Kirsten Dunst is not known for her work on television (except for one of her very early roles on ER back in the day), but she’s about to be part of one of TV’s best shows when the second season of Fargo starts on October 12 on FX. Her involvement with a current critical darling might be why she’s on Team TV as opposed to Team Movies, because right now, Dunst is joining other actors in saying that TV is where it’s at if you’re a creative type.
The actress told The Guardian:
“People don’t go to the cinema unless it’s an event any more. …
“[T]here are just too many movies being made, I think. So many of them get lost. Too many cooks in the kitchen – the studio’s editing it, the producers are editing it, the director’s editing, too. But everyone has their hand in it, so whose movie is it at the end of the day?”
She added that big blockbuster movies get such huge budgets that they sometimes don’t even know what to do with all that money, and that kind of waste causes creativity to “slip away.” Television, however, is where “creative minds are blossoming,” she says. It’s also more of a challenge, at least it is to play her character on Fargo:
“Doing a television show is much, much harder work than film, because you’re doing 10 pages a day. You don’t get that many takes. And my character does not stop talking.”
Clearly it looks like Dunst was just as traumatized by Spider-Man 3 as we all were. She will, however, be happy(ish?) to know that her director for that trilogy, Sam Raimi, has a connection to Fargo. The Coen brothers, who directed the movie Fargo and executive produce the series, are longtime collaborators and friends with Raimi, who employed Joel Coen as an “assistant editor” on the first Evil Dead movie. They also share actors pretty often, including Bruce Campbell, who appeared by way of an old soap opera clip being watched by Peter Stormare in Fargo and will appear as presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in the show. Campbell also appeared in all three Spider-Man movies, so he and Dunst are obviously best buddies.
You will get to see Campbell as the Gipper and Dunst as Peggy Blumquist when Fargo season two premieres Monday, October 12.
(Via Variety)
