-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-
and Academy Award-nominated actress
you know from her work in FX's "Fargo,"
in films such as "The Power of the Dog,"
"The Beguiled," "Interview with the Vampire,"
"Marie Antoinette," "Bring It On."
She stars in "Civil War,"
which opens in theaters and IMAX nationwide on April 12th.
Please welcome back to the show
our friend Kirsten Dunst, everybody.
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Welcome back. -Thank you. It's been a minute.
-It has been a minute. I've been lucky enough --
Your husband, Jesse Plemons, has been on a couple of times.
So I do feel as though I've been able
to keep up with your family.
-Yeah, this is his safe space of interviews.
He really, really loves you.
-I'm very happy, 'cause I love both of you a great deal.
But I do want you to tell him when you get home
that I also love him. -Okay, good.
He's a real "Closer Look" guy.
He's always on his phone outside like...
I'm like, "What are you doing?"
He's like, "Catching up on my Seth."
Yeah.
-And you've added -- since the last time I saw you,
you've added a couple of kids.
Congratulations. -Yes. Oh, yeah. Wow.
-Yeah. -Yeah, it's been that long.
Whoa, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
-And you -- I mean, we ended up adding a girl,
but I'm right in the wheelhouse of what we had, two boys.
Two boys right now running around.
How you feeling? -I mean, they're wrestling me.
They're wrestling -- It's a lot. It's a lot.
-It is. You can't stop them from wrestling.
-No, you can't. No. Especially wrestling naked.
-Yeah. They love to wrestle naked.
There's a lot -- Yeah, they're out all the time.
-All the time. -Now, is it --
I heard you say that --
Is it the oldest that likes to dress up like Spider-Man?
-It's the youngest, James. -The youngest, okay.
And does he have, like, the full zip-up Spider-Man suit?
-He does, but he mostly just wears his T-shirt
and his hoodie over it all the way zipped to the top.
-Okay, gotcha. -And then, you know,
running around the house like, "Tss, tss, tss, tss, tss."
-Now, I -- we have the full-body one.
And I will tell you, the scariest thing
Spider-Man ever said is, "I have to poop."
'Cause when those things are on,
you're just like, "Ah, son of a gun."
But you're, I mean, again, too young to know
that their mom was in "Spider-Man."
-Yes. I mean, he -- well, he watches it,
but he doesn't care about my part, obviously.
-Gotcha.
So really, you're on-screen,
and it doesn't even register?
I think 'cause I have red hair.
-Okay, gotcha. -Just is like, whatever.
I'm the boring part of the show.
-It's really funny if he was like,
"You should dye your hair,
'cause you look like Spider-Man's girlfriend."
-Be amazing.
-You and Jesse -- Jesse has a scene in this film,
which is really, and we're going to talk a lot about it,
but it's a wonderful film, and Jesse's in it.
This is the third time you guys have worked together.
Do I have it right? -Yeah.
-"Fargo," you met on "Fargo" Season 2.
-Yeah. -"Power of the Dog."
-Yeah. -And then this.
Let me just say, no duds.
You guys have worked together three times.
No duds. -You're right.
I didn't think about that. -Because let's be honest.
I mean, I'm not gonna --
I mean, every actor is in some duds.
-I mean, we all are, yeah. -Yeah.
So the fact that you and your husband
have managed to avoid the duds,
it really says something about you guys.
-Like, sets us up for failure.
-Yeah. You know what? My money on the next one.
Huge dud. -Dud. Yeah. Me too.
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-But this role was not --
Jesse was not originally cast.
-No. He wasn't. It was another actor.
And it happened during rehearsal that the actor dropped out,
and Jesse was there with the kids,
and I suggested him, and --
-He's just -- He was nearby.
-Just in Atlanta with the kids. Yeah.
-Now, did you suggest him, or was Jesse like,
"Hey, you know, ah." -I did.
Who wants to play that role, by the way?
-I will say, he plays a real bad guy.
-Yeah, and nobody wants to play this role.
It's very intense.
He feels bad he played that role.
-It is a real -- Yes.
I will say, it helps that I feel like we've seen Jesse
over the years, like, both play good guys and bad guys,
and we know him to be a good guy.
You're right, if it was some actor I'd never seen before,
I would be, like, repulsed every time I saw him ever since.
-Yeah. -So I feel like Jesse,
like, took one for the team.
-He really did.
And, yeah, he's a brilliant actor.
-He really is a brilliant actor. -I know.
So I'm so proud, 'cause he is the kindest person.
So it's -- Yeah, so he's just a really fantastic actor.
-And do you -- What is it like
when you guys are on set together?
I mean, again, you met on a set.
So does it feel a little romantic
when you're on set together?
-Not in this scene, but --
-I'm so glad you're saying that,
'cause obviously nobody here has seen it yet.
It'd be so weird if you said how romantic it was
and then they saw the scene.
They'd be like, "They got a creepy marriage."
-I was very -- We were respectful of each other's space
because he's playing someone really awful and racist.
It's a really awful scene.
And so I think everyone --
The way Alex shot it was very immersive.
-This is the director, Alex Garland, who's wonderful.
-Yes. So the way he shot it --
Every scene felt very real and, like, documentarian-like,
you know, so we all gave each other space.
-So obviously there's been a little bit of "Spider-Man."
I mean, I'm trying to think. Has Jesse been in any --
What's the first Jesse project you're going to show your kids?
-Ooh, "Friday Night Lights"?
-Yeah, that's probably right.
What's the last of either of your projects
you're going to show them?
-Oh, together? This one, obviously.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -I feel like maybe on
their 28th birthday. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-You're like, "We got a movie we want to show you."
I want to talk more about the movie.
Stick around.
We're going to be right back with more Kirsten after this.