At tonight’s Elizabethtown screening at the London Film Festival, Kirsten Dunst talked exclusively to Empire about her latest project: a biopic of American relief worker Marla Ruzicka as reported here earlier in the week.
Dunst confirmed the film was still in its early stages, and explained why she had become involved in telling Ruzicka’s remarkable story.
“We don’t have a director yet, just our writer and a producer. Mark Blatt (producer) who bought the rights to her story came to me and I watched some footage of (Ruzicka) and read some articles. She just seemed like such a – I mean, her family, her situation, her personal life were all so interesting to me, how she got started.
”Just the way that she manipulated soldiers and people to get what she needed and how kind she was to everybody. That she was so full of life and threw prom parties in Afghanistan – just the craziest things – and was so moving and persistent and courageous.”