UK Harper's Bazaar May 2014 : Kirsten Dunst by David Slijper

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[Srdjan]

I can't believe it!!! Oh this made my day!!! Thank you, thank you Vogue28 for posting this!
Very stunning, springy, optimistic. I love Kirsten very much.

 

[TaylorBinque]

Finally. As a fan of Kirsten Dunst, this makes my day.

 

[honeycombchild]

That's a really lovely cover, perfect example of a cover suiting the season. Surprised it's Kirsten however.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Such a gorgeous cover shot of her.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Fab

 

[catherine88]

Fantastic!
I hope it's not April Fools' Day joke.

 

[Nymphaea]

She looks beautiful, a bit bohemian spring.

 

[HeatherAnne]

An unexpected choice of the delightful variety! She looks absolutely divine

 

[HeatherAnne]

Kirsten Dunst is Bazaar's May cover star




Our May coverstar, Kirsten Dunst, talks to Harper’s Bazaar’s Ajesh Patalay about playing opposite Viggo Mortensen in her new film, The Two Faces of January, how femininity has become undervalued - and her passion for a onesie.

“He’s surprisingly hilarious,” says Kirsten Dunst of Viggo Mortensen, with whom she co-stars in her forthcoming film. “The first time I met him, he was very reserved. It was in an elevator. I was like, 'Hi.' He was like, 'Oh, hi.' I learned later he was very shy. So I was nervous, even a little scared, to work with him. I thought, “This is going to be intense.” Then I got the whole other side, which I don’t think many people know. He should do comedy, I’ve told him that… I’m sure he wouldn’t be happy with people knowing how fun he is.”

With some 30 films under her belt, including Interview with the Vampire, The Virgin Suicides, the Spider-Man trilogy and Melancholia (for which she won Best Actress at Cannes), Dunst can afford to be choosy, but the decision, says Patalay, who met her in LA for our cover interview, was a good one. In The Two Faces of January, based on a book by Patricia Highsmith (the author of the Ripley novels), Dunst plays a young American travelling in Greece in 1962, who finds herself torn between two men; it is, says Patalay, “a handsome thriller in the mode of Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley.”

Fashion becomes less important to Dunst as she gets older, she says, although she is still effortlessly stylish - the day of her interview she was dressed in a Chloé blouse and Lanvin shoes she picked up on a recent trip to Paris. “I cared more about outfits when I was younger… the older I get, the lazier I get," she says. "Have you ever heard of Free City sweats? They’re sweatpants, but very, very comfortable. I can get very comfortable." This admission prompts another: Dunst also owns a onesie. It has monkeys on it and she has worn it once, on Christmas Eve, when she was given it by her mother’s friend. "I just took silly pictures in it because it looks ridiculous."

On any ambitions to direct one day, she says: "I would love it. I love getting immersed in things and being busy all the time. It’s just that I’m not going to write my own script. I don’t think I can, I honestly don’t. It would be easier to find a book to adapt. But, I’m not interested in directing right now. Maybe in three years. Who knows? Maybe I’ll have children then. I probably will – one day – want to try it," concludes Dunst, who is dating the actor Garrett Hedlund.

Acting was something Dunst was "definitely meant to do in life", and though she performed from a young age, landing her first commercial at the age of three, her status as a child star seems not to have interfered with her innate good sense, says Patalay. Staying grounded was important, especially after she moved, aged 11, with her mother and younger brother to the San Fernando Valley (where she still lives, in a house in Toluca Lake). "None of [my friends] were actors, really," she says. "I actually underplayed myself [at school] because I didn’t want to be a target. The fact that I was an actress made me nervous. I never wanted to be called names or anything. I was afraid of that."

Dunst is surprisingly outspoken on the subject of gender: "I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued," she says. "We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking – it’s a valuable thing my mum created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour. I’m sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That’s why relationships work…"

When films are behind Dunst, she says it will just be her and her best friend, Molly, with whom she used to put on plays in the backyard and share boy crushes. "We’re going to live together in a house," she says, "and who gives a **** what we eat, and who cares how many cats we have? Because you know, you have your girlfriends for life."

The Two Faces of January is released nationwide on 16 May.

To read this interview in full, buy the May Issue of Harper’s Bazaar on newsstands now.

harpersbazaar.co.uk

 

[justaguy]

Wow, what a nice surprise seeing Kirsten on the cover!

 

[gazebo]

So lovely to see Kirsten. Love her

 

[Melly5525]

What a pretty cover, she looks gorgeous and love the Miu Miu dress.

 

[GlamorousBoy]

this is what I call springy cover

 

[Iconolast]

Very nice. This is the first Harper's UK cover that I've liked in a looooong time.

 

[KoV]

This is the loveliest celeb cover I've seen in a while. I love the slightly ethereal vibe, may flowers, appropriate amount of text, and you can't go wrong with Kirsten.

 

[fluxxx]

simply stunning! very springy and effortless. I love the laid back mood from the cover. It's nice to see Kiki again on the cover of big magazine

 

[gossiping]

it's an average cover but i love kirsten so glad it's her

 

[kroqjock]

I'll post two of the edits. The rest can be posted by someone else.


#1 - American Beauty
PH: David Slijper
Style: Leith CLark
Celeb: Kirsten Dunst









All images taken from the HB UK app

 

[kroqjock]

#2 - Five Hundred Days of Summer
PH: Regan Cameron
Style: Miranda Almond
Model: Marikka Juhler









All images retrieved from the HB UK app