If this isn't an all-out smile, I don't know what is. Those sparkling white teeth and healthy-looking gums belong to Kirsten Dunst. What a world! What a life! What a dentist!.
I'm assuming Dunst's is the last On the Road "character" poster we're adding, as every major On the Road character has already gotten his/her poster. Dunst's actually came out before the ones for the film's three leads, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart. We're just late posting it.
In On the Road, Dunst plays Camille, the wife of Dean Moriarty (Hedlund), who leaves her behind to go on the road with the much younger MaryLou (Stewart). Camille is based on Carolyn Cassady, the first wife of the sexually adventurous Neal Cassady (Moriarty in the novel/film). Sissy Spacek played Carolyn Cassady in John Byrum's Heart Beat, based on Cassady's 1976 book of memoirs, Heart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal. In that film, Nick Nolte played Neal Cassady; John Heard was Jack Kerouac. The 89-year-old Cassady currently lives in England.
Though only 30 (last April 30), Kirsten Dunst has appeared in more than 40 features since the late '80s, when she played Mia Farrow's daughter in New York Stories' Woody Allen-directed segment "Oedipus Wrecks." Among her most notable roles are those in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women (1994), Jumanji (1995), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Bring It On (2000), Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow (2001, as Marion Davies), Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and its sequels, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011), which earned Dunst the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Dunst will next be seen in Leslye Headland's comedy Bachelorette, with Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and James Marsden; in what sounds like a cameo in Ashley Cahill's Charm; and as the leading lady in Juan Diego Solanas' romantic drama Upside Down, opposite Jim Sturgess.
Now, remember: It's Kirsten Dunst but Kristen Stewart. The latter's first name is spelled like Kristen Wiig's first name, but unlike Kristin Scott Thomas or Christine Lahti or Christina Aguilera or Christiane Amanpour or Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Or Cristian Mungiu or Cristiano Ronaldo, for that matter. I hope that's cyrstal clear.
In addition to Dunst, Snow White and the Huntsman / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2's Stewart, Control / Byzantium's Riley, and TRON: Legacy / Inside Llewyn Davis' Hedlund, On the Road features the following performers: Man of Steel / Junebug's Amy Adams, Eastern Promises / A Dangerous Method's Viggo Mortensen (as a fictionalized William S. Burroughs), Elysium / I Am Legend's Alice Braga, Waiting for Forever / Being Julia's Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx (a fictionalized Allen Ginsberg, not a fictionalized Harpo Marx), Ideal / Off the Hook's Danny Morgan, and Mad Men / Get Him to the Greek's Elisabeth Moss. [See also Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Alice Braga, Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Elisabeth Moss, and Tom Sturridge On the Road posters.]
Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries collaborator José Rivera wrote the screenplay adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel. Brokeback Mountain's Oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla composed the score.
On the Road will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's one of the 20 or so films in competition. On the Road opens in France on May 23. There's no set US release date/distributor as yet, though that should change in the coming weeks.