Kirsten Dunst has been in the filmmaking industry for a long, long time. She started acting when she was only six years old, starring in a minor role in Woody Allen's short film "Oedipus Wrecks."
However, it was the movie "Interview with the Vampire," which she did at age 12 with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise that really cemented her acting career. She then dabbled into drama with the role of Amy in "Little Women" and fantasy adventure in "Jumanji."
As she grew older, she began starring in iconic teenage films such as "The Virgin Suicides" in 1999, "Bring It On" in 2000, and "Crazy/Beautiful" in 2001.
In 2002, she landed the role of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy, which she co-starred in with Tobey Maguire.
One would think that with Dunst's resume, the actress would be happy to continue her flourishing acting career. However, Dunst has decided to shift into television instead.
She will be a part of Channel 4's second season of "Fargo," which is loosely based on the 1996 Coen Brothers film of the same name. She will play Peggy, a 70s small-town wife who dreams of becoming a celebrity hairdresser.
During an interview with The Guardian, Dunst shared the reason why she traded the film industry for television.
"People don't go to the cinema unless it's an event any more," she said. "So the movie industry is in a weird place, for sure, and the creative people are blossoming on television."
"There are just too many movies being made, I think. So many of them get lost. Too many cooks in the kitchen - the studio's editing it, the producers are editing it, the director's editing, too. But everyone has their hand in it, so whose movie is it at the end of the day?" she continued.
The result, in the end, is too much "homogenised" fare, the actress said, where creativity is stumped by huge amounts of money.
"People don't need all the money they're using. That's the other thing: when you have too much time, too much money, the creative starts to slip away. It just does," she said.
Dunst actually finds it more challenging to work on television than in film.
"Doing a television show is much, much harder work than film, because you're doing 10 pages a day. You don't get that many takes," she explained. "And my character does not stop talking."
What she does to remember all her lines is "doing it a bunch of times the night before, right before bed... and then you sleep and it's like: 'It's all in my brain.' It's amazing!"
