Kirsten Dunst
, the Mary Jane Watson of Sam Raimi's
Spider-Man
trilogy, has recently materialized from the ether to quickly become the people's champion. After a self-imposed hiatus, Dunst, now a mother of two and an Oscar nominee to boot, has candidly revealed why she'd sling back into the superhero fray, and her answer is one we were definitely not expecting.
It's been a minute (two years, to be exact) since Dunst appeared on theater screens, a break she attributed to the challenging task of shedding the "sad mom" typecast that's dogged her steps post-motherhood.
Despite her remarkable career, which boasts a turn as a tormented mother in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, Hollywood's bigwigs seemed to offer only narrow roles to an actress of her caliber. Typecasting is something most actors fervently try to dodge, for good reason.
This might then explain why, when Marie Claire broached the subject of a superhero genre return, Dunst's response was refreshingly frank: "Yes, because you get paid a lot of money, and I have two children and I support my mother." It's a practicality that resonates in an industry often shrouded in glamor yet not immune to the economic realities facing working parents everywhere.