Kirsten Dunst has opened up about the tough time she's had in the movie business as a woman.
Kirsten Dunst was called the "girly-girl" on the set of 'Spider-Man'.
The 41-year-old actress starred as Mary Jane Watson alongside Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's ‘Spider-Man’ trilogy between 2002 and 2007, and she has admitted she felt forced to keep quiet about the name-calling because otherwise she could risk her job.
Kirsten told Marie Claire: “It was a joke, but on Spider-Man, they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie.
“But I never said anything … Like, don’t call me that.”
If it had been post-MeToo movement, she might have had said something.
Kirsten said: “You didn’t say anything. You just took it.”
The 'Bring It On' star also revealed she took her two-year break from acting after being "offered" all the "sad mom" roles after starring in 2021's psychological drama 'The Power of the Dog' as widow Rose Gordon.
She said: “Every role I was being offered was the sad mom.
“To be honest, that’s been hard for me…because I need to feed myself. The hardest thing is being a mom and … not feeling like, I have nothing for myself. That’s every mother—not just me.
“There’s definitely less good roles for women my age.”
Kirsten also revealed she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after she finished 'Civil War'.
She said: "I remember hearing them practice an explosion. We were in the hair and makeup trailer, which was very far away from set, and the whole trailer shook.
"There's so much gunfire, and then you look at the news and it's a school shooting again.”
Kirsten "had PTSD for a good two weeks after.
"I remember coming home and eating lunch and I felt really empty."
However, she took on the job because roles for women her age are limited.
She said: “Yes, that’s why I did Civil War.”
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