Kirsten Dunst: 'I'm so tired, I haven't slept through the night in months. I have an eye twitch, too'

The star gives one of her best performances in her new film, The Power of the Dog. That’s no mean feat when you’re sleep-deprived from bringing up two young children The main things Kirsten Dunst wanted out of her trip to Italy were to sleep soundly on the plane and to drink a Bellini upon arrival. She would have considered anything else to be a bonus – and, as it turned out, those bonuses were considerable. Dunst had gone to Italy for Venice Film Festival, where she was premiering The Power of the Dog, a new Netflix movie directed by Jane Campion that features one of the 39-year-old actor’s best performances. She arrived on the last day of August, after months at home raising a newborn baby and a year before that stuck at home because, well, duh. So you can imagine how Dunst felt when she got off the plane, boarded a boat at sunset and sped towards her hotel with the lights of Venice twinkling on the horizon. As she took it all in, Dunst began to well up. A full day of air travel, four sleepless months of child-rearing and the most beautiful city you ever saw…
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