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Actress ponders ‘Vampire’ reboot: ‘I’m too old, right?’

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Kirsten Dunst was just 11 years old when she skyrockete­d into stardom as Claudia in “Interview with a Vampire,” but now Dunst says her age is the only thing keeping her from reprising the role in a hypothetic­al reboot.

“I mean I’m too old, right?” she told Variety on Tuesday. “It would be kind of sad, me in a curly wig. No one wants to see that.”

Dunst, 37, was far more excited about another one of her childhood roles getting a reboot: “Little Women.” With Greta Gerwig’s adaptation on the horizon, Dunst said she’s excited to see the film return to theaters once again.

“It’s so nice; each generation I feel like it’s such a classic,” she said. “It’s nice to see someone else’s take on it.”

As for her current role in “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” premiering Sunday on Showtime, Dunst is taking on some more modern themes.

As the braces-wearing housewife Krystal Stubbs, Dunst finds herself in hot water after her husband leaves her with a pile of debt following his involvemen­t in a pyramid scheme. Dunst also sports an eclectic wardrobe of questionab­le fashion choices that includes “a lot of good denim on denim,” leather cutouts and rhinestone­s for the show, which is set in the ’90s.

“The worse it got, the better it was,” Dunst said about her outfits, which only serve to compliment her character’s intense spray tan, long fake nails and eyecatchin­g mouth gear that’s just as uncomforta­ble as one might think.

“I’d just take (the braces) off, and there would be a line of saliva coming off,” Dunst said. “They’re kind of nauseating to wear, so I was just grossing everyone out.”

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