Kirsten Dunst - A Celebrity Profile (Or why Kirsten Dunst must win an Oscar!)
June 3rd 2007 22:54
SIZZZLE!!!!!!
Old news for sure, but Kirsten Dunst is smoking hot!
Despite the fact that she had a great year in 2004, with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind earning her no end of acting cred and Spiderman 2 earning her no end of cash, she's been down lately.
This bundle of talent has been involved in over 50 TV and movie productions since the tender age of seven, and has, at age 25, a resume some actresses three times her age would envy.
She only short by an Oscar of the title of Hollywood royalty, but hey she's on her way.
Three clunkers in a row, starting with gooey feel good movie Wimbledon, followed by badly written Orlando-Bloom-can't-act vehicle Elizabethtown and then the brilliant but badly received Marie Antoinette, have failed to dim her spotlight.
One gets the distinct impression in fact that had Anotinette gone down differently with critics and audiences to begin with instead of afterwards (art is never truly appreciated until after it's dead!) she would have scored a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
The absence of said nomination and the fiasco surrounding the Sofia Coppola directed biopic has done nothing to douse Dunst's Hollywood allure.
Spiderman 3 has followed in 2007 and a box-office record was set, even if the film did disappoint.
She has clawed her way up from the dubious title of childhood star, through cameo's and supporting roles, past the compulsory Touched by an Angel TV appearance, through tasteless teenage action-thrillers and into legitimate artwork. All the while she has tempered her obvious tendency towards more artistic films with gigantic blockbusters.
She has single-handedly achieved the nigh-on-impossible and become a legitimate box-office star AND a serious actress.
Cudo's to you Kirsten.
Kirsten in her coulda shoulda woulda won an Oscar role Marie Antoinette
The result is that while we have seen Kirsten grow up on screen we have seldom heard of her in the tabloids. She has by her own admissions smoked marijuana and does occassionally hit the town in LA for a night of party hard and excess. Still she has always managed to avoid the party-girl image that has since been attached to other young actresses of her ilk - you know who I mean.
Her future projects are slim pickings at present. She is all set to appear in the screen adaptation of Toby Young's best-selling memoir: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. A comedy story it concerns Toby Young's failed five year stint as an editor of US magazine Vanity Fair.
After that Dunst is slated to appear in two roles that are sheer Oscar bait, drama to the max and right up her alley. In Sweet Relief Dunst will play Marla Ruzicka, a relief worker who advocated for the proper care of victims of the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years. It's a right-to-lifer movie, yes, and falls into the category of eight million other movies being made these days (see also Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart) but hopes are still high that Dunst can make it something special.
Better yet is a project presently in-development in Hollywood, a biopic of the 80's band Blondie in which Kirsten looks set to play Debbie Harry. Dunst has sung in several of her movie's now - a musical was just coming her way. This one sounds like an oddysey in itself and will most likely have a 2009 release just in time for the Oscar nominations.
Whether she is your cup of tea or not, Kisten Dunst is an established actress with a huge box-office draw and minimum scandal. With a career in films expanding in all directions and a talent that continues to grow with each film, there is little to no chance that we will be seeing anything less of her anytime soon.
She is one of the few reasons to say hooray for Hollywood and I look forward to the day she finally gets her statue.
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Comment by Dianna G
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Was Kirsten the kid in Jumanji? Because me and a friend were forced to watch it for drama and ended up arguing about that.
Comment by DavidN