Kirsten Dunst recalls feeling “nervous” when she was 22 years old and working on the film Marie Antoinette.

During Variety’s Actors on Actors discussion, the “Power of the Dog” Oscar front-runner reconnected with “Marie Antoinette” co-star Jamie Dornan to discuss the 2006 movie.

Dunst confessed that she felt “overwhelmed” when shooting intimate moments with director Sofia Coppola.

In the film, Antoinette, portrayed by Dunst, has a s=xual connection with Swedish count Axel von Fersen, played by Dornan.

In an interview with Variety from 2006, actor Jamie Dornan spoke about the stress he had while making the movie since it was his first time acting.

The bare moments in particular made Dunst “nervous” during the whole film’s development.

The actress appeared in a passionate love scene and a moment in which she was unclothed. But Dunst also admitted to Dornan that one specific scene that gave her the creeps was cut from the final product.

Dunst and Rose Byrne in 2006’s “Marie Antoinette.”
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“All our stuff was like making out, and I’m not comfortable with that. It’s never comfortable, ever,” the actress said.

“I think my first time I even showed my bre-sts was with Sofia (Coppola). She never used the take, and I don’t even think you were there. I felt overwhelmed too,” she told Dornan.

“That’s crazy to know,” the “Fifty Shades of Grey” actor retorted. “I mean, you handled it well. I thought you were in control of everything. I remember we had to improvise, and Sofia did this thing of how we didn’t really meet until we met in the scene. Isn’t that right?”

Dunst said, “Oh yeah, which is sometimes a little bit more awkward.”

Since Jesse Plemons, Dunst’s real-life husband, plays her on-screen love interest in “The Power of the Dog,” shooting romantic moments for that movie proved to be a unique experience.

Of working with Plemons, Dunst previously told IndieWire, “We fell in love as creative friends first. We had a creative connection that bonded us. There was a lot of freedom whenever we did scenes together. It’s like a magic, magical feeling.”

Dunst continued, “Jesse and I talked about directing together because we trust each other. We’re a good balance with each other.”

Dunst starred as the title character of Sofia Coppola’s colorful historical drama.
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For “The Power of the Dog,” Dunst worked with female filmmaker Jane Campion, as she had done for “Marie Antoinette.”

Dunst said, “Surprisingly, Jane is a very good actress. Whenever we were in rehearsal, she acted so well. And sometimes behind the camera, when I wasn’t onscreen I’d watch her, and she’d mouth the lines — almost like a little stage mother-y. It’s so sweet, though; she’s so into it. I’m sure she writes her script a little like that. She must.”

During a video interview with Netflix in December, Dunst recalled how Coppola helped her with her self-esteem while other producers wanted her to fix her teeth.

She explained that when she filmed “The Virgin Suicides” in 1999, “It was the first time I was seen as a beautiful woman, and [to] have it be a female who gave me that … it was very empowering for me at that age in terms of the way I felt about myself and my beauty.”

“That’s a weird age,” Dunst, who was 16 when she shot the drama, continued. “[Coppola] just gave me a lot of confidence that I carried throughout my career in terms of producers wanting to fix my teeth … People just trying to change and manipulate young actresses in a way to make them the same.”

“She made me feel beautiful for who I was, and that was a very pivotal time in my life to feel that way and to be given that,” Dunst said in his conclusion.

Dunst played Rose, a widow whose life is irrevocably altered when she and her kid move in with her new husband on a ranch co-owned by her tyrannical brother-in-law, in Netflix’s “The Power Of The Dog.”