Kirsten Dunst took a break from acting after being offered only 'sad mom' roles

Hollywood actress Kirsten Dunst is done with playing sad mom roles. After years of doing excellentwork as an actor, Dunst finally earned her first Academy Award nomination for her performance in 2021's The Power of the Dog.

In the Jane Campion movie, Dunst played the roles of a wife and mother. The actress may have garnered rave reviews for her performance in the movie, but what made her unhappy is the type ofroles that started coming up after her critically acclaimed performance in The Power of the Dog.

In her recent interview with Marie Claire, the 41-year-old actress reflected on her two-year-long break after Oscar nomination, saying, "There's definitely less good roles for women my age."

“I haven’t worked in two years,” the Marie Antoinette actress said as she talked about being stereotyped. “Every role I was being offered was the sad mom.”

Dunst, who is a mother of two children, James (2) and Ennis (5), said, "To be honest, that's been hard for me...because I need to feed myself. The hardest thing is being a mom and...not feeling like, I have nothing for myself. That's every mother—not just me."

Breaking her two-year hiatus, Kirsten will be next seen in director Alex Garland'sCivil War. In the upcoming film, Dunst plays the role of Lee Smith, a photojournalist who is covering the American war zone, risking her life.

Talking about the fourthcoming drama, Dunst said it was something fresh that was offered to her.

"When I read the script, I thought, I've never done anything like this," Dunst says before adding for the director, "I just love that he's someone who pushes boundaries."