Kirsten Dunst was spotted enjoying a smoke break outside a cafe in Los Angeles on Monday.
The Interview with the Vampire star, 43, cut a casual figure as she puffed on a cigarette while out with a friend.
The actress — who revealed that her son had a terrifying health scare in a candid new interview on Wednesday — sported a striped button-up blouse tucked into a pair of dark jeans with a black belt.
Her casually chic look was completed with white sandals and a pair of black sunglasses.
The Academy Award nominee wore her shoulder-length blonde hair down and parted on the side.
It comes after the indie cinema icon — who’s worked with influential directors like Sofia Coppola and Lars von Trier — expressed her desire to make a movie where she ‘doesn’t lose money.’
Kirsten Dunst, 43, was spotted enjoying a smoke break outside a cafe in Los Angeles on Monday
Dunst even floated the idea of her joining the cast of Minecraft 2, after A Minecraft Movie — based on the popular video game — dominated the box office with $955 million worldwide.
‘Maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?’ she told Town & Country in an interview published on Wednesday.
A film like Minecraft 2 would be quite a departure for the star, who has usually opted for arthouse favorites over mainstream films.
Even as an Oscar-nominated actress who has starred in countless mainstream movies, she remains beloved by fans for her work in indie films like The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Melancholia (2011).
However, Dunst’s successful career does include more commercial roles like The Spider-Man Trilogy (2002-2007), Bring It On (2000) and Jumanji (1995).
Elsewhere in the new interview Dunst revealed that her young son James had a ‘frightening’ health scare while she was filming in Budapest earlier this year.
The actress, who shares James, four, and Ennis, seven, with husband Jesse Plemons, 37, moved abroad for six months with her family to film The Entertainment System is Down – but ‘very quickly’ her youngest child became seriously ill.
Dunst told Town & Country the terrifying time was like ‘Final Destination, where you’re imagining all the things that could go wrong, worst case scenarios happening to your child.
‘I have never seen that movie. But I know the concept. That’s how it feels to be a mother at times.’
The Interview with the Vampire star cut a casual figure as she puffed on a cigarette while out with a friend
The actress sported a striped button-up blouse tucked into a pair of dark jeans with a black belt
Her casually chic look was completed with white sandals and a pair of black sunglasses
On Wednesday, Dunst shared in a new interview that she’d like to make a movie where she ‘doesn’t lose money’, and floated the idea of joining the cast of Minecraft 2; Still from A Minecraft Movie
Even as an Oscar-nominated actress who has starred in countless mainstream movies, she remains beloved by fans for her work in indie films like The Virgin Suicides; Seen in a 1999 still
She has also starred in Danish director Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011)
Plemons and their sons had joined her in Budapest in January, with the plan for them to stay with Dunst for the entire filming duration and Ennis enrolled in school before James fell ill.
Plemons later took their sons back to their ‘extended support system’ in Los Angeles while Dunst remained abroad – bar an April visit – to finish the film.
While Dunst wouldn’t be drawn on James’ specific health condition, she stressed that he is doing fine now.
She said the health scare ‘brought us together as a family in such a deeper way’ and revealed they will soon holiday in the Bahamas as they promised to take James ‘anywhere he wanted to go.’
The star previously opened up about James on Jimmy Kimmel Live in April 2024, saying: ‘He’s almost three and when he’s bad we call him Jimmy. He’s out of control.
‘We actually call him baby Chris Farley because of the way he walks around and he’s just hilarious. He’s a crazy little dude.’
Dunst and Plemons got together after starring in Fargo Season 2 in 2016, getting engaged in 2017.
They married in 2022 in a secret ceremony in Jamaica.
In her latest interview Dunst also revealed that her young son James, four — whom she shares with husband Jesse Plemons, 37 — had a ‘frightening’ health scare while she was filming in Budapest earlier this year; Dunst and Plemons seen in July
‘We fell in love creatively first,’ Dunst gushed to the LA Times in 2021.
‘He was like a creative soul mate to me and the way we both work. On Fargo, I knew after two weeks.
‘I didn’t remember saying this, but one of my best friends told me that I said to her that “I will know this man for the rest of my life. I just know it.”
‘Just because I felt such an immediate connection.’
