The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

's "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" and Kirsten Dunst sang two tracks—"This Old Machine" and "Summer Day"—on Jason Schwartzman's 2007 solo album Nighttiming. Dunst's father is German originally from Hamburg and Dunst's mother who was born in New Jersey is of German and Swedish descent (Dunst affirmed her German citizenship in 2011 and now holds passports as a dual citizen of the United States and Germany). In his review A.

She also sang the jazz song "After You've Gone" for the end credits of the film The Cat's Meow (2001). Dunst achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07).