Kirsten Dunst says she still gets a Christmas cake every year from her Interview with the Vampire co-star Tom Cruise, 30 years after starring together in the gothic horror film.
Cruise, 61, is famous for sending a delicious white chocolate coconut cake to his A-list friends during the holiday season.
“I still get that pie,” Dunst, 41, said. Entertainment tonight Thursday while promoting his new movie Civil War.
She also revealed that her husband Jesse Plemons, who starred alongside Cruise in 2017’s American Made, also gets a cake.
“Jesse keeps the pies, so we double our pies.”
Kirsten Dunst says she still gets a Christmas cake every year from her Interview with the Vampire co-star Tom Cruise, 30 years after starring together in the gothic horror film; seen in march
The duo appeared in the gothic horror film 30 years ago.
Cruise has the holiday cakes made and delivered by Doan’s Bakery, a family-owned bakery in Woodland Hills, California.
He’s reportedly sending the Christmas treats to a long list of famous friends, including former co-stars like Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and War Of The Worlds’ Dakota Fanning.
Jon Hamm, Graham Norton, Rosie O’Donnell and Angela Bassett also feature on Cruise’s coveted “pie list.”
Dunst was 11 when she played Claudia, a young vampire who is forced to grow up in a boy’s body, alongside Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas and Thandiwe Newton in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire. prominent role.
Adapted from author Anne Rice’s 1976 novel, Interview with the Vampire was a box office hit upon its release on Veterans Day in November 1994.
The film, directed by Neil Jordan, earned a worldwide gross of $224 million, on an estimated budget of $60 million.
During Thursday’s sit-down with ET, Dunst said she fondly remembers filming that movie.
‘When I think back, I have good memories. It was a production like nothing I have experienced to this day. The costumes and the sets. “It changed the course of my life,” Dunst explained.
Cruise, 61, is famous for sending a delicious white chocolate coconut cake to his A-list friends every holiday season; seen in 2023
She also revealed that her husband Jesse Plemons, who starred alongside Cruise in 2017’s American Made, also gets a cake; the couple seen on April 2
He has made several references to his time filming Interview with the Vampire, as well as his working relationships with Cruise and Pitt.
Last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Marie Antoinette star revealed that Cruise took care of her as a child actress and how he “put a Christmas tree in my dressing room.”
Cruise, who played immortal vampire Lestat de Lioncourt in the film, surprised Kirsten with the wonderful Christmas gift while filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
Dunst gushed about Pitt in a recent interview with The Telegraph.
She told the outlet that the Oscar winner “was like an older brother” during filming, despite her prior criticism of a “disgusting” scene in which the significantly older star, who was 30 when she accepted the lead role , was enigmatic. The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac kisses Dunst, who was 11 years old at the time.
Dunst recalled being “treated like a princess” by her male co-stars, most notably Pitt.
‘Yes, it was practically an all-male group, but everyone was very gentle and kind, and nothing seemed strange. “Brad was like a big brother to me.”
speaking to Eastern Time Shortly after the film’s release in 1994, Dunst admitted that she “hated [the Pitt kiss] so much’ because it was ‘like kissing your brother’.
Dunst, who was 12 at the time, acknowledged that it was “strange” for her to kiss “an older boy” on the lips.
That same year, he revisited the controversial scene while promoting Little Women with co-star Samantha Mathis, telling interviewers, “I love Brad, he’s so nice… it was like he was uncomfortable.”
Dunst was 11 when she played ‘Claudia’ alongside Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas and Thandiwe Newton in Interview with the Vampire in 1994. It was her breakout role.
During her conversation with ET, the mother of two said she fondly remembers filming that movie.
‘I mean, I’m 12 years old. And he’s like 31, and it’s like he’s a man. So why would she enjoy kissing him?
Mathis, who was 24 at the time, chimed in to admit that he wouldn’t turn down a kiss with the heartthrob, adding, “Maybe you don’t like kissing guys yet, so I can relate.”
In response to the joke, an unimpressed Dunst replied: “Well, especially since Brad is 31. I mean, he’s not exactly a kid.”
During a later appearance in Conan in 2014, He added: ‘I thought it was disgusting. He was 11, it would have been weird if he said, “This is amazing.”
In 2021 she said vanity fair that kissing Pitt and biting the neck of a co-star who was apparently sweating profusely at the time were her least favorite memories from filming.
“That was the worst thing I ever did and obviously having to kiss Brad Pitt at that moment,” she said.
“I was a little girl and he was like a brother to me and it was very strange even though it was a kiss. I didn’t like him very much.