By Fred Topel | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
Most of the Spider-Man actors have lots of special effects to deal with. Except for her inevitable peril, Mary Jane is really just a human drama. In Spider-Man 3 she's getting bad reviews and re-evaluating her acting career, while realizing she can't communicate with her superhero boyfriend.
Kirsten Dunst on Mary Jane's Peril
"On this one, they’re finally together and she is successful in what she’s doing, and he’s been embraced by the city of New York and getting all these accolades," said Kirsten Dunst. "It’s blown his head up a little bit. Slowly, we start to unravel Mary Jane, their relationship—they’re already ignoring things within that—it doesn’t help that he takes on this other darkness that envelopes his character, and brings out all the things he’s not dealing with in his life all his anger really heightens that."
This allowed Dunst to play the actor/girlfriend storyline and not worry about Sandman or the new Green Goblin. "Oh, I just focus on what I’m doing. It’s a surprise when I see the movie because I don’t know what half of it’s going to look like. I saw Thomas [Haden Church] and I said, 'Hey, we’re in the same movie.' We all had our separate lives and stories going on, which makes sense because that’s what it’s like in the film."
Anyone who's been in a relationship should relate to the difficulties of sharing ones' lives when working in difficult fields. It's good to know that even Spider-Man makes mistakes. "There’s a responsibility in a relationship when someone’s doing something that’s really [important], you don’t want to put [your problems] on them that day. So it just kind of builds and builds and builds."
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3
When Peter finally goes dark, it was hard for Dunst to keep a straight face. His "smooth moves" were too dorky. "It was so funny and I had to have a reaction of Peter, 'What’s wrong with you?', but I couldn’t even do it, because when I’d see Tobey, I’d laugh when he was dancing. It’s so ridiculous. And I had to be in a shocked, 'What’s-happened-to-Peter' mode. Meanwhile, he’s doing all these pelvic twists and thrusts. I couldn’t watch him do it anymore."
If Dunst had her way, the characters would just deal with their relationships and Spidey would handle the villains on his own. But they still decide to kidnap MJ at the end. "I suggested she shouldn’t be in peril in the third one."
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