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Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
Kirsten Dunst has a soft spot for satire.
The actress has proven it in projects from the
movie “Drop Dead Gorgeous” to the second
season of the series “Fargo.” She tackles the
genre again – as both the star and (along with
fellow “ER” alum George Clooney and others)
an executive producer – as a revenge-minded
crusader against a pyramid marketing scheme
that costs her a lot in the early 1990s in “On
Becoming a God in Central Florida,” initially
made for YouTube Red but with Showtime
debuting it instead on Sunday, Aug. 25.
“Mostly, I always look for (a desired) director
or things that I would want to see or characters
I’d like to play,” Dunst explains. “and I have
to say this material was just so special to me.
It’s been three years now, and we’ve really had
a little bit of a roller coaster of how this show
actually got made to now being at Showtime.”
The series’ Founders American Merchandise
– or FAM, to make the acronym clear – is
fictional, but actual operations have shared its
personalized approach that Dunst’s character
Krystal Stubbs comes to oppose with fury.
“I wasn’t totally familiar with that kind of
multilevel marketing scheme,” Dunst says, “but
I was more familiar with cults and that kind of
thing, which I think this is comparable to.”
Co-star Mel Rodriguez (“The Last Man on
Earth”), who plays Krystal’s boss at a water
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Kirsten Dunst stars in
“On Becoming a God in
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“My mother was in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
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