Kirsten Dunst: New film Civil War is a warning to not take democracy for granted

The Spider-Man star, 41, performs a photojournalist in Civil Conflict, which is about in a dystopian close to future the place the nation has turn out to be a dictatorship beneath a president in his third time period.

Written and directed by British writer Alex Garland, the movie follows a gaggle of military-embedded journalists as they race towards time to succeed in Washington DC earlier than insurgent factions descend upon the White Home.

Requested if she feared this sort of story might turn out to be a actuality, Dunst instructed the PA information company: “There’s discourse all around the world, so it felt actual the best way we have been making the movie.

“That is like ‘don’t take your democracy as a right’ and actually about humanity and seeing one another as individuals reasonably than taking these excessive positions behind your cellphone or computer systems.

“I believe that this can be a warning, in a manner, and an anti-war movie, for me.”

Garland mentioned he needed to place journalists on the centre of the movie as a result of he needed to make them the “heroes”.

He added: “I felt journalists have been beneath assault in a very sophisticated manner for fairly a very long time and other people, in some ways, don’t belief them anymore.

“However there are journalists on the market doing extremely good work, and the query will not be whether or not they’re doing good work or not, it’s why is their good work not getting traction?

“And why are they being attacked in the best way they’re being attacked? So I needed simply to place them on the coronary heart of it.

“I grew up round journalists, my dad labored on a newspaper. So I like journalists, and I believe they’re essential and necessary.”

Civil Conflict is launched in UK cinemas on April 12.