NEW YORK (AP) -- Kirsten Dunst's role as a cheerleader in the new comedy Bring It On isn't much of a stretch: the teen actress once hoisted a megaphone or two back in eighth grade.
"I did it to be popular," Dunst admits in the September issue of Maxim magazine.
The role, like many she's taken, is more innocent than her breakout part in Interview With the Vampire, in 1994, when she played an adult bloodsucker trapped in a child's body.
"My acting coach helped me so much, finding things that I could focus on that would get that anger out that I didn't really have. A lot of the time we used little tricks to get those sexy faces out of me in my scenes with Brad Pitt. C'mon, I was a little girl. Boys had cooties."
