Kirsten Dunst has opened up about filming Marie Antoinette, admitting that she was “nervous” and “overwhelmed” during the n-de scenes.
Marie Antoinette co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Jamie Dornan have reunited for Variety’s Actors on Actors roundtable chats and looked back on their time filming the 2006 historical drama.
Dunst, 39, recalled how uncomfortable she was filming n-de scenes for the colourful feature based on the 18th century doomed Queen of France, reports the New York Post.
The Power Of The Dog star played the title role while Dornan, 39, portrayed Axel von Fersen – a friend of Marie Antoinette’s from the Swedish court. The two were both 22 years old when the filming began.
Dunst admitted that she was “nervous” throughout the film’s production, namely the n-de scenes.
“All our stuff was like making out, and I’m not comfortable with that. It’s never comfortable, ever,” the actress said.
While there was a steamy s-x scene and one of her undressing, Dunst also told Dornan that one scene, in particular, made her uneasy, but it was scrapped from the movie.
“I think my first time I even showed my breasts was with [director Sofia Coppola]. She never used the take, and I don’t even think you were there. I felt overwhelmed too,” Dunst said to Dornan.
The Fifty Shades Of Gray actor replied, “That’s crazy to know. I mean, you handled it well. I thought you were in control of everything. I remember we had to improvise, and Sofia did this thing of how we didn’t really meet until we met in the scene.”
Dunst opened up about her many collaborations with Coppola last year.
Dunst and Coppola, 50, also worked together on the latter’s films The Virgin Suicides and The Beguiled.
During a video interview for Netflix in December, Dunst talked about how certain producers wanted her to fix her teeth and Coppola helped with her self-esteem.
She explained that when she filmed TheVirgin Suicides in 1999: “It was the first time I was seen as a beautiful woman, and [to] have it be a female who gave me that … it was very empowering for me at that age in terms of the way I felt about myself and my beauty.”
“That’s a weird age,” said Dunst, who was 16 when she shot the drama. “[Coppola] just gave me a lot of confidence that I carried throughout my career in terms of producers wanting to fix my teeth … People just trying to change and manipulate young actresses in a way to make them the same,” she said.
“She made me feel beautiful for who I was, and that was a very pivotal time in my life to feel that way and to be given that.”
