Interesting things come out in interviews sometimes. Just recently, Kiki Dunst was being grilled by someone, and the subject of letting one's children become actors came up. And this is what Kiki had to say about her own experiences in that area:
I'd never put any daughter of mine through acting because, while I loved acting and was happy working as a child, looking back, my happiness always came from pleasing other people - always. It came from satisfying the director or my mother or my acting coach, not from pleasing myself. ... My mother told me that when I was born she just knew that I was destined to be an actress. ... It's not a natural way to grow up, and acting was never a dream for me. It was the only thing I knew - it was just my life. ... For a while there was a time when I had a lot of anger towards my mother because of what she did to me. Now I understand what kind of woman she is - she always had the best intentions.
Holy shit - Kiki Dunst is consumed with hatred for her mother. I don't care about that last part where she claims she understands her mom now either - that's obviously a bunch of la-dee-da bullshit. Denial-city. Kiki, in truth, wants to strangle the life right out of her mother, the woman responsible for turning her into the miserable wretch she is now. What insights into Kiki we've gained from this interview. Particularly this part:
...my happiness always came from pleasing other people - always. It came from satisfying the director or my mother or my acting coach, not from pleasing myself...
This explains everything about Kiki's love-life as far as I'm concerned. The fact that she can't seem to hold onto a man for more than two weeks at a time. The fact that every time she meets someone like Johnny Borrell, it's all, "Kiki's so madly in love and she's moving to England to live with him and blah blah..." Kiki's need to be what she thinks these people want her to be - that's her whole problem. She can't be herself, because there is no "herself" - she's been acting for so long that she doesn't know how to be real anymore. And guys like Borrell probably sense her desperation, and are turned on by it at first, but ultimately find it smothering. Poor Kiki - I almost feel sorry for her now. Having a wretched monster for a mommy, and now having to spend the rest of her life never being able to live up to what she thinks people expect of her. It's a miracle this bitch hasn't slit her wrists yet.
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