In praise of KirstenDunst, the most underrated actor of her generation:
"Because I know things." So speaks Justine, the depressive apocalyptic prophet at the center of Lars Von Trier's film Melancholia. There were many reasons to believe Justine really did"know things" , but none more compelling than that Justine was played by Kirsten Dunst, and it's hard not to believe that Kirsten Dunst is someone who knows things.
The long-established, though still tiresomely lazy journalistic trope of reducing an actress to the parts of her sum, has often been used in profiles of Dunst, and is only worth mentioning here because of how ineffective it is as a means of describing her.
Actresses who have careers as long as Dunst's usually go on one of two paths, toward mega fame and blockbuster franchise movies or toward indie stardom. Dunst is notable for having dabbled in both those paths, but ultimately choosing to be agnostic when it comes to determining what her own inimitable path would be. She has not limited herself only to indie films, acting in big-budget movies like Hidden Figures, and she has also worked in TV, on the second season of ultra-dark FX drama Fargo.
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