Kirsten Dunst Got Real About The Pay Disparity Between Her And Tobey Maguire For "Spider-Man"

"I didn't even think about it."

You know Kirsten Dunst from so many things — including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, in which she played M.J. for all three movies.

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Some would argue that her performance is as memorable as Maguire's Spidey — but at the time of the first film, it sounds like she wasn't paid enough to reflect that.

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In an interview with The Independent, Dunst revealed that the pay disparity between her and Maguire was "very extreme."

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“The pay disparity between me and Spider-Man was very extreme," she said, while noting that "I didn’t even think about it."

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But! She also noted that, when it came around to Spider-Man 2, her billing in the franchise was elevated to featuring her on the poster alongside the ol' web-slinger. "You know who was on the cover of the second Spider-Man poster? Spider-Man and ME.”

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This isn't the first time Dunst has mentioned getting paid less than her male costars in Spider-Man. In 2017, she broached the issue in an interview with Variety.

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"Because I was young, I thought, 'Oh wow, I'm getting paid a lot of money for the Spider-Man movies,'" she said. "But definitely the men were getting paid more."

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Read Dunst's entire interview with The Independent here.