Kirsten Dunst, 41, actress, promotes conversation at the kitchen table at home. “I’m not raising a child who can’t have a conversation at the table,” Dunst told US magazine Variety. In her family life, she avoids screens and too much digital technology; instead, her family has a record player. “We’re just not a ‘Siri, play whatever’ household.” She has her two sons, five and two years old, with her husband and fellow actors Jesse Plemons didn’t get any tablet devices either, said Dunst. Looking at her cell phone in a restaurant isn’t her thing either.
Julia Stiles, 43, actress and director, finds motherhood to be career-enhancing. She thinks caring for children is “really good training for working as a director,” she told the New York Times. “You have to think ten steps ahead, but also be in the here and now. You have to have good time management. You have to be sensitive to people’s needs and guide them, but also maintain boundaries.” Stiles has a six-year-old and a two-year-old son with her husband Preston Cook and has now had a third child. The actress, who became known for the “Bourne” series, was behind the camera for the first time for the film adaptation of the novel “Wish You Were Here” by Renée Carlino. “I’m on the fence when it comes to sleep,” Stiles said, referring to her new job. “But I feel more energized than ever.”
July toe, 49, writer, is fascinated by island people. 20 years ago, the author (“Among People”, “Between Worlds”) spent a few months on Sylt as an island writer. In the particularly noble town of Kampen she noticed the fashion of the residents, she said in one star-Interview, namely “that mother and daughters basically wear the same thing, in terms of clothes and hairstyles”. The same applies to fathers and sons. “It looked so bizarre that my husband and I thought about writing a satirical text about ‘The Children of Kampen’. But that would have meant going to Kampen more than once, so we didn’t do it.” Zeh himself prefers the island of Lanzarote, which belongs to Spain. “The noise of the world is actually much less audible here.”