Overview

• Kirsten Dunst said she has given up correcting people on her name and doesn’t blame those who say it as “Kristen” or “Ker-stin.”
• She noted that crews in England and on recent international sets often mispronounced it, adding that she answers to the common variants.
• In the same interview, she said her younger son, James, had a frightening health scare during filming in Budapest earlier this year but that everyone is fine now.
• Dunst co-stars with Channing Tatum in Roofman and described leaving an early screening with husband Jesse Plemons feeling excited about the film.
• Recent reports also revisit her accounts of industry pressures earlier in her career, including unwanted on-set nicknames and attempts to alter her appearance during the Spider-Man era.