dunst’s actual reaction to the mystical old-growth forest. “We blindfolded Kirsten and took her to one of the largest trees in the area,” says Kate. What wound up in the film was “just pure connectivity between her and this object, this living being, and it was pretty powerful.”

It’s also an excellent example of Dunst’s uncanny ability to play nuance, whether she’s landing a joke or hinting at unseen private depths, accomplishing more with a glance than most actors can with a monologue. “She has such a sensitivity to what is around her,” Kate says. She’s able to tap into things that are very difficult to tap into, that are so nuanced emotionally, and then bring those to life—it’s such a rare talent.” Laura adds: “It must be a very difficult burden to be that sensitive and able to reach those deep emotions that some people feel so happy to block off from accessing at all.” Dunst smiles when I repeat this to her. “I’m not a tortured soul in general,” she says. “I try to look at the positives of things.” But she did think that playing a deeply depressed bride whose wedding day coincided with a planet hitting Earth in Melancholia was great fun: “I would drive to work and be like, ‘I’m so lucky! I’m in a Lars Von Trier film!’”

While Dunst is originally from New Jersey, she is in many ways a consummate California girl—chill, funny, and slyly intelligent. She has a longtime professional’s lack of illusion about the entertainment industry, but there is nothing cynical or jaded about her. The Los Angeles suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, which she calls home, are hot, flat, and mostly humbler than their counterparts over the hill. The best parts are unpretentious and slightly out of time, much like Dunst. Calabasas, the far west end, is now home to Drake, the Kardashians, and Justin Bieber, who built custom luxury mansions on the giant tracts there.

Dunst moved to L.A. after Interview With the Vampire. “I started sixth grade in the Valley. We lived in Hollywood and I’d audition. And then we went to the Oakwood apartments [a complex populated by many young Hollywood hopefuls, and home to the Child Actor Program] like everyone else.” Now she lives in the Toluca Lake neighborhood, which is prized for its cozy small-town feel and close proximity to studios. “I don’t leave the Valley,” Dunst says. “To me, West Hollywood is like another state.”

We talk about the area’s shadow entertainment economy, pornography. “It’s not the porn capital anymore,” she says. “But my best friend lived in Studio City, and I remember we’d come home from school and there’d be these girls with rolly suitcases going into the house across the street from her. And we discovered later it was a big porn house.”

She describes a recent night out, where she and Plemons hit the Foxfire Room, a wood-paneled dive on Magnolia Boulevard that features heavily in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. When asked what directors she’d most like to work with, she names Anderson first, and mentions that he was the reason she was cast in Melancholia: “He recommended me to Lars,” she says.

Plemons, best known for roles on Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad, is a fellow former child actor—he played young Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses—and also lived in the Oakwood before settling in the Valley. “Before we got together, he lived so close to me,” Dunst says. “We went to the same grocery stores, but we’d never see each other.” Originally from Texas, Plemons is bringing Dunst to his home state the following weekend, and they plan to float on a river in inner tubes.

Another director with whom Dunst would love to work is Jane Campion. “I love Top of the Lake,” she says, adding that she also makes a point to seek out new talent, keeping her eye on Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award winners. “The rule is you could only have spent $500,000. So that means you’ve done everything. You must be good if you made a good movie [within those restrictions].”

As a plate of sizzling fajitas is brought to the table next to us I lean in closer to hear Dunst describe some of the pitfalls of the movie business—all the projects that don’t get made, how hard it is to get out even a small indie. Although Dunst has been working for decades now, she says good roles for women remain scarce, and are divvied up between whomever is hot and bankable at the moment. “You’re almost better off being older,” she says, since Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with actresses in their mid-30s, who are past the point of “the young girl who’s just, like, beautiful and things are happening to her.” Dunst cares more about being in good projects than starring in not-good ones. “A lot of the choices I make are director-driven,” she says. “I’d rather do a tiny little whatever in a good film.”

She also would like to do more television, and will soon be delving into dark comedy again, in a series for AMC directed by The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos, called On Becoming a God in Central Florida. In her downtime, she mostly likes to relax at home and watch movies and TV. Her favorite shows are Baskets—the FX anti-sitcom starring Zach Galifianakis as a clown—and The Great British Baking Show, which she says is “like wearing a blankie. It’s a comfy show.” She shares an anecdote about how she recently watched Tito, her cat, “gulp down a mouse, literally, like, chug it,” which reminds her that she needs to stop by the pet store on her way home to pick up food for him. As we get up to leave the restaurant, Dunst warns me that it’s going to be deadly bright outside, and she is correct—it’s blindingly so. We exit the dark, cool restaurant and part ways, my lunch companion heading back into the Valley’s sunlight-faded horizon.

Molly Lambert, Nylon.com

Three great friends — the actress Kirsten Dunst and Laura and Kate Mulleavy, the fashion-designing wonder siblings behind the craft-meets-high-fashion line Rodarte — are sitting in a booth at Smoke House, an old-school Hollywood place with red leather booths and headshots on the wall just across from the Warner Bros. lot in the valley. They are discussing Woodshock, a dreamy, trippy feature film — a meditation on grief, destruction, and psychedelic drugs — that will be released September 22. The movie was written and directed by the Mulleavys; Dunst served as an executive producer and the film’s star.

“We went on a trip to Florence together in about 2011,” Laura says. The sisters had already drafted a short version of a script, “and we drank so much limoncello and we started talking about it.”

“We’re all so emotionally interconnected,” Kate explains.

“I was the first actress to wear their clothes,” says Dunst. “It was while I was doing press for Spider-Man, and it was this black dress with chains that it turns out were sewn by their mother, and they sent me a box of trinkets — we were all just so excited.”

“Artistically, I think you just meet someone you’re supposed to work with,” Kate says. Both sisters are big talkers: articulate in describing their intentions and their art. Dunst is a bit more reserved. “Laura and I are a very internal network, so for me, writing a script, we didn’t talk to anyone about it,” says Kate. “So for us to sit down with Kirsten and say, ‘Let’s get through a really early state of something,’ that was a big deal.”

For the Mulleavys, film was an obvious extension of their art. “I kind of learned over the years that expression through clothing is just one way of telling a story,” says Laura, “and putting it into a film context is a narrative choice that you get to make. We were trained to study words and study imagery and to think about meanings that you can imbue in a story.” The idea was to make a film about Northern California, where the sisters grew up wandering in a redwood forest just outside Santa Cruz. The film would be about destruction — they’d spent their childhood fixated on the disappearing landscape, as well as the fate of the endangered California condor — and they imagined something set in the 19th century, where trees the size of skyscrapers were being felled every day and the vibrations were felt for miles.

But then there was the limoncello and a third person in what is typically for the sisters a two-person conversation. The notion of a film started to become real.

“At one point we said, ‘We’re going to make this a full film now, and it doesn’t need to be set in the 1800s,’ ” says Kate.

“I think that was my idea,” says Dunst. “I was like, ‘This doesn’t need to be period!’ ” (Later, the sisters say that they had been thinking along the same lines already.)

“And then one day Laura and I were in the car,” says Kate, “and we just turned to each other and said, ‘Theresa works in a pot shop.’ ”

Theresa is the protagonist of Woodshock. She is a lonely woman — her mother dies in an early scene — struggling with her grief in a Humboldt County redwood home. She walks in the forest for solace, but the trees keep coming down — her boyfriend works as a logger. Theresa’s job as a clerk in the marijuana dispensary, which is seedy and neon-lit (in order to look, Laura says, a little bit like outer space), is a lot more complicated and treacherous than her sleepy eyes initially suggest. The action centers on the particularly potent strains of pot that have replaced lumber as Humboldt County’s most famous cash crop.

The movie won’t be surprising visually or vibe-wise for anyone who has observed the sisters’ fashion career: They’ve always been inspired by Northern California, and their work has always felt more rooted in a specific ethos than in a specific time. The ethos is New Age–y and Californian; a little bit Ladies of the Canyon and a little bit Stevie Nicks. It’s a West Coast fantasy for the rest of the world, away from the glitz of Hollywood but nevertheless connected. It is crafty and dreamy and impressionistic. The sisters became famous for dresses that would have worked well on wood nymphs, and the movie looks quite a lot of the time like a watercolor painting of the enchanted forest in a fairy tale.

“What is humanity capable of?” Kate asks. “That’s really the question. Beautiful things and destructive things.”

“We were really interested in understanding the psychology of destruction,” Laura says, “and saying, okay, if this is something that happens, and you’re living in a destructive time period and a destructive environment supported by extreme beauty, it’s about being either a very passive or a very active agent in that destruction. It’s about the psychology of violence.”

Rodarte’s fashion shows have been unusual in form (no straightforward runways, neon-light installations, models standing in unusual formations), and the Mulleavys’ filmmaking style is purposefully disorienting. They use mirror reflections and other, subtle displacements to keep its lush, extreme beauty from becoming some sort of bucolic, soothing travelogue. It was going to take a specific kind of actress to thrive in that setting, and Theresa was always only ever going to be played by Kirsten Dunst, who knows a thing or two about disorientation: When she made Drop Dead Gorgeous, Allison Janney told her that sometimes you’ve just got to spin around a bunch so that you’re super-dizzy when “action” is called. Dunst did that in this film. “Thinking about Kirsten,” Kate says, “well, there’s no one else that can do this. The thing I say about her, and I literally say this sentence all the time, is that she’s brilliant in Bring It On, and she’s brilliant in Melancholia, and I’m sorry, but let’s just stop and think about that for a second. People love it when you’re one thing. As a human being, when you defy being one thing, you will always have a trickier path.”

Dunst gives a little self-conscious chuckle and looks up through half-closed eyes. “Look,” she says, “I just want my picture on the Smoke House wall.”

In a lot of ways, the Mulleavys and Dunst are a natural creative match, occupying a similar mainstream-adjacent category. They are embraced by popular culture — by Vogue, by the Spider-Man franchise — but they have remained emphatically independent within it.

When Rodarte launched 11 years ago, it was almost immediately supported by the fashion Establishment. Their very first collection — ten dresses — was on the cover of WWD. What the sisters were doing was unusual: handmade, one-off things. And the story people told about them was enticing, too: these two sisters holed up in a cottage in the woods (they live in Pasadena, but whatever) and sewing long into the night, crocheting wild, witchy sweaters and cracked-out princess dresses that looked unlike anything else on the red carpet. They were both recent graduates of UC Berkeley, and they enjoyed steeping themselves in — and threading their interviews with — intense, thoughtful examinations of popular culture, literature, and art. After school, they didn’t move to New York or Milan or Paris; they stayed living with their parents for a while (they moved out eventually but still live together). When they describe their adolescence, it’s all about that forest, plus knowing who the best clerks were at their local Blockbuster. (Horror is one of their favorite genres.)

The rise of Rodarte corresponded with the rise of fast fashion, with the moment when the perfect cashmere crewneck became available at Uniqlo. What Rodarte offered was the opposite. There were never any basics apparent or available; Rodarte was about wearing original, one-of-a-kind things, the type of things that might look bananas to the uninitiated but spoke volumes in fashion language. They obsessed over handwork, over fantasy. Everything always felt like it had somehow crossed the membrane from a sort of shared sisterly dreamscape into reality. They’ve never sought straight-up direct success by translating their offbeat fame into expensive handbags or lipstick, offering a piece of the quirky dream at an affordable price (their father, a career botanist, is their CFO). The closest they’ve come is a line of less-expensive sweats marked RADARTE — clothes for crafting — and a one-season collaboration with Target. And they’ve always maintained low-key personas: They wear jeans, flat shoes, and plain blouses almost exclusively.

But the Mulleavys also have a knack for cultivating a certain type of celebrity: Dunst, for example, and Natalie Portman became both fans and friends, as did many key editors at Vogue. (When they did that line for Target, they launched it with a video starring Tavi Gevinson.) A quirky, slow-paced feature film was for them a far more obvious extension than, say, an affordable line of party frocks.

Dunst, in many ways, is the perfect companion for the sisters. She began working when she was 3 years old and became famous at 12, when she got a Golden Globe nomination for playing a bloodthirsty preteen who kisses Brad Pitt in Interview With the Vampire. There’s a certain magic to Dunst: She is tallish, blonde, and beautiful, but hers has never been a purely straightforward kind of beauty. She’s really good at playing crazy (Crazy/Beautiful) and suicidal (The Virgin Suicides), but she’s also great at being silly (Dick, Bring It On). There’s always been something bubbly about her, but the bubbles can be dark. She’s been open about her treatment for depression — she sought help in 2008 — acknowledging that being a Hollywood actress involves pressures that are “totally ridiculous.” She’s walked a fascinating line between mainstream and independent — her second-most famous onscreen kiss was delivered to an upside-down Tobey Maguire in the rain during her stint as a blockbuster love interest, but then she made Melancholia with Lars von Trier. She’s been the star of three Sofia Coppola movies. She’s undoubtedly an A-list celebrity, but she’s maintained a sheen of credibility, or a sense of an authentic attachment in her work — however you want to think of it — and she’s become something of a Hollywood cult hero as a result. The tundra faced by many Hollywood women when they reach her age — which is 35 — doesn’t seem to be slowing her down. In addition to Woodshock, in the last few years she shot Fargo and The Beguiled. Much like the Mulleavys, her position in the West Coast alterna-world is an asset, allowing her to create her own path through the world of shrinking options and plastic surgery, to take some time to make this tiny, esoteric film about sadness and psychedelia.

Dunst has always been a very physical actress — in his 2001 New Yorker review of Crazy/Beautiful, the critic David Denby wrote that “the movie belongs to 19-year-old Kirsten Dunst, who wears stressed jeans and little tops that terminate five inches above her navel. I doubt that any performer has got so much out of an exposed belly since Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah. Swiveling, jackknifing, raising her arms, and then crumpling over, Dunst has as much intensity as a Martha Graham dancer. When her face falls in alcoholic dismay, she can look like a drowned cat.” And it’s that flexibility, that notion that her emotions are just so close to the surface that they can’t help but bubble up, that makes her so watchable. Dunst has never been afraid to be vulnerable.

“People tend to put people in boxes,” she says, “and that’s always been very uncomfortable for me. I don’t think I have a box, and I feel like that’s confusing people. When I was in my 20s, I did Spider-Man, and that afforded me the luxury of doing what I wanted, doing indies and things like that. I think you have to figure out what artists you want to collaborate with, and that’s what’s exciting to me. I say no all the time, and it’s hard. Sometimes it’s like, Should I be doing this? But I think what you pick taste-wise ends up being the community that responds to you and will continue working with you, so …”

“It’s a big conundrum,” says Kate, nodding sympathetically at her friend. She can relate. “Obviously, we have not become the kind of designers who are doing it for the glamorous lifestyle or to sell a thousand handbags. We sell a few dresses, and that’s the truth. We’re creative. Some people like us for that, and some people don’t.”

“We have a rule with ourselves, all of us,” says Laura. “We have this fake bookshelf that we’re all building together over time, with things that we contribute. We really want everything that goes on it to be valuable, to really believe in the things that go on. Kirsten won’t do things she doesn’t think are good.”

One of the things the women did together to prepare for the movie was to spend some time with Dolly, a California condor that lives in the Los Angeles zoo. The Mulleavys had always been interested in their plight (“It’s what we gave our quarters for in the cafeteria at school,” Laura explains), and they wanted Dunst to see what they were talking about. Dunst hugged the mammoth redwoods, of course, standing beneath them and feeling like a tiny, insignificant piece of sand. But there was also this bird. So much of the world is disappearing, and here was something beautiful that they could see. Dunst scrolls through her phone looking for a photo she snapped of Dolly in profile. Here it is: She looks like Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. “She’s like 1,000 grandmothers all looking at you at the same time,” Laura says. “She’s so wise.”

They are all nodding vigorously in agreement, about Dolly, about redwoods, about Hollywood, about fame, about the quirky sorority the three have found together.

“For whatever reason,” Dunst says, “we just make things together.”

“To work with someone who understands your language so well that you don’t even have to speak, that’s the best thing you could ever ask for,” says Kate.

“The thing about making this film is that it’s just like making our family bigger,” says Laura. “She’s family now.”

Amy Larocca, The Cut.

Earlier today Kirsten & Sofia Coppola visited the AOL Build Studios in New York where they took part in a discussion about “The Beguiled”. Here’s the video.

Kirsten is on the cover of the Summer 2017 issue of Dazed magazine, which goes on sale on June 22nd. The magazine features an in depth interview with Kirsten & her Beguiled co-star Elle Fanning, who is featured on an alternative cover, & a stunning photoshoot of Kirsten by photographer Casper Sejersen. Dazeddigital.com have published the full interview online in two parts & you can read it here & here.

I’ve added to the gallery the magazine cover & pics from the Casper Sejersen photoshoot.

Last night the New York Times hosted a special screening of “The Beguiled”. After the screening Kirsten & Sofia Coppola took part in a 30 minute conversation about the film. Here’s the video (the conversation starts at 3 minutes 20 seconds).

The June 2017 Hong Kong edition of “Prestige” magazine features an interview with Kirsten & two nice pics from her visit to Beijing. I’ve added scans from the magazine to the gallery. Prestigeonline.com has published segments from the interview that were not included in the magazine. Both parts of the interview are well worth a read.

I’ve also added to the gallery some pics of Kirsten in Beijing on April 9th during her promotional trip for Chaumet Jewellery.

Earlier today at the Cannes Film Festival the photocall & press conference for “The Beguiled” were held. Director Sofia Coppola attended with Kirsten & her co-stars Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice & Addison Riecke.

Here are the official videos of the photocall & press conference plus a video of an interview with Sofia & most of the cast.