Fans love Kirsten Dunst’s reaction to ‘weird’ first kiss with Brad Pitt when she was 12

Kirsten Dunst recalled hating her kiss with her adult co-star Brad Pitt while filming Interview with the Vampire when she was just 12 years old.

The actress reflected on the weird moment with the Hollywood heart-throb in a resurfaced 1994 interview going viral on TikTok.

Asked how she felt about her kiss, a young Dunst told her interviewer that she didn’t enjoy it due to being a pre-teen, while Pitt, at 31, was a fully-grown man.

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She added that the awkwardness was made worse by the fact that it was her first kiss.

“I love Brad, he’s so nice … it was just, like, it feels awkward,” she told the reporter at the time, while promoting her film, Little Women, with co-star Samantha Matthis.

“I mean, I’m 12. And he’s like 31 and it’s like, he’s a man. So why would I enjoy kissing him?” Dunst giggled uncomfortably.

The reporter laughed and asked Matthis, then 24, what she would do if given the chance to kiss Brad Pitt.

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“Oh, I don’t think I’d turn it down! I mean, he’s a wonderful actor too though, but I understand,” Matthis replied, before telling Dunst: “Maybe you’re not into kissing boys yet, so I can relate.”

Dunst swiftly replied: “Well, especially because Brad is 31. I mean, he’s not exactly a boy.”

When asked if it would’ve made a difference if he was 15, she said it would.

TikTok users have since showered Dunst with praise for how she handled herself in the interview.

“They expected her to have a different answer???” one user asked, while another commented: “She was 12. He was a grown-ass man. Leave her alone. She shouldn’t have to defend it being awkward.”

Another agreed: “Her point is totally valid and the chick next to her played it like she’s too young to even know better wtf,” while one wrote: “The way she stood her ground.”

One viewer did flip the question to her co-star, asking: “What does Brad Pitt think of it?”

In the movie, Dunst played Claudia, a 10-year-old girl who is turned into a vampire by Louis de Pointe du Lac (played by Pitt) and Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Tom Cruise).

In a more recent interview with Vanity Fair, Dunst maintained that kissing Pitt was one of the worst parts of making that movie.

And despite being “treated like a total princess on set”, she said she still struggled with that scene and another scene where she had to bite the neck of an actor who was sweating heavily during filming.

“That was the worst thing I did and also having obviously to kiss Brad Pitt at that point,” she told the magazine.

“I was a little girl and he was like a brother to me and it was very weird even though it was a peck. I was very not into it.”

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk