Kirsten Dunst has spoke out in defence of Lars Von Trier after he made controversial comments at the Cannes Film Festival about the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Reporters were left stunned at a Cannes press conference last month when the Danish filmmaker said that due to his German heritage he could “understand” Hitler.
Dunst was sitting next to Von Trier at the conference and said that at the time she was “upset, shocked and angry” that Von Trier had said such things.
She has now offered her support to the director insisting that his words “came out wrong”.
She says, “He says dumb stuff sometimes but not anything I had ever been offended by. It just came out wrong, that’s not Lars at all.
“He was trying to make people laugh by telling the story of his life but it was not the right audience for it. He doesn’t speak English that often, he’s been in Denmark for a long time. It just didn’t translate well.”
Von Trier has since apologised for his comments but the festival organisers still insist that his is banned from the French movie event.
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