Kirsten Dunst -- The New Debbie Harry!?
Filed under: Music & Musicals, RumorMonger, Newsstand
When shocking, strange or just plain crazy bits of information swim through the veins of movie news, there's often some way to disregard it. Maybe it's a rumor, or maybe the people in question aren't the best in the business -- so you can toss it off to a lack of taste. However, when the news is linked to the well-respected, you have to wonder what's in the water. This isn't the first time Kirsten Dunst news has stopped me in my tracks. I wondered what Sam Raimi was thinking with Spider-Man, and then what Sofia Coppola was thinking with Marie Antoinette. (I actually used to enjoy Dunst, but as time has passed, so has the appreciation.)Now, it looks like I will have to wonder what Michel Gondry is thinking. The man is responsible not only for intriguing music videos like Cibo Matto's Sugar Water, but also for the surreal Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the more recent, The Science of Sleep. Now, if inferences on her hints are true, Gondry is doing the unthinkable -- something that truly rivals Lindsay Lohan as Stevie Nicks. In an interview for New Zealand's online mag Stuff, Kirsten Dunst started hinting at her next project with Gondry: "[It's] about somebody who everybody knows, but I can't say who it is." She then admitted that the somebody in question is a "well-known singer." If she is, indeed, going to be singing about a Heart of Glass, let's just hope they use the original music and not a Dunst version. To give her credit, she looks similar, but can she pull of the curling lip and killer eyes?
[via FilmIck]









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1-08-2007 @ 3:25AM
marty said...
Never been a big fan of Kirsten Dunst and have not even seen any of the "Spiderman" films but having just seen "Marie Antoinette", I thought she was fantastic in this very under-rated masterpiece. The film is vastly superior to some of the Oscar-hype films like the vastly over-rated "Babel" and "Pan's Labyrinth".
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1-08-2007 @ 4:56AM
Richard Brunton said...
Wow, the rumour that she was playing Debbie Harry was about in October, so this looks like it could be backing that up if Gondry's on that film.
Well she does kind of look like her...but can she sing which is the important part.
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1-08-2007 @ 7:18AM
ihatemovies said...
Actually, it's KIRSTEN Dunst.
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1-09-2007 @ 6:19PM
bear said...
as a huuuge Blondie fan i say thee nay. wait a few years and cast alicia cuthbert. daughter n 24. seriously. she's the closost thing we've got to the physical similarities of debbie harry. and sadly she even falls way short.
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1-31-2007 @ 9:37PM
vincent67 said...
Blondie's my absolutely favorite...and Deb did say in interviews that she thought Kirnsten Dunst would be ideal to play her. Agree that she has the same pixie quality and could maybe affect the perfect akward, quirky Debbie moves. But, here's the thing...Kirsten is a very cute girl, but Deborah Harry was shockingly beautiful with a surreal look. It was the combo of this goofy, smart, street, punky, nerdy artschool chick with a one-in-a-billion visage. Honestly, it would be nearly impossible to get that so Kirnsten might be the best alternative.
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