Kirsten Dunst is starring as Lee in Alex Garland's brand new hard-hitting drama, Civil War. She reflects on the stress involved in filming and admits her kids love Spider-Man but don't care that she's in it! Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It leaves you with a lot of different feelings.
00:02 I like it in the summertime.
00:04 I'll probably just be like, "That's mom, who cares?"
00:06 First question is, are you okay?
00:07 'Cause this was a lot.
00:08 Am I okay?
00:09 Um, yeah.
00:10 I mean, I knew what I was getting into.
00:13 Um, but Alex Garland is such a unique voice in our industry.
00:19 And, you know, he makes so few films,
00:22 so to be a part of one of his was, like,
00:25 it really was something that I wanted to be a part of.
00:28 I think if I found out I was working with Alex,
00:30 I'd get all my books and be like,
00:31 "Right, Sharpie, here we go."
00:33 Yeah, yeah, it's true.
00:34 I know exactly what you mean.
00:36 He was very generous, though,
00:38 and we had two weeks of rehearsal, which is very rare.
00:41 And, um, yeah, we watched documentaries and films
00:45 and went through the script, and yeah,
00:47 we really were a car, as we called it at the end of the day.
00:53 When you watched it back, were you shocked by how powerful it was?
00:55 I know you were in there in the moment,
00:57 but it was just unbelievable.
00:59 Yeah, I honestly, me and my husband saw the film
01:03 for the first time, Just Us, in a theatre,
01:04 and we both didn't really know what to say.
01:07 It really, it is such a powerful movie,
01:11 and I never felt like that before leaving a theatre,
01:14 um, which says a lot.
01:16 And people ask me, like, "How is it?" and everything.
01:18 I was like, "You just have to go see it."
01:20 It really, um, it leaves you with a lot of different feelings
01:26 depending on, you know, how you view the world.
01:30 You've done a lot of projects.
01:31 I mean, you started out so young.
01:33 Did you think you'd get to this point
01:34 where you're playing a war photographer?
01:36 It must have really taken its toll on you, perhaps, on set.
01:39 You've done so many different roles, and now you're here.
01:42 Was that the dream?
01:43 I guess I don't really think of it that way.
01:45 I'm so director-driven.
01:47 So for me, I would have done any type of film with Alex
01:51 because he's such an incredible filmmaker.
01:54 Um, but I had never played anything like this before,
01:58 and it felt like great timing.
02:00 I had just had a son, and I really, you know,
02:04 he is a good person to release things into,
02:07 and I felt, um, yeah, I had never played a role like this.
02:11 So that was exciting for me, too.
02:14 Are you planning on sitting your son down
02:16 and showing him the back catalogue at some point?
02:18 Oh, my God, if they care enough.
02:21 They'll probably just be like, "That's Mom. Who cares?"
02:23 They've watched Spider-Man, and they don't care.
02:25 They're more into Spider-Man than me.
02:28 That's pretty cool that their mum's in it, though. Come on, now.
02:30 I know, but they don't care, I'm telling you.
02:32 They don't care at all.
02:34 Were you stressed on set? Was it a stressful situation?
02:37 It wasn't stressful on set. It was more, um...
02:42 The last two weeks were very intense
02:45 because of the way we used real rounds
02:49 instead of half rounds in terms of the gunfire,
02:53 and the explosions, and because we shot in order,
02:56 those two weeks were very intense.
02:58 Um, but again, it felt like Alex wanted things to feel
03:03 as real as possible.
03:04 I saw a stat that some Americans, there's a poll,
03:08 that 40% of Americans think this could be likely
03:10 they're going to civil war in the next 10 years.
03:12 I mean, that's just frightening, isn't it?
03:16 Well, I mean, there's discourse all over the world,
03:18 and, you know, we live in a democracy as Americans,
03:21 so the idea of having a third term president,
03:24 and it just, it doesn't, that doesn't feel real to me.
03:30 What feels real is when people start treating each other
03:34 like human beings, and they're only on their phones,
03:36 and polarization gets to be very extreme.
03:40 What do you want people to feel after this?
03:42 How do you want people to react?
03:43 You know, it's really a movie that you want,
03:46 you know, it's a very, it's an audience movie.
03:49 You don't really want to put your own thoughts on it
03:52 or anything, it really is up to the individual experiencing it,
03:56 and I think that it'll, a lot of people will have
04:01 really interesting conversations after,
04:03 and be left with a lot to think about.
04:04 Definitely, that's how I felt.
04:06 Yeah.
04:06 And what happens next?
04:07 Something more light-hearted, perhaps?
04:09 Me?
04:10 Maybe a pretty cool sequel to what you've already done,
04:13 or something a bit more...
04:15 Light?
04:15 Yeah, light.
04:17 Toby's come back, who knows, right?
04:19 What? Toby's come back?
04:20 Oh yeah, yeah.
04:22 I mean, what's my summer's going to be?
04:24 Actually, my husband's working in the English countryside,
04:27 so I'll be in England this summer with my sons.
04:30 Yes, how does England compare to your home land?
04:33 I mean, I like it in the summertime.
04:35 Tell me about it.
04:38 Yeah, the winter, not my favourite.