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My favorite city right now is:Aus-
tin, Texas. Jesse has a home there,
and I just feel the most happy and
free there. All the food is amazing. I
had the best meal of my life at the
sushi restaurant Uchi.

My favorite hotel is:GoldenEye in
Jamaica. It’s just very chill and feels
like a community hotel. Everyone
becomes friends and you get drunk
with the bartenders. Grace Jones
would just pop over to swim. I went
there with Laura and Kate Mulleavy
after we did our movie “Wood-
shock” together, as a little vacation.

The piece of clothing I’ll never get
rid of is:my Calvin Klein jeans from
eighth grade. I can’t fit into them
anymore, but they are sacred to me.
I keep a lot of clothes, mostly from
my youth—like this perfect Marc Ja-
cobs jean skirt I wore all through
my 20s. Half of my son’s closet is
$12 vintage dresses I can’t let go of,
and the den is filled with fancy
clothes I’ve worn to events.

The best gift for a mom is:aface-
lift. Isn’t that what all moms want?
Or a vacation. I bought my own
mom a house. I’m a good daughter.

These days I’m wearing:alotof

sweats, jeans and whatever sum-

mer dress fits. Right now, I’m either

a slob or on a talk show. I’m into

sweats by Entireworld. They’re so

soft,theyhavepockets,theycome

in really beautiful colors and you

still look like you’re trying when you

wear them. I have some high-

waisted jeans from the Row I like.

They fit really well.

From Sofia Coppola’s closet, I’d

steal:oh my God, everything. She’s

the chicest woman I know. Her fa-

ther gave her a heart diamond

necklace that’s just beautiful—I’d

definitely steal that.

My favorite piece of jewelry at the

moment is:my Fred Leighton en-

gagement ring. It’s the prettiest ring

I’ve ever seen. It’s from the 1800s in

Paris. Jesse [knew to go to] Fred

Leighton. I’ve been working with

them for years.

My beauty regimen includes:ISUN

Ultra Sapphire moisturizing oil for

myface.It’salwaysworkedforme.

I use Heritage Store Rosewater

Mist every day to give me a little

oomph. I like Weleda deodorant and

body moisturizer—that’s pretty sim-

ple stuff. If you use it every other

day, Biologique Recherche Lotion

P50 takes away wrinkles and you

never break out. It’s the best secret.

For shampoo and conditioner, I like

Virtue. It’s very good and it heals

damaged blond hair.

away to Ojai. We have a cedar

soaking tub, and Terremoto does

our landscaping.

I recently binge watched:“Couples

Therapy” on Showtime. It’s just the

dynamics of people talking about

their problems, but the therapist is

very good. Having Jesse in the

house, we also watched [Ken Burns’

16-hour documentary] “Country Mu-

sic”intwodays.Ilovedit.

My favorite visual artist is:Yayoi

Kusama. I first went into her installa-

tion called “Fireflies on the Water” in

2012. It was an emotional experience.
      It reminded me of watching fireflies

at night on the dock in New Jersey

when I was a kid.

I’d love to have dinner with:Abra-

ham Lincoln. And Dolly Parton, Lo-

retta Lynn and Joni Mitchell. It’d be

funny to have Joni Mitchell and

Abraham Lincoln making out.

The book that most shaped me

was:“Ham on Rye” [by Charles Bu-

kowski]. I loved reading Bukowski

when I was 17. A boy gave it to me.

I also love “Franny and Zooey,” es-

pecially the quote about acting for

God.

—Edited from an interview

by Marshall Heyman

20 ODD QUESTIONS

The star of ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’

on comfy clothes, the necklace she’d steal from Sofia

Coppola and Abe Lincoln as a make-out partner

Kirsten Dunst

POINTS OF DISTINCTION

S

HE’S HAD A DECADES-LONGcareer filled with red carpet
moments in couture Chanel and dazzling Rodarte. Her profile
has steadily risen from her fame-securing “Interview with a
Vampire” role, at 12, to a Gap ad, at age 17, turns as Mary
Jane in the pre-Marvel multiverse “Spider-Man” films and the
title role in “Marie Antoinette.” But Kirsten Dunst insists she’s a home-
body. “I don’t leave the fricking house,” she said. “I like being at home.
My favorite thing to do is to eat dinner in bed. It’s so luxurious.”
Cocooning has long been a favored strategy for Ms. Dunst—she used to
get Del Taco regularly delivered to her home in the Los Angeles neighbor-
hood of Toluca Lake—but it suits the 37-year-old actress especially well
these days, given that she’s a fairly new mom. Ennis, her son with her
“Fargo” co-star Jesse Plemons, turned one in May.
At the moment, motherhood also means that Ms. Dunst “really can’t
fit into any of my clothes,” she explained. In turn, her style calculus has
changed. “It’s about what I feel good in,” she said. “I’ve done the fash-
ion-plate thing, and now I can do the comfortable thing.”
Ms. Dunst, who hails from Point Pleasant, N.J., shares her new indif-
ference to glamour with Krystal, the water-park employee on-the-make
that she currently plays on the Showtime television series “On Becoming
a God in Central Florida.” Enormous advertisements around Los Angeles
feature Ms. Dunst’s visage and beaming smile—in braces.
“That’s Krystal on the billboard, not me,” she said. “But I keep getting
texts from my friends about it.” Here, she talks about her repository of
clothing past, her favorite getaways and “Marie Antoinette” director So-
fia Coppola, whom she describes as her “sister who lives in New York.”

All-Day-Long Tripper

Métier London, a newish handbag company, makes elegant catchalls that rival luxe

leather classics but somehow feel more with-it. Take the cunning Roma Shoulder Bag,

that rare workhorse that’s still dainty, light and polished. Here, four ways it

quietly distinguishes itself.—Hendley Badcock

F. MARTIN RAMIN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

NEAT

FREAK

Organize compulsively

with two passport (or

phone)-sized pockets

and a credit (or sub-

way) card sleeve.

TWO WAYS

TO TOW

Come sunset, trade

the workaday leather

strap for a swanky solid

brass chain, modeled

after 1970s ID

bracelets.

Suede Bag,$1,780,Calfskin Bag,$1,880,metierlondon.com

SNEAKILY

SPACIOUS

Seemingly compact,

the bag widens to over

5 inches at the base

for umbrella or

water bottle

stashing.

FLASH-

FREE

Understated design

features a diamond-

shaped lock and a rear

gold-foil logo for

your eyes only.

STYLE & FASHION

As a new mother who prefers to

spend on her kid, I’m nevertheless

tempted to buy myself:these little

gold hoops by Anita Ko I’ve been

wearing to do press recently.

They’re a good size. They’re small,

but they’re thick.

I only really spend money on:my

house. I invested young in furniture

when I had “Spider-Man” money.

We have some eclectic old stuff

and I like BDDW when I go shop-

ping for new things. We redid our

house a year ago. It looks like a Eu-

ropean ranch house in Sweden but

in the 1970s. It feels like we’re on

vacation: just comfy, as if you went

VALLEY GIRLClockwise from top: Kirsten Dunst

photographed at Chili John’s in Burbank, Calif.; go-to

beauty products; small gold Anita Ko hoops; Entireworld

crimson sweatpants; favorite midcentury books.

Inset: the clever chefs at Uchi in Austin.

JASON FRANK ROTHENBERG FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (PORTRAIT); ERICA WILKINS (UCHI); F. MARTIN RAMIN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (6)

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