Kirsten Dunst is setting the record straight.
During a video interview with Town & Country magazine, she revealed the proper way to pronounce her name after she said many people have been saying it wrong this whole time.
“It’s KIER-sten, yeah,” she said. “But again, who cares. It’s fine.”
The “Spider-Man” actor said that “everyone messes up” her name and she’s gotten to a point where she doesn’t care anymore.
“I’ll answer to ‘KRIS-ten,’ ‘KIR-sten’ or ‘KIER-sten,’ which is how you say my name, but I don’t blame people,” she said.
“On the last set, everyone was saying my name wrong. But there were Swedish people and people from Hungary, and you just give up,” she added.
Dunst, 43, is now gearing up for the Oct. 10 release of her new movie, “Roofman.” The film, starring Dunst and Channing Tatum, tells the story of Jeffrey Manchester, a famous rooftop robber who spent months hiding out inside a Toys R Us. In the film, Dunst plays Leigh Wainscott, a beautiful store employee who steals Jeffrey’s heart.
When Dunst saw a rough cut of the film with her husband, Jesse Plemons, she told Town & Country, she and her hubby kept turning to each other as if to say, โThis is great, right?โ
โI havenโt felt that way leaving a theater in a long time,โ she said.
โItโs like a Hal Ashby movie,” Dunst added, while also praising Tatum, who “moves like a dancer.”
The “Little Women” star noted that the movie didn’t have a big budget and that most of the funds went into building a fully stocked Toys R Us replica in North Carolina.
She said her kids still wear the pajamas she โborrowedโ from the fake store. She has two kids with Plemons, Ennis and James.
