Kirsten Dunst isn’t pleased her husband Jesse Plemons’s work in Bugonia didn’t earn him an Oscar nomination.
The Beguiled star, Kirsten Dunst, 43, made her feelings known when she reposted Stavros Halkias’s Instagram Story bashing the snub.
The social media picture showed Plemons’ co-star in the sci-fi dark comedy thriller wearing an angry expression while pointing a gun at the camera.
‘Me to everyone who didn’t nominate Jesse Plemmons [sic] for Best Actor tho,’ the comic wrote across the photo.
Kirsten Dunst, who made a rare comment about her children and motherhood last month, also recycled a clip from Ev Durán’s Bluff Council Podcast that featured the host lauding Plemons for his ‘transcendent performance.’
‘Jesse Plemons gives one of the greatest performances of all time,’ the Emmy-winning producer praised.
‘Jesse Plemons in this film gives [a] Daniel Day-Lewis-Sidney Poitier-level transcendent performance that I worry is being completely overlooked for f—in’ Chalamet’s Marty Supreme, which was a very good performance, but wasn’t — what Plemons does in this movie is beyond,’ Durán concluded.
In another Instagram post on January 9, Kirsten Dunst shared a photo of Plemons in a scene from the movie, writing in the caption: ‘Some top-level s**t.’
In the film, Plemons plays Teddy, a troubled conspiracy theorist and beekeeper who kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO (played by Emma Stone) believing that she’s an alien.
The Best Actor nominees include Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent.
Bugonia did manage to nab four other nominations, a Best Actress nod for Stone, Best Picture, Best Original Score and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Meanwhile, while speaking at an In Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia last month, Kirsten Dunst revealed how she’s become a more ‘fearless’ actor since having children
The Bring It On star has kids Ennis, seven, and James, four, with Plemons, and said she gives ‘so much more’ to her roles since become a mother.
‘I think anybody who has experienced having children, everything changes,’ she asserted. ‘For me, it gave me so much more fearlessness in my acting, which is such a gift that they gave me.
‘Also, they gave me, this isn’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. I feel like that’s with any career and growing up. I mean, with this industry, it can really, I think, mess with people’s minds more in a negative way.’
Kirsten Dunst counts herself lucky that she hasn’t been caught up in ‘frivolous parts’ of the movie industry, and she praised her ‘wonderful husband’ for supporting her.
She added: ‘I’ve been very lucky that I have surrounded myself with good people, and I have a wonderful husband, and people that don’t get caught up in the frivolous parts of this industry. So that’s helped.
‘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.’