Overview

• Dunst disclosed the episode in a Town & Country interview published Aug. 20 and kept medical specifics private, saying everyone is fine now.
• Jesse Plemons returned to Los Angeles with both children to be near extended family while Dunst stayed in Hungary to complete filming, with a brief visit home in April.
• The family had relocated to Budapest for Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down, renting a home and enrolling their older son in a local school.
• Dunst described intense worry during the separation, likening it to imagining worst-case scenarios as in Final Destination, and said the ordeal deepened their family bond.
• After promising a treat, their son chose the Bahamas, telling his parents he wanted a beach where his sandcastle would not wash away.