{"id":1975366,"date":"2025-08-22T22:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1975366"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:50:49","slug":"kirsten-dunst-clears-up-common-mispronunciation-of-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kirsten-dunst-clears-up-common-mispronunciation-of-her-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Dunst Clears Up Common Mispronunciation Of Her Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirsten Dunst just corrected your pronunciation of her name. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 1989, Dunst has been steadily captivating audiences with every role. But <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@townandcountrymagazine\/video\/7540637593264770334\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"in a Wednesday interview\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68a89cc4e4b0371e6a9aced4\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@townandcountrymagazine\/video\/7540637593264770334\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">in a Wednesday interview<\/a> with Town &amp; Country, the actor was asked how to properly say her name \u2014 and revealed that people often fumble it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI mean, everyone messes up my name, so I give up,\u201d she admitted. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the frequent mispronunciations, Dunst said she doesn\u2019t hold it against anyone. She shared that she answers to a full squad of names, from \u201cKristen\u201d to various versions of \u201cKirsten,\u201d but isn\u2019t in the business of \u201cblaming people.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The actor went on to share a behind-the-scenes anecdote from across the pond, where they also get it wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn England, they don\u2019t really say my name right,\u201d she said. \u201cOn the last set, everyone was saying my name wrong, but there were Swedish people, people from Hungary. You just give up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the \u201cBring It On\u201d actor was asked how to pronounce her name, she revealed: \u201cKyeer-sten.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The actor also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@townandcountrymagazine\/video\/7540637355560946975\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"shared\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68a89cc4e4b0371e6a9aced4\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@townandcountrymagazine\/video\/7540637355560946975\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">shared<\/a> that she\u2019d rather attend dinner than watch herself in her own films.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI often do the [red] carpet, and then go to dinner while everyone\u2019s watching the movie, and then come back,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Dunst just corrected your pronunciation of her name. Since 1989, Dunst has been steadily captivating audiences with every role. But in a Wednesday interview with Town &amp; Country, the actor was asked how to properly say her name \u2014 and revealed that people often fumble it. \u201cI mean, everyone messes up my name, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1975367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[350306],"class_list":["post-1975366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-kirsten-dunst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kirsten-Dunst-Clears-Up-Common-Mispronunciation-Of-Her-Name.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}