‘The Power Of The Dog’s Kirsten Dunst On Her SAG Nomination

As she woke up this morning, Kirsten Dunst was thrilled to learn that she’d received a SAG nomination. “To be nominated by your fellow actors, is just the greatest feeling,”Dunst. “I just wish we could be together to celebrate. That’s the only thing I hope, that I get to see everyone and we get to be together and have some fun.”

Jane Campion’s adaptation of the Thomas Savage novel The Power of the Dog Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of Phil Burbank, Montana rancher. Phil and George run a ranch together. George’s decision to marry Rose (Kirsten Dust) and have her son Peter (Kodi McPhee) creates turmoil and Phil tries to impose his will on Rose.

Rose is still being tortured by Phil, so she turns to drinking to escape the pain. “There was a very specific moment in the film where I do take my first drink,”Dunst “and it wasn’t written in the story. At one point I told Jane [Campion] how important I thought it was to have that moment where she decides to drink, because it’s such a big deal that she hates alcohol so much at first, but it just becomes her way to cope.”

Dunst isn’t the only star of The Power of the DogBenedict Cumberbatch was nominated today. Kodi Smit McPhee received a SAG nomination. Dunst is proud to be a mother-son duo. “Kodi and I hit it off right away. I felt a connection with him, so it wasn’t difficult for me to embrace him as my son.”Smit-McPhee and she decided on their characters “shared a little secret, that he had some involvement with his dad’s, my husband’s, death. So I think that gave an extra layer of mystery into our relationship, and I think that that helped us form an extra bond.”

While she was excited to be nominated for an Oscar, nothing can compare with how thrilled she was to work alongside Jane Campion. “I remember after she offered me to role,”Dunst “I ran to my mom, who was helping out with the children or something like that, and I screamed like I won the fricking lottery. She was one of my all time dream directors, and the performances in her films have inspired me as an actress throughout my career.”

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