In 1998, Kirsten Dunst starred in the Sofia Coppola-directed drama The Virgin Suicides as Lux Lisbon, one of the troubled teenage daughters of Ronald Lisbon (James Woods). It’s still considered one of her best movies. Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst went on to collaborate on The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette, and The Beguiled.
“We were in Toronto during preproduction and Kirsten was there shooting some teen comedy, I think. At that point, she’d been doing more broad comedies, but I’d seen Interview With the Vampire, and she stands out,” Coppola said about Dunst in an interview with Vogue. “What I love about her is that she looks like this all-American blonde cheerleader but has this depth behind her eyes that contrasts her look. I just clicked with her right away. She just totally gets me and got how I wanted to do it. Back then, she was just a kid, but it was the beginning of our friendship.”
The film premiered on May 19, 1999, at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Dunst was 17 years old at the time, having celebrated her 17th birthday on April 30, 1999. The movie was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, during the summer of 1998 when she was 16.
“When I read the script, I was a little bit nervous because I was making out with all these guys in the script, and I just was overwhelmed and kind of a young 16-year-old,” Dunst told People. “But when I met Sofia, I felt at ease, and I knew that this would be something special.”
“The lights in the house would go off, and then I’d have to run out,” Dunst said about a romantic scene in the movie involving a kiss with Josh Hartnett as Trip Fontaine. “It was such a long-winded thing to get in the car, jump on Josh, his wig would fall off… Then I bit him once, I remember. It was just a mess.... To be part of a movie that would be my favorite movie during that age. You couldn’t ask for more.”
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