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Vanities
Kirsten Dunst
Vanities
Kirsten Dunst
OCCUPATION: Actress. PROVENANCE: Point Pleasant, New Jersey. AGE: 17. LAUNCHED HER CAREER IN: Interview with the Vampire, in which she literally cut her teeth on Tom Cruise. MASTERED THE SWEET-KID-DOING-HER-BEST-IN-AN-UGLY-WORLD THING BY: Taking on Washington spinmeisters and bronzed Hollywood producers in Wag the Dog, with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman; floating above the trashy universe of beauty-pageant competition in Drop Dead Gorgeous; and cracking Watergate in Dick. NOW EXPLODING IN ALL HER NEWLY MINTED STONE-COLD-FOX GLORY IN: Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, as a luscious Catholic schoolgirl who only looks frigid. HOW WE CAN TELL THIS ONE IS WISE BEYOND HER YEARS: "The thing I love about The Virgin Suicides is that there's not much dialogue, and it's more about the faces and what people are doing. Sometimes words get in the way." HOW WE KNOW SHE'S STILL JUST A 17-YEAR-OLD KID: "I dread math. Trig—ugh!"
—KRISTA SMITH
—KRISTA SMITH
