Jamie Dornan & Kirsten Dunst Had To Be Saved Separate Earlier than Marie Antoinette

There are a lot of causes actors may should be saved aside on a set. Generally it is private, however most of the time, it is a method to make sure the actors get extra real reactions when their characters first meet onscreen. Retaining Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan separate on “Mary Queen of Scots” helped the pair create a way more emotionally charged scene once they filmed their onscreen assembly because the doomed Mary (Ronan) and her remoted and chilly cousin Elizabeth (Robbie), however generally actors and their administrators are on the lookout for a really totally different sort of emotional cost. 

In an oral historical past of Sofia Coppola’s underrated historic drama “Marie Antoinette,” actor Jamie Dornan revealed that he and star Kirsten Dunst, who performs the younger German noblewoman who immediately turned the queen of France, did not meet each other till they filmed their first scene collectively. It labored out superbly as a result of Dornan performs the mysterious Swedish rely Axel Fersen, who results in a torrid love affair with the lonely younger queen. There are some critical sparks within the scene, and never simply as a result of each actors are so gifted and lovely.

Director Sofia Coppola, daughter of “The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola and an unimaginable storyteller in her personal proper, apparently needed to maintain Dornan and Dunst separate to be able to actually catch their potential chemistry as authentically as potential. Dornan defined within the oral historical past that Dunst did not even get to see Dornan till the 2 noticed on one other on-camera whereas filming their characters assembly: 

“My first day was the masked ball scene on the Palais Garnier with tons of of extras. Sofia had cleverly organized it in order that Kirsten and I did not meet till we met within the scene. I used to be saved within the shadows till we rolled the cameras in order that was the primary time we ever spoke to one another. It was an unimaginable option to get thrown into the character.”

It is really a testomony to how nice of an actor Dornan is, as a result of not solely was he thrown into the character with out attending to even meet his co-star first, however “Marie Antionette” was additionally his first main film function. That meant that poor Dornan was exceptionally nervous, as he informed Dunst in a Selection Actors on Actors interview in 2022, but it surely all turned out alright in the long run as a result of on this occasion, Coppola knew what she was doing. 

It is unimaginable to suppose that “Marie Antoinette” was the primary huge function for Dornan, who has now turn out to be well-known for roles ranging as extensively as Christian Gray within the “Fifty Shades of Gray” movies to serial killer Paul Spector reverse a detective performed by Gillian Anderson on the BBC 2 sequence “The Fall.” His scenes with Dunst really feel easy, and that is doubtless as a result of Coppola tried to create a party-like ambiance on set to assist the actors get into character because the decadent ruling class. Although “Marie Antoinette” did not precisely kill it on the field workplace, bringing in solely $60 million towards its $40 million finances, the movie has been reassessed through the years and individuals are lastly beginning to come round on simply how nice it truly is. It even helped encourage “The Inexperienced Knight” director David Lowery whereas making his movie, which is actually a stellar achievement all by itself as a result of “The Inexperienced Knight” is phenomenal. 

“Marie Antoinette” is the tragic story of a teen pushed right into a place she did not absolutely perceive, a theme that is repeated a number of occasions in Coppola’s work (together with in her most up-to-date movie, “Priscilla”). No matter Coppola does subsequent, it is prone to be emotionally charged and filled with unimaginable performing, as a result of that is what she does greatest.