Kirsten Dunst said she’s open to appearing in another superhero movie for a very practical reason.
The “Spider-Man” actress made the revelation during a new interview with Marie Claire and discussed some of her thoughts about how the industry has changed.
“It was a joke, but on Spider-Man, they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie. ‘We need girly-girl’” she mimicked. “But I never said anything … like, don’t call me that.”
“You didn’t say anything. You just took it,” Dunst said of being on set in the pre-MeToo era. Marvel’s “Spider-Man” starring Tobey Maguire and featuring Dunst as Mary Jane premiered in 2002.
Despite her negative experience, the 41-year-old actress said she’d be open to another superhero movie “because you get paid a lot of money, and I have two children, and I support my mother.”
The actress is currently promoting her new project, the action drama “Civil War” produced by A24.
“There’s definitely less good roles for women my age,” the actress said, mentioning how “every role I was being offered was the sad mom” after being nominated for her first Oscar for “The Power of the Dog” in 2022.
“That’s why I did ‘Civil War.’ When I read the script, I thought, ‘I’ve never done anything like this,’” Dunst added.
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At another point in the interview, the actress said in her 20s she was “kind of over-acting, to be honest, because I felt like it was for other people, not for myself.” She said engaging with an acting coach changed her outlook.
Dunst’s comments about being willing to consider superhero movies come as the genre suffered several recent high-profile box office flops, including “Madame Web” starring Dakota Johnson, “The Marvels,” “Aquaman 2,” and “The Flash.”
In response, some studios, including Disney, have rescheduled some of their upcoming projects. While some of the bad numbers are being blamed on residual effects of the pandemic and the Hollywood strikes last year, many industry insiders have dubbed the phenomenon “superhero fatigue” as audiences become sick of seeing the same type of content over and over.
Several “Spider-Man” spin-offs are currently in development, with the next releases being “Kraven the Hunter” in August and “Venom 3” in November.