In a new interview with Marie Claire, Kirsten Dunst shared that every role she was being offered was the sad mom in the two years that followed her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in 2021's The Power of the Dog. In The Power of the Dog, Dunst appeared as a woman named Rose who marries a wealthy cattle rancher (played by her husband, Jesse Plemons). Despite the film's success, Dunst told Marie Claire that she felt frustrated with the offers that followed, explaining her absence from the screen before starring in director Alex Garland's new drama, Civil War. "To be honest, that's been hard for me...because I need to feed myself. The hardest thing is being a mom and...not feeling like, I have nothing for myself," Dunst said of that two-year time gap. "That's every mother — not just me." "There's definitely less good roles for women my age," she added, sharing that the dearth of quality parts is part of the reason why she turned toward Civil War. In that movie, she plays a photojournalist desperately trying to cover — and survive — a war-torn United States.
