Leigh Moore, who inspired Kirsten Dunst’s character of Leigh Wainscott in the new crime comedy ‘Roofman’, heaped praises on the Oscar-nominated actor for her portrayal, despite any one-on-one meeting.
Hollywood star Kirsten Dunst, 43, who essays non-fictional Leigh Wainscott, a single mother and Toys ‘R’ Us employee, unknowingly involved in a strange love story with escaped convict Jeffrey Manchester, in her recently released ‘Roofman’, had never met the real-life subject, Leigh Moore, before playing her on-screen, and quite willingly so, revealed the latter herself, as she reviewed the ‘Melancholia’ actor’s performance in the Derek Cianfrance’s directorial, co-starring Channing Tatum.
“Kirsten Dunst was phenomenal because she didn’t even meet with me to talk about the role,” Moore disclosed in a new interview. “She totally nailed it in every aspect.” “Everyone who knows me said the same thing – she captured that sweet Southern belle of a woman who treats everybody the same. She was fantastic,” she added.
Moore went on to address Dunst’s decision of not meeting her in person before taking on the role and shared, “She chose not to, apparently and that just speaks volumes about her talent if she could pull that off without ever having a conversation.”
“My husband and I met Derek at his makeshift office here and they filmed us talking for a couple of hours,” Moore recalls. “That’s what Kirsten saw,” she explained.
Notably, after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, Cianfrance’s crime-comedy ‘Roofman’, co-starring Dunst and Tatum with Ben Mendelsohn, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Melonie Diaz, Uzo Aduba, Lily Collias, Jimmy O Yang and Peter Dinklage, arrived in theatres on Friday, October 10.