‘Civil War’ Star Kirsten Dunst On Her Turn As A War Correspondent: “It Was Terrifying To Be A Part Of ”

https://deadline.com/2024/11/civil-war-kirsten-dunst-interview-1236188167/

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  1. > I knew was going to do something provoking, but reading it, I was on the edge of my seat. I didn’t even feel like I was reading a script. It felt like I was holding my breath the entire time. And then, to actually start filming it, the way Alex shoots is very realistic and almost like a play. So, by the end of the film, with two weeks of just straight gunfire, it was terrifying to be a part of.

    >There was still a lot of COVID precautions at the time, so as soon as I knew I got the role, I had Alex send me the camera that I was using. I worked with a photographer in Austin, Texas, because my husband [Jesse Plemons] was working there. I wanted to go to places where it was really crowded, but I couldn’t. I basically had the camera on me at all times and just shot my kids, shot Christmas, shot whatever I could. And then we watched this Marie Colvin documentary called *Under the Wire.* That was the most helpful for me, research-wise, but also, what these people go through and how they risk their lives and what they see is just so horrendous. That documentary was intense. It’s deeply disturbing.

    >It just was a very unfiltered war documentary — the horrors of war and the casualties of children and all of it. And you watch her die in this documentary. The whole thing is so harrowing and makes you really think about all these journalists out there trying to tell the truth. To even be there is obviously risking your life. So that weight of capturing things and not interfering, even though on a human level, you’re like, “Should I take this picture? Should I not?” I’m sure it’s so complicated. I just have so much respect for war journalists.

  4. I felt that movie had a lot of potential given the… *everything* of the past few years, yet the final product was quite underwhelming.

  6. End of the movie was super intense. So real and believable. It was such a possible reality which really felt like no other movie I’ve seen in recent times.

  7. And now we will get to enjoy the real thing all because the price of beer and eggs would be “lowered”.

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