Kirsten Dunst Opens Up About the Belittlement filming the “Spider-Man” movies.
Kirsten Dunst Says She Felt Like She Was Being Humiliated While Shooting ‘Spider-Man’ Trilogy. Dunst plays Jaune Watts in Spider-Man movies.
In a recent interview with Marine Claire, she said that the set called her “girly girl,” which made her discomfiting.
“They would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie. ‘We need girly-girl,'” she recalled. “But I never said anything. Like, don’t call me that.”
She said that it was hard for actors to speak up before the #MeToo movement in 2018. “You didn’t say anything. You just took it,” she said.
She also says that when she started her career, she gained a lot of confidence by working with female filmmakers.
Kirsten Dunst said, “I feel like I get hired because I’m someone that they might want to sleep with.”
She continued, “I think that’s probably why I migrated to so many female directors at a younger age because I didn’t want to feel that way.”
According to The Independent, Dunst says that when she was 19 years old and during the shooting of her first film, a producer took her to a dentist to get her teeth replaced.
Dunst said, “I was like, ‘Mmmmm, no, I like my teeth.”
In another interview with The Independent, she said, “The pay disparity between me and Spider-Man was very extreme.”
“I didn’t even think about it,” she said. “I was just like, ‘Oh yeah, Tobey is playing Spider-Man.’ But you know who was on the cover of the second Spider-Man poster? Spider-Man and ME.”
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Kirsten Dunst Update (2026)
Updated August 2026. Dunst has kept a steady run of high-profile work since. She’s now filming A Minecraft Movie 2, cast as Alex with production underway as of May 2026, and she’s set to join Sydney Sweeney in the Housemaid’s Secret, expected to start shooting in fall 2026. She also has Ruben Ostlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down and Alejandro Landes’ Reptilia on her upcoming slate.
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