Kirsten Dunst says ‘Civil War’ scene is “one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen”

Kirsten Dunst has said that a scene from Alex Garland’s Civil War in which she appears opposite her husband Jesse Plemons is “one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen”.

Dunst stars in the film as a photojournalist named Lee who attempts to capture footage of a modern civil war breaking out in the United States. At one point in the film, she is confronted and threatened by a soldier, played by Plemons.

Dunst recently told Entertainment Tonight that her husband usually “wouldn’t play a part like this”.

“He did a favor for us because that is a really disturbing role to play, so it’s not like he was jumping at the chance to play the role,” Dunst said of her husband.

“Even reading the script, it’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. When we rolled up to set, it was just very, very tense and emotional for everybody filming that scene.”

The scene was filmed for “two days straight”, becoming all the more “intense” due to Garland avoiding using traditional close-up shots.

“He sort of did it in a nontraditional way to make sure that he wasn’t breaking up the momentum, and he didn’t do traditional close-ups where you had crews stepping in,” she continued. “So it almost felt really immersive. The whole movie [does] but [especially] that scene in particular.”

It’s not the first time the couple have worked together, having previously both featured in The Power of the Dog, while they met playing a couple on Fargo. 

Meanwhile, Dunst recently admitted that she had been “miserable” while filming the iconic upside down kiss in Spider-Man.

Speaking on ITV’s Jonathan Ross Show, Dunst said: “I remember Sam Raimi giving me a book of famous kisses to be inspired, but also he really wanted to make it special, even though it was kind of miserable actually doing it. It was pouring with rain, freezing, Tobey couldn’t breathe so it was almost like I was resuscitating him.”

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