Kirsten Dunst had to convince Jesse Plemons to play a small role in 'Civil War'.

Kirsten Dunst had to convince her husband Jesse Plemons to take a small role in Civil War

Kirsten Dunst had to convince her husband Jesse Plemons to take a small role in Civil War

The 41-year-old actress is married to fellow Hollywood star Jesse, 36, and plays a renowned war photojournalist in the upcoming drama film but needed an actor to play an unnamed soldier in a pivotal scene of the film.

She told MovieWeb: "It's not a role that he wanted to play. I kind of asked him to play it for us because he's such a brilliant actor!"

The 'Power of the Dog' star workerd with director Alex Garland on the futuristic film - which sees a team of journalists travel across the United States during a multiparty Second American Civil War - and explained that she was immediately interested in working with him after reading the script.

She told ScreenRant: "I've been a fan of Alex Garland's since 'Ex Machina', and he makes so few films, and I've read screenplays of his, but never had the opportunity to work with him, so this was an opportunity. I knew that he was meeting with other people as well. So I read the script immediately, and I Zoomed with him the next day. I just wanted to be a part of whatever he was going to tell.

"I knew that he's someone that takes major swings and, even though he hates the word auteur, he is. He's an auteur. So then when I got the part, I was just like, 'Give me a camera immediately'.

"And then we all rehearsed together, and we watched two films that really meant a lot to all of us, The Marie Colvin documentary, 'Under The Wire', and then 'Come and See', which is a, I think it's a Russian film.. So those were two of some of the things that we watched together in our process."

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