Actress Kirsten Dunst has said she was embarrassed by Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier’s Hitler and Nazi remarks at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
‘Yeah, it was a very emotional week. What happened with Lars, you know, now I know him in a very intimate way and It was very inappropriate what he said. You cannot joke about things like that and so I was very embarrassed for him but he is my friend and I care for him and we worked very intimately together and I could never have done the work I did without someone, a director, like him,’ she said.
The ‘melancholia’ director was expelled from the festival, but his end-of-the-world film remained in competition. It eventually lost out to the coveted Palme d’Or award to Terrence Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’. Dunst won the best actress award at the annual film extravaganza in the French Riviera.
She flew to Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul to attend the opening of Istancool festival.
‘It’s amazing to be honoured with awards and you know I have worked for 20 years and I am 29. So for me this was the biggest thing that has happened to me in terms of that,’ Dunst told a panel in Istanbul on Friday (May 27).
via Sky News: Kirsten Dunst embarrassed by nazi remark.