After marking 25 years of their professional relationship last year, Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst are about due for another collaboration.
The Oscar-winning writer and director revealed that she and the Virgin Suicides (1999) star have been “talking about” reuniting on another film nearly 10 years after their last team-up on 2017’s The Beguiled.
“I have so many—original ideas, adaptations. I’m kind of all over the place,” Coppola told Vanity Fair. “Kirsten and I were talking about doing something, but I just kind of put everything on pause. I really want to do something with Kirsten, and there was one thing we were thinking of and figuring out. I would love to get back to making a film again.”
Following their work on Coppola’s feature directorial debut The Virgin Suicides, Dunst starred in the director’s Marie Antoinette (2006) and The Beguiled, in addition to making a cameo as herself in The Bling Ring (2013).
Dunst previously reminisced about her work on The Virgin Suicides, sharing her continued praise for Coppola with Deadline. “I really think working with Sofia at such a young age, at 16, gave me the feeling that I was beautiful. I looked up to her so much,” she said in 2021.
Sofia Coppola directs Kirsten Dunst on the set of ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999)
“I thought she was—and I still do—just the coolest girl,” added Dunst. “She was the queen bee, an older sister to me, so the fact that she thought I was pretty, or cool—getting that validation from a woman you think is the coolest means you don’t need it from male directors. You know what I’m trying to say—it’s like, I didn’t have to be looked at through the male gaze to feel like, ‘I’m sexy.’ Sofia made me feel that way. My coming-of-age film, when people first saw me differently, was The Virgin Suicides. And that was through a female director’s eye, which is so different to how a male director would have seen me, I would think.”