{"id":82610,"date":"2025-08-21T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82610\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:56:12","slug":"kirsten-dunst-claims-everyone-has-been-mispronouncing-her-name-but-do-you-know-how-to-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82610\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Dunst claims ‘everyone’ has been mispronouncing her name – but do YOU know how to say it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By CHARLOTTE DEAN, ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 03:21 EDT, 21 August 2025 | Updated: 05:19 EDT, 21 August 2025 <\/p>\n

Kirsten Dunst<\/a>\u00a0has revealed ‘everyone’ has been mispronouncing her name wrong throughout her career as she revealed how to properly say it.<\/p>\n

The actress, 43, lamented people getting the pronunciation wrong and claimed that especially people in the UK fall short of getting it right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She insisted while she doesn’t ‘blame people’, she has had to answer to everything including ‘criss-ten’, ‘ker-stin’ and ‘keer-sten’ over the years.<\/p>\n

Despite her apparent annoyance over the issue, she insisted it’s ‘fine’ and said ‘who cares’ about whether it is being pronounced correctly or not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a TikTok<\/a> video from Town and Country<\/a> magazine, she said: ‘I mean, everyone messes up my name, so I give up.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t care… I don’t blame people. Like in England, they don’t really say my name right.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Dunst has revealed ‘everyone’ has been mispronouncing her name wrong throughout her career as she revealed how to properly say it (stock image)<\/p>\n

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The actress, 43, lamented people getting the pronunciation wrong and claimed that especially people in the UK fall short of getting it right<\/p>\n

‘The last set, everyone was saying my name wrong. There was like Swedish people and people from Hungary<\/a>. You just give up.’<\/p>\n

Kirsten confirmed the proper way to say her name is ‘Keer-sten’.<\/p>\n

She joked: ‘But again, who cares? It’s fine.’<\/p>\n

Reacting to the news in the comments section, fans said: ‘Once Kirsten explained how her name was pronounced decades ago, I never forgot. She said it’s K-ir “ear” and gestured to her ear’; ‘As someone whose first name is constantly butchered I too just answer to anything at this point like whatever lol’;<\/p>\n

‘Omg I thought it was Ker-stin my whole life’; ‘I genuinely will never understand the difference between Kirsten and Kirsten’; ‘Yep, I’m a Kirsten and same’; ‘I’m a Kirsten (Kur) and I feel this in my soul’.<\/p>\n

“Again, who cares? It’s fine”. We love an unbothered queen!; ‘Omg she’s the reason everyone mispronounces my name. It’s Kur-sten.’<\/p>\n

Kirsten previously revealed she had a frustrating nickname on the set of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy.<\/p>\n

She played Mary Jane Watson alongside Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker \/ Spider-Man in the film series between 2002 and 2007.<\/p>\n

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Reacting to the news in the comments section, fans said: ‘Once Kirsten explained how her name was pronounced decades ago, I never forgot’<\/p>\n

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She insisted while she doesn’t ‘blame people’, she has had to answer to everything including ‘criss-ten’, ‘ker-stin’ and ‘keer-sten’ over the years (pictured in July 2025)<\/p>\n

She told Marie Claire magazine: ‘It was a joke, but on Spider-Man, they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie.<\/p>\n

‘But I never said anything \u2026 Like, don’t call me that.’<\/p>\n

If it had been post-MeToo movement, she might have said something to make her frustrations clear.<\/p>\n

Kirsten said: ‘You didn’t say anything. You just took it.’<\/p>\n

The Bring It On star also revealed she took her two-year break from acting after becoming frustrated with being offered all the ‘sad mom’ roles after starring in 2021’s psychological drama The Power of the Dog as widow Rose Gordon.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘Every role I was being offered was the sad mom. To be honest, that’s been hard for me\u2026 because I need to feed myself.<\/p>\n

‘The hardest thing is being a mom and \u2026 not feeling like, I have nothing for myself. That’s every mother \u2014 not just me.<\/p>\n

‘There’s definitely less good roles for women my age.’<\/p>\n

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