Paltrow needs to act crazier, says Dunst

Kirsten Dunst has criticised Gwyneth Paltrow's portrayal of American author Sylvia Plath.

16:35 08 March 2004

Kirsten Dunst has criticised Gwyneth Paltrow's portrayal of American author Sylvia Plath.

Dunst, who's latest film 'Mona Lisa Smile' has just hit UK cinema screens, has said that she wanted to play the part of the suicidal poet.

And the Spiderman actress was less than impressed with Oscar winner Paltrow's portrayal.

'I think that Sylvia was a girl who wanted to hurt. She wanted to feel terrible,' Dunst said.

'I felt like, in the movie, it was more like, 'I'm the victim!' It should have been more that she liked to create all this s**t in her head. She was crazier.'

Sylvia Plath was an American novelist and poet who married British poet Ted Hughes, moved to London and committed suicide in the 1960s by placing her head in an oven.

Plath famously penned 'The Bell Jar' - an autobiographical portrait of a bright girl's descent into madness and attempted suicide.