Kirsten Dunst Says It Was ‘Terrifying’ Kissing Josh Hartnett in ‘The Virgin Suicides’

Kirsten Dunst was removed from the character she performed in The Virgin Suicides.

The 43-year-old Oscar nominee and the movie’s director, Sofia Coppola, spoke concerning the twenty fifth anniversary of their first challenge collectively throughout a particular screening of The Virgin Suicides on the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 1. 

Dunst revealed that when she first learn the script of the psychological romantic drama, her 16-year-old self was anxious, “as a result of it was a number of issues that I used to be feeling that I hadn’t expressed. They had been very personal.” 

“I used to be anxious about kissing Josh [Hartnett] within the automobile and making out with boys on the roof,” she confessed. “Which Sof did not make me do. She was like, ‘Simply nuzzle into their shoulder and we’ll shoot it abstractly.’ ”

“However I hadn’t entered this aspect of my very own character, although it was there,” she stated. 

Dunst starred because the fourth Lisbon sister, Lux, who has a short teenage romance with Hartnett’s Journey Fontaine. In a single pivotal scene, after a date at her home — amongst her sisters and fogeys — Lux sneaks out to kiss Journey. However she lunges on high of him whereas he’s accumulating his composure in his automobile. After their heated scene, she rapidly leaves to get inside earlier than her mother and father conduct “mattress checks.” 

“That was a very memorable night time,” Dunst defined. “So I used to be ready, [Sofia was] like, ‘Okay, you may go.’ And I needed to bounce on Josh in a automobile, which — I used to be a really harmless 16-year-old — was terrifying.” 

“I keep in mind his wig fell off one time. I used to be so embarrassed,” she recalled. She and 19-year-old Hartnett had taken a automobile journey again to the resort after the shoot, the place he informed her, “ ‘I feel you bit me.’ I used to be like, ‘Oh God.’ ”

“All of it was very actual,” Dunst continued. “The timing of it was actual, which gave you that sort of anxiousness watching it.”

Dunst and Coppola additionally revealed that they performed the tune “Loopy on You” by Coronary heart for Dunst and Hartnett through the shoot, which can also be the tune that accompanies the scene. 

“The tune helped,” Dunst stated of approaching the scene. “It helped to have a soundtrack for that shot.” Coppola rapidly added, “I feel a number of scenes, it helps to play the music.”

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The movie was written and directed by Coppola and was additionally her characteristic directorial debut. It premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant in 1999 earlier than premiering in a restricted variety of theaters throughout the U.S. on April 21, 2000.

The Virgin Suicides, which is predicated on a ebook of the identical title by Jeffrey Eugenides, is about in Nineteen Seventies Michigan and follows the 5 Lisbon sisters, whose Catholic mother and father are relentlessly strict and overprotective. One after the other, every sister takes her personal life, and the neighborhood boys whom they befriended of their adolescence are left to wrestle with the unspeakable tragedies.

The Virgin Suicides will be rented on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and YouTube.