Cinespia is an organization that screens classic films at iconic locations, and every year they host a slumber part with a double feature. As part of its summer 2024 season, Cinespia invited Kirsten Dunst fans to Hollywood Forever Cemetery to get snuggly and see her two extremely different movies from 2000, Bring It On and The Virgin Suicides. Prior to the screenings, fans received an exciting surprise when the star herself, Dunst, appeared on-stage to introduce the movies.
As reported by Deadline, Dunst crashed the “Kirsten Dunst Slumber Party” this weekend by appearing on-stage and reciting her intro cheer from Bring It On, “I’m Ta-Ta-Ta-Torrance, your captain Torrance! Let’s go, Toros!” She thanked Cinespia and its founder, John Wyatt, before introducing the first film. She added that she was excited about watching the movies, having not seen them herself with an audience since she was a teenager:
Oh my god, you guys, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life. I am so overwhelmed. My friends and family are here, I’m gonna watch with you guys. I haven’t seen any of these movies with an audience since I was a teen. I am so honored.
Check out a video from Cinespia’s Instagram showing Dunst singing along to Bring It On in the audience:
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After beginning her career in her youth with Little Women (1994), she gravitated towards leading roles in teen films. She starred in Bring It On, where she played Torrance Shipman, the captain of the cheer squad who is trying to lead her team to their sixth national championship. The film follows her and the team’s journey to win the championship against the rival school’s captain (Gabrielle Union), with the help of a new girl (Eliza Dushku). Regarded as a cult classic, it was a commercial success, leading to a franchise with six direct-to-video sequels, despite each of them missing out on the original cast.
The next film to screen at Cinespia’s double feature was Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, based on the novel of the same name, which was the first of Coppola’s collaborations with Dunst. A deeply affecting and universally acclaimed movie, the film follows the lives of five young women, the upper-middle class Lisbon sisters, in Detroit during the 1970s. Dunst plays the eldest sister, Lux Lisbon. Following this, Dunst portrayed Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, which shot her even further into stardom.
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Dunst and Coppola later collaborated on Marie Antoinette (2006) and The Beguiled (2017). Other popular roles by Dunst include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Melancholia (2011), The Two Faces of January (2014), Hidden Figures (2017) and The Power of the Dog (2021), which earned her an Academy Award nomination. A four-time Golden Globe nominee, Dunst’s most recent role was the lead in Civil War, a dystopian thriller regarded as a “cautionary tale”, released earlier in 2024; it became the biggest box office opening for an A24 film to date.
Cinespia’s summer catalog of movie screenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetery continues throughout the next few weekends with The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Shining, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Chicago. The final summer screening, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, will be on Saturday, September 14, as a tribute to the late Paul Reubens. You can find screenings and events around the country at Cinespia.
