Kirsten Dunst 'okay' with audience booing

Oct 6, 2006, 13:07 GMT

Kirsten Dunst © Scott Alan / Photorazzi

Kirsten Dunst understands why fans booed her new movie 'Marie Antoinette'.

The 'Spider-Man' actress insists she wasn't offended when the movie got a lukewarm response when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year because fans and critics were entitled to be upset.

She revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly: "I didn't take it to heart. How would we feel about the French doing a movie about George Washington with French actors?"

Kirsten, 24, also said she found making the film one of the hardest experiences of her life.

The actress, who plays the tragic 18th century French queen in the movie, added: "Sometimes I felt really isolated because it was such a lonely part to play. I didn't really interact with that many people… I couldn't really rely on other people to get it out of me. I was really thankful when Jason Schwartzman, who plays Louis XVI, was on set because then I could unload a little bit on him."

Meanwhile, historians have attacked the film for Kirsten's "frightful" and sexually charged interpretation of Antoinette.

Michele Lorin, the president of the Marie Antoinette Association, fumed: "I've seen the trailer for the film on the internet. It is a fright.

"We've spent years trying to convince people that the queen was not just a libertine who told the starving to eat cake."

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