TURKEY: Actress Kirsten Dunst calls Danish director Lars Von Trier's Nazi jokes "inappropriate"

Record ID: 863096

  • Title: TURKEY: Actress Kirsten Dunst calls Danish director Lars Von Trier's Nazi jokes "inappropriate"
  • Date: 29th May 2011
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (MAY 27, 2011) (REUTERS) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) VARIOUS OF KIRSTEN DUNST AT THE OPENING PARTY OF ISTANCOOL FESTIVAL PAN FROM CAMERAMEN TO KIRSTEN DUNST TALKING TO MARCO MUELLER CLOSE OF DUNST AND MUELLER WIDE OF DUNST GETTING ON STAGE FOR A PANEL ON CINEMA AUDIENCE WIDE OF FESTIVAL BANNER PANEL IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS KIRSTEN DUNST, SAYING "So, yeah, reviews are great. 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." PANEL IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS KIRSTEN DUNST, SAYING "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." AUDIENCE WIDE OF PANEL IN PROGRESS
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  • Story Text: Actress Kirsten Dunst called Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier's Nazi statements at the recent Cannes Film Festival "inappropriate" and said she was embarrassed at his words.
    She won the best actress award at the annual film extravaganza in the French Riviera for the Danish director's film "Melancholia".
    "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).
    Dunst flew to Turkey's largest city of Istanbul to attend the opening of Istancool festival.
    During the panel, Dunst also commented on Danish Director Lars von Trier's Hitler and Nazi remarks.
    "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.
    Although the director was expelled from the festival, his end-of-the-world film remained In Competition but eventually lost out on the coveted Palme d'Or award to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life".
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