KIRSTEN DUNST

The Spider-Man and Fargo star, 37, headlines Showtime’s dark-comedy series On Becoming a God

in Central Florida (Aug. 25). She stars as Krystal Stubbs, a minimum-wage water park worker who schemes her way to the top of a cultish, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme—the same one that ruined her family and drained her finances.

What attracted you to the series? When I read this, I loved the role so much and I knew that it would be fun. If I were on a show crying every day, that would be exhausting. But I get to be manipulative, crazy and funny. This girl is a badass. I get to do things in this that I’m like, “What? All right, here we go!”

Tell us about Krystal. This show is about that struggle of being a single mom: doing anything you can to support your child and to keep the house. She’s a fighter. She will do anything to make that work. In the course of that, she bulldozes people as she fights to get what she wants.

You were part of the original Spider-Man film franchise. How rewarding is it to see it carried on now with new actors? I just feel pride that it keeps going because ours was good enough to keep the whole thing alive. Spider-Man’s such a beloved character, it’ll probably have reincarnations for the rest of my life. It’d be cool if they’d do another Spider-Man film with us. I would love that.

You and your fiancé, Jesse Plemons [The Post, Black Mirror], met while you were shooting Fargo. Do you

have plans to work together again? We want to, for sure. We’re definitely looking. If something comes to us, great. But we have ideas as well.

Does her fiancé do baby duty with their toddler, Ennis? Go to Parade.com/dunst to find out.

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