Kirsten Dunst is well aware of the power of a name. But even still, the Bring It On star isn’t bothered when people mispronounce hers – something they’ve apparently been doing for years.
“I mean, everyone messes up my name, so I give up,” Kirsten shared with Town & Country in an Aug. 20 TikTok. “I don’t care.”
The 43-year-old confessed that she’ll answer to anything from criss-ten to ker-stin to keer-sten—with the latter being how she actually pronounces it. “I don’t blame people,” she explained. “Like in England, they don’t really say my name right.”
But it’s not just those in the United Kingdom who have issues with the pronunciation. “The last set, everyone was saying my name wrong,” the Power of the Dog star recalled. “There was like Swedish people and people from Hungary. You just give up.”
But she clarified the one and only way to correctly say her name is “Keer-sten.” “But again, who cares?” she quipped. “It’s fine.”
Besides, the Oscar nominee – who shares kids Ennis, 7, and James, 4, with husband Jesse Plemons – was preoccupied with more important concerns while on set, namely taking care of her son James when he got sick while she was filming The Entertainment System Is Down in Budapest earlier this year.
She and Jesse had originally planned for the whole family to stay in Hungary for the shoot, but told Town & Country it took an “extremely frightening” turn when James suddenly fell ill, which meant Jesse and the boys came back to Los Angeles. While she did not share details of James’ diagnosis, she did confirm that “everyone is fine now,” and that they will soon be spending time together in the Bahamas after he requested a trip “to a beach where my sandcastle won’t wash away.”
Though James and Ennis don’t have to worry about calling Kirsten anything other than mom, keep reading for more celebrity names you’re probably saying wrong.
source: Yahoo
