(Cover) - EN Movies - Kirsten Dunst has revealed that she felt comfortable being "so vulnerable" in her new film Melancholia.

In the drama, the actress plays a newlywed woman battling depression as apocalypse approaches.

Returning to the limelight after a three-year break, the star won the Best Actress award at the Cannes International Film Festival for her portrayal of the troubled young woman.

"I've never felt so comfortable being so vulnerable," she told Total Film. "I'm so proud of the Spider-Man films but I wanted to rebalance things."

Kirsten, who played the love interest Mary Jane Watson to Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man in the franchise, also joked that Melancholia director Lars von Trier loves to work with people from the superhero movies.

Apart from herself, the Danish director has also cast Kirsten's co-stars Willem Dafoe, who played the Green Goblin, and Bryce Dallas Howard, who appeared as the superhero's ex-girlfriend in the third instalment, in his movies.

"Willem Dafoe, Bryce Dallas Howard he only casts Spider-Man people," she laughed. (C) Cover Media