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Kirsten Dunst insists she could've handled working with Alfred Hitchcock.
The 32-year-old actress has been referred to as a "classic Hitchcock blonde" a number of times throughout her career, and although the legendary director of 'Psycho' and 'Rear Window' is known to have had a "creepy" infatuation with his leading ladies, she thinks she would've been able to hold her own on one of his film sets.
Speaking at a press conference for her new film 'The Two Faces of January' at London's Corinthia Hotel, she told BANG Showbiz: "I heard he was a real piece of work, to his women obviously, but I've worked with some real pieces of work in my time and I think I could handle Hitchcock."
The 'Melancholia' star plays the female lead Colette MacFarland in the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, alongside Viggo Mortensen as her wealthy older husband Chester MacFarland.
And although she claims the film definitely has a "Hitchcockian feel to it", she has defended her character's apparent naivety towards her husband's crimes.
She said: "I don't think Colette's innocent. I don't think he [Chester] would be with too innocent of a woman. I think she knows what he does, but she doesn't need to know all of it. I don't think it's innocent, I think it's just turning a blind eye.
"That's something that I think in the '50s was OK and acceptable, 'I don't know what feelings you're having but it's none of my business.'"

Viggo Mortensen wants to star in a superhero movie.
The 55-year-old actor - who is set to star alongside 'Spider-Man' actress Kirsten Dunst in the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel 'The Two Faces of January' - admits that although he had to turn down a role in 2013's Superman film 'Man of Steel', he would love to get involved in as superhero movie in the future.
Speaking at a press conference for 'The Two Faces of January' at London's Corinthia Hotel, he told BANG Showbiz: "I was offered two parts in that but I couldn't do it. It would be fun to do something like that."
Mortensen - who is is best known for playing heroic Aragorn in the blockbuster 'Lord of the Rings' films - admits he's more interested in good stories than being cast in box office hits.
Quizzed on whether he avoided accepting roles in bigger films, he said: "I don't care whether it's a blockbuster or not. I know there's a risk to going off and doing films where you're speaking Arabic, or movies that may not even be released in North America.
"If you do too many of those then maybe you're not going to be asked to do the bigger movies but I'm not worried about it."
'The Two Faces of January' will be released in cinemas across the United Kingdom on May 16.

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' will be released on November 18, 2016.
The book which was published in 2001, billed as one of Potter's Hogwarts textbooks, will be adapted by Warner Bros. and set years before the arrival of the famous boy wizard - who was portrayed on screen by Daniel Radcliffe.
However, casting and a director is yet to be determined.
CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment Kevin Tsujihara previously revealed the book will be turned into a movie trilogy.
He said: "Three megamovies are planned. The main character will be a 'magizoologist' named Newt Scamander. The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals."
Rowling has praised Tsujihara - who succeeded Barry Meyer as CEO in March 2013 - and recalled agreeing to pen the first of the spin-off movies.
She said: "When I say he made 'Fantastic Beasts' happen, it isn't PR-speak but the literal truth.
"We had one dinner, a follow-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I'd thought was going to be an interesting bit of memorabilia for my kids and started rewriting!"

Gerard Butler has been cast in the 'Den of Thieves'.
The 44-year-old actor will star in the film which follows a "legendary bank heist crew decides to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles right under the nose of a rogue sheriff's deputy", reports Variety.com.
The film will be helmed by Christian Gudegast, who also co-wrote the script alongside Paul Scheuring.
Mark Canton, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley and Alan Siegel are producing, with Chris Bender, JC Spink and Butler executive producing.
Butler recently pulled out of the 'Point Break' remake where he was due to step into the late Patrick Swayze's shoes in a reboot of the classic 1991 surfer heist film.
It is believed he opted out of playing central character Bodhi due to a scheduling conflict and unnamed "creative differences".
The Hollywood hunk, who last hit the big screen in 2013's action thriller 'Olympus Has Fallen', is next set to star in 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' where he lent his voice to the character of Stoick the Vast.

Kirsten Dunst was burnt by Viggo Mortensen during filming for 'The Two Faces of January'.
The 32-year-old actress plays the 'Lord of the Rings' stars' wife in the crime thriller, and she's admitted that while they were shooting for a scene in the film, she was injured so badly that she still has the scars.
Speaking at the film's press conference at London's Corinthia hotel, she revealed to BANG Showbiz: "I remember that day [of filming] because Viggo is holding my body and he's grieving and he had to have a lighter on to illuminate what was happening in the scene and he's holding my body and laying me back down and I'm being burnt.
"I didn't want to say anything though, because I didn't want to ruin the scene, I was taking one for the team!"
The 'Melancholia' star revealed that the film's director, writer and film-maker Hossein Amini, didn't originally intend on giving her the part of Mortensen's character Chester MacFarland's younger wife, but she believes she brings more credibility to the role.
She said: "At first I know he [Amini] was thinking about maybe casting someone a little younger than me, to have that innocence maybe, or the flightiness of a woman who marries rich, but really what was more interesting was creating a real dynamic between us.
"A real husband and wife, and yes she's disillusioned a bit by the money and the glamour but I think that Colette truly loves Chester, and in order to make this dynamic more interesting we needed to have a more filled out woman rather than just a girl in the film."
'The Two Faces of January' will be released in cinemas across the United Kingdom on May 16.

Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Blood On Snow' has landed a scribe.
The 39-year-old actor and his Appian Way production company with partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran are set to be working on the film with Kevin McCormick's Langley Park banner for which 'Buried' scribe Chris Sparling will write a screenplay, reports Deadline.com.
The 'Wolf of Wall Street' hunk may also have a role on screen in the new project which is based on Jo Nesbo's book.
While Norwegian author Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson will executive produce.
The story follows a hit man who is forced to go into hiding after he fails on a job and finds himself on the run with his intended target, who also happens to be his boss' wife.
This comes after reports that DiCaprio has reportedly "burned" himself out and has been told to slow down by his friends as they fear his hectic work schedule is having a negative effect on his health and personal life.
A source said: "Leo has been working like a demon over the past three years - and it's now starting to come back and haunt him.
"He's pretty burned out at the moment and suffering from insomnia from pushing himself so hard.
"Everybody is begging Leo to slow down but he's just very focused on making a lot of money right now -- to the exclusion of almost everything else."

Simon Kinberg claims 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' almost didn't happen.
The producer-and-screenwriter has revealed he initially thought plans for the mutant superhero movie might have to be scrapped because it's A-list cast - which includes Sir Ian McKellan, James McAvoy, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence - were so busy and proved tricky to get together at the same time.
Speaking at the long-awaited film's UK premiere in London's Leicester Square last night (12.05.14), Kinberg told BANG Showbiz: "I never thought it would happen because I thought it would be too complicated in terms of cast ... Figuring out the schedules, getting all those people in the same place at the same time was almost as hard as writing it."
The latest instalment in the superhero saga sees Jackman's clawed alter ego travel back in time to prevent the mutant race from becoming extinct, and Kinberg believes focusing the plot so heavily on Wolverine was an obvious choice.
Kinberg reasoned: "Some reasons [for choosing Wolverine] are obvious, he's in some ways the fan favourite of the group in the franchise, the other obvious thing is his age - the character was developed in 1973.
"But for me the part that was the most compelling was the idea that the character who had been saved and mentored by the older Charles Xavier was going back in time was going back in time to save and mentor the younger Charles Xavier, essentially taking the lessons he learnt from the older character and teaching them to his younger self."
Kinberg braved heavy rain to walk the special blue carpet at the event and was joined by several stars of the film such as Fassbender, McKellen and McAvoy who was accompanied by his actress wife Anne-Marie Duff.

'Alien' designer H. R. Giger has died.
The Swiss surrealist artist passed away on Monday (12.05.14) at the age of 74 in hospital after falling down the stairs at his Zurich home, a spokesperson at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland, has revealed.
Although already an acclaimed artist, Giger found fame when he designed the 'Xenomorph' extra-terrestrial for Sir Ridley Scott's acclaimed 1979 sci-fi movie.
The creature was based on his painting 'Necronom IV' and his work on the alien and other sets such as 'The Space Jockey' and 'The Derelict' earned him and the rest of special effects team the 1980 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Giger's work was featured in the three subsequent 'Alien' films with him creating new designs for 'Alien 3'. Scott also got him to create original extraterrestrial murals for his prequel movie 'Prometheus', which was released in 2012.
In 2013, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle for his work on the iconic franchise.
Away from the big screen, the artist was famous for creating surrealist sculptures and paintings which usually depicted strange dreamscapes featuring humans and machines fused together or engaged in sexual activity, a style Giger referred to as "biomechanical".
Giger's work was also used for a number of album covers including Blondie singer Debbie Harry's solo album 'Koo Koo'.
A poster he created for the inside of the album sleeve of The Dead Kennedys' LP 'Frankenchrist' - which showed rows of human genitalia engaged in sex - led to the group's frontman Eric Reed Boucher being tried in 1986 for distributing harmful material to children in 1986, however, the case was dismissed.
Giger is survived by his wife Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who runs his museum.

Michael Fassbender says Magneto is "more Machiavellian" in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
The 37-year-old actors stars as a young Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, in the superhero film which will unite the casts of the original 'X-Men' trilogy with their younger counterparts from 'First Class', and insists his alter-ego has stronger beliefs now.
Talking to BANG Showbiz at the film's premiere in London's Leicester Square on Monday (12.05.14), he said: "In this film he is Magneto. He is much more singular in his beliefs and methods. He's much more Machiavellian."
Magneto was at odds with Professor X for decades however with a mutant annihilation on the cards it forces him to form new alliances and Fassbender enjoyed seeing this develop.
He added: "I just love the character. There is so much history in the character before I have arrived in his shoes. There's so much to play with, he's very complex. I love the relationship he has with Professor X."
The Hollywood hunk was joined by co-stars Ian McKellen and James McAvoy on the blue carpet.