ROOFMAN Star Kirsten Dunst Covers TOWN & COUNTRY’s September 2025 Issue

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Kirsten Dunst covers the September issue of TOWN & COUNTRY magazine photographed by Tina Tyrell and styled by Deborah Afshani.

Kirsten Dunst has been an ingenue, a fashion muse, and a leading lady. Now she’s starring in one of the year’s buzziest movies (ROOFMAN), prepping her next Coppola collab, and rewriting the rulebook for being a true Hollywood original.

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On the car she drives: “I drive a Volvo with two car seats in the back,” she says. “It’s our adult car.” What does Jesse [Plemons, her husband] drive? “His family’s old Lexus—with no car seats.”

On filming the upcoming The Entertainment System Is Down, director Ruben Ostlund’s follow-up to Triangle of Sadness: …the film, which takes place almost entirely on the plane, let her “act out the worst parts of my personality. Things that you don’t get to explore in your real life,” as she puts it. “I got to vomit onscreen. I was able to express my rage and also my bitchiness.” How did it feel? “It felt great!”

On comparing being a mother to Final Destination: She invokes the movie “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,” she clarifies, and I laugh. “But I know the concept. That’s how it feels to be a mother at times.”

On age: “Your forties is such a hard decade.”

How she spends her down time: “I’m at home watching Jeopardy with my mom and feeding my kid a hot dog.”

On what she worried about in her twenties: “Nothing!” she shouts, describing Coppola’s Marie Antoinette as her semester abroad. At the wrap party, she says, she and a childhood friend ended up in a fountain in the gardens at Versailles—“with no security. When does that happen?”

On directing: “Maybe when I’m in my sixties. It’s such an all-encompassing job.”

On wanting to be in Minecraft 2: [B]ecause her kids loved the first one and because she’d like to make a pile of cash. “Maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?”

On the impact of The Virgin Suicides: “It’s wonderful that that movie lives on and it means something to young women.”

Written by: Mickey Rapkin
Photography by: Tina Tyrell
Styling by: Deborah Afshani

[Photo Credit: Tina Tyrell for Town & Country Magazine]

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