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Dunst downplays Cannes booing for 'Marie Antoinette'
2006-10-06
US screen starlet Kirsten Dunst has shrugged off the booing she received at the Cannes film festival for her portrayal of Marie Antoinette, saying she expected as much of French critics. Her starring role in the Sofia Coppola film drew scattered applause at its Cannes press screening in May, but not enough to drown out the sniggers and booing. "Of course the French are going to boo!" Dunst said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly due to appear on Monday. "It takes a lot of cojones (balls) to make a movie with Americans in these roles as French royalty, and then show it in Cannes to the French," she added. "I didn't take it to heart. How would we feel about the French doing a movie about George Washington with French actors?" Filmed on location in the palace of Versailles outside Paris, "Marie Antoinette" is the long-awaited follow-up to Coppola's Oscar-winning script for "Lost in Translation." It goes on release in the United States on October 20. It tracks the life of the 14-year-old princess from her arrival in the French court to the storming of the palace by revolutionary mobs. "This is the role where I think I was probably allowed to be the most myself," Dunst told Entertainment Weekly. "This was my most satisfying (part). And for me, when I watched the film for the first time, it was the most vulnerable I've ever been in a film before. I really showed myself in this movie the most," she said. Muzi.com News
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