Source: eonline.com

Kirsten Dunst is hard at work shooting her next movie, All Good Things, on New York’s Upper West Side.

But she’s decided to focus on something else today—opening up to dispel rumors and tabloid reports that she sought help earlier this year at Cirque Lodge treatment center in Utah due to alcoholism and substance abuse.

“I didn’t go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse,” Dunst tells me exclusively during a lunch break on All Good Things. “I went there for depression.”

The 26-year-old Hollywood veteran makes a point of explaining that while she consulted doctors along with family and friends about treatment, it was ultimately her decision to make.

“It was a good six months before I decided to go away,” Dunst says. “I was struggling, and I had the opportunity to go somewhere and take care of myself. I was fortunate to have the resources to do it. My friends and family thought it was a good idea, too. But I didn’t know where to go. My doctor recommended Cirque Lodge.”

Dunst says she’s decided to go public with her depression and treatment because she’s not the only one who finds herself facing the ongoing—and often nasty—speculation in the press and elsewhere.

Most recently, erroneous reports alleged she was fired as the face of Miu Miu because of her personal problems, when in fact Dunst’s two-year work with the fashion house was never intended to go any further than it did.

“There’s been a lot of misrepresentation about what is going on in my life, and it’s been very painful for my friends and family,” she says. “Everyone feels like they have to defend me. They hear the rumors, and it puts them in a defensive position. Now that I’m feeling stronger, I was prepared to say something.”

While naysayers out there may groan that a young, wealthy Hollywood starlet should have nothing to be depressed about, Dunst says mental illness doesn’t know any such boundaries. “We’re all in the same boat together,” she opines. “Depression is pretty serious and should not be gossiped about.”

Hopefully, the very personal revelation will encourage people to stop speculating and move on—while allowing Dunst to focus on making her next movie. And speaking of that project, Dunst also scoffs at claims that there’s an on-set romance brewing between her and her hunky All Good Things costar. “I am not,” she says with a laugh, “dating Ryan Gosling!”

Linda Davies, a resident and director of local theater productions, said that “it was very exciting to see all the vehicles around” Lillinonah Drive last week as the cast and crew for “All Good Things,” a murder mystery, taped scenes in a local home for three days.

“They were looking for a movie that would be set in the 1970s, so they chose a house that would fit that,” Mrs. Davies said of the decision to film the movie, which is scheduled to be released next year. It features established actors Ryan Gosling, who was nominated last year for an Academy Award for best actor for his role in “Half Nelson” (2006) and had made his popular mark on the public earlier as the romantic male lead in “The Notebook” (2004), and Kirsten Dunst, a Golden Globe nominee, whose screen credits include the female lead in the popular “Spider Man” series.

“They were looking for a lakefront house, and I said that they could use it,” said the owner of the Brookfield home where some of the filming has taken place, who requested anonymity.
Variety.com has reported that the plot is about “a Gotham real estate dynasty in the 1980s” and said that the movie, which began filming in New York and Connecticut this month, is budgeted for about $20 million.

Scott Ferlisi, the locations manager for the project, declined comment at this time regarding the production of the movie, which reportedly has moved to another part of Connecticut but will return to Lillinonah Drive next month.

“There were vehicles everywhere on the street,” Mrs. Davies said of last week’s filming. “A lot of the kids came down after school.” “Everyone was very inquisitive,” said Linda Volz, whose driveway and garage were used to house the food court for the cast and crew.”They shooed away the people who came into the area on the second day,” she said. “They were not happy about anyone taking pictures.”
“However, the people connected with the movie were very respectful toward us in making the arrangements for the food court,” she said regarding the arrangements to use part of her family’s property.

The movie is being directed by Andrew Jarecki, who has done several documentaries, including “Capturing the Friedmans.” He wrote the screen play for “All Good Things” with Marcus Hinchey, according to IMBD, the Internet Movie Database.

Variety.com reported that Mr. Gosling, 27, began his career in the entertainment business as a singer. The Canadian actor began his acting career in the revival of “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1990s. He appeared in those productions with Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez.

IBDB stated that his breakthrough came in his powerful performance in 2001 as a Jewish neo-Nazi in the based-on-fact “The Believer.” His later movies included “Murder By Numbers” (2002), with Sandra Bullock; “Fracture” (2007), with Anthony Hopkins; and “Lars and the Reel Girl” (2007), for which he won a Satellite Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor.

Variety.com stated that “Half Nelson” marked Mr. Gosling “as a serious actor on the rise.” He “gave a stellar performance as an idealistic and inspirational inner-city teacher who engages in an after school drug habit which is discovered by a troubled student, leading to an unexpected friendship that threatens to either undo them both or bring about the change they both desperately need,” stated the Web site.

Ms. Dunst, 26, was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in “Interview With The Vampire.”
According to Variety.com, the New Jersey native has been acting since 1989, including her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man series,” as well as prominent roles in “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), director Sophia Coppola’s acclaimed first movie, and “Marie Antoinette” (2006), with the same director.
As a teen-ager she became “one of the most popular actresses of the MTV generation, and she accepted an offer to host the MTV Movie Awards in 2001 alongside Jimmy Fallon,” according to the Web site.

It also stated: “Audiences had seen few actresses not only survive the transition from child actor to teen to adult actor, but even less who moved so easily between genres and pleased such a wide range of theatergoers.”

Regarding her performance in “Interview with the Vampire,” Variety.com stated: “Dunst’s remarkably mature performance opposite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise earned nearly universal raves and a Golden Globe nomination.”

• Fifteen and Pregnant x 1
• Get Over It x 5
• Interview with the Vampire x 10
• Jumanji x 6
• Levity x 4
• Small Soldiers x 2
• The Cat’s Meow x 16
• Gun x 1
• The Crow: Salvation x 1
• Strike! x 1

Spider-Man

• On Set x 2
• Stills x 9

Spider-Man 2

• On Set x 1
• Stills x 5

Spider-Man 3

• Promo added 1
• Stills added 5
• On Set [06.18.06] x 14

• Norman Ng (2002) x 13
• Richard Phibbs (2003) x 14
• Unknown - The Times Magazine (2006) x 9

• Stills & Promos x 35
• Posters x 1
• Screen Caps x 875
• Screen Caps: Behind The Scenes x 258
• Screen Caps: Photo Gallery x 11

Appearances

• 10.05.07 Chanel Fashion Show, Paris x 23

Scans

• French Elle: January 2007 x 6
• French Elle: April 2007 x 5

Elizabethtown

• On Set added 29

American designer Erin Fetherston has enlisted Hollywood beauties Kirsten Dunst and Zooey Deschanel to star in her latest fashion film, which premieres at Los Angeles Fashion Week in March. According to Nylon magazine, the movie, which debuts at the West Hollywood hotspot Villa, showcases Ms Fetherston’s latest Shakespearean-inspired collection, described by the designer as: “Representations of Juliet throughout pop culture”. Her upcoming short, which remains nameless for the time being, will be the third fashion film she has collaborated on with childhood friend Dunst.

Well now that Chloe Sevigny and Natalie Portman have their own clothing projects, it’s about time Kirsten gets in the game, isn’t it?

And so, the actress will debut her latest line - a collaboration with the cashmere giants Lutz + Patmos - on Sunday, February 3, at the New Museum. DJ Michel Gaubert, who does all the music for Karl Lagerfeld, will helm the decks.

Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling will star in the indie “All Good Things.” Described in Variety as a “period love story/ murder mystery,” the film will mark the narrative directing debut of Andrew Jarecki (”Capturing the Friedmans”). Set in the ’80s, the screenplay by Jarecki, Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey focuses on a New York real estate heir (Gosling) who falls for a girl (Dunst) from the wrong side of the tracks. When she disappears, a vast conspiracy unravels and folks start turning up dead. Production will begin in April with Michael London’s Groundswell Prods. producing.