{"id":209276,"date":"2025-12-05T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/they-gave-me-so-much-more-fearlessness-kirsten-dunst-thanks-her-children-for-acting-gift\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:01:15","slug":"they-gave-me-so-much-more-fearlessness-kirsten-dunst-thanks-her-children-for-acting-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/they-gave-me-so-much-more-fearlessness-kirsten-dunst-thanks-her-children-for-acting-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They gave me so much more fearlessness&#8217; Kirsten Dunst thanks her children for acting gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-05\" datetime=\"1764943275\" pubdate=\"\">5 December 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/kirsten-dunst\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,kirsten-dunst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirsten Dunst<\/a> has become a more &#8220;fearless&#8221; actor since having children. <\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Kirsten Dunst thanks her children for acting gift<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old star has kids Ennis, seven, and James, four, with her actor husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jesse-plemons\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jesse-plemons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Plemons<\/a>, and she gives &#8220;so much more&#8221; to her roles since become a mother. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an In Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, she is quoted by the Daily Mail as saying: &#8220;I think anybody who has experienced having children, everything changes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, it gave me so much more fearlessness in my acting, which is such a gift that they gave me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, they gave me, this isn&#8217;t the most important thing, but now when I do have the time to work and want to work, I can give it so much more. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I feel like that&#8217;s with any career and growing up. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I mean, with this industry, it can really, I think, mess with people&#8217;s minds more in a negative way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nKirsten counts herself lucky that she hasn&#8217;t been caught up in &#8220;frivolous parts&#8221; of the movie industry, and she praised her &#8220;wonderful husband&#8221; for supporting her. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been very lucky that I have surrounded myself with good people, and I have a wonderful husband, and people that don&#8217;t get caught up in the frivolous parts of this industry. So that&#8217;s helped.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Also, I think the truer you stay to yourself and the less you worry about everybody else, then the more the opportunities come, and the right ones come to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Roofman star also confessed she has experienced burnout in the past, but she now only accepts acting roles if they &#8220;really mean something&#8221; to her. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I have been burnt out before, and I haven&#8217;t sustained that energy of being able to have a work-life balance. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I also went to school, and I&#8217;d make movies, and I&#8217;d go back and forth. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But now, I am in a position right now where I can wait, wait till I want to work.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I have two kids. I&#8217;ve been enjoying just being a mum and then just waiting for projects that really mean something to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier this year, Jesse admitted he &#8220;got lucky&#8221; when he met Kirsten on the set of FX drama Fargo. <\/p>\n<p>\nDuring an interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM\u2019s Radio Andy, he said: &#8220;Immediately we just hit it off in a creative sense and felt like we could trust each other. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I knew that we were gonna be playing husband and wife and spending a lot of time together. And, you know, you never know if it\u2019s something you\u2019re going to have to kind of work for. And then sometimes you get lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/gave-much-fearlessness-kirsten-dunst-thanks-children-acting-gift-1434171.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 December 2025 Kirsten Dunst has become a more &#8220;fearless&#8221; actor since having children. Kirsten Dunst thanks her children for acting gift The 43-year-old star has kids Ennis, seven, and James, four, with her actor husband Jesse Plemons, and she gives &#8220;so much more&#8221; to her roles since become a mother. 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