Jesse Plemons has crowned his wife, Kirsten Dunst, the coolest mom on the planet after she landed a role in the Minecraft sequel. The couple's household, it turns out, runs on a very strict ranking of parental achievements. Somewhere between school runs and bedtime negotiations, one film franchise apparently outranks every other career milestone. Plemons, for his part, has already accepted his place on the family scoreboard without a fight.

While Plemons happily rides those coattails, the real question is how Dunst turned a family wish into an actual casting call.

Jesse Plemons says Kirsten Dunst earned the coolest mom title by manifesting her spot in the Minecraft sequel. Their sons love the game, so a Minecraft movie became the ultimate parenting flex. Dunst plays Alex in the follow-up, A Minecraft Movie Squared.

"I just have to give up trying to compete with Kirsten," Plemons told Entertainment Tonight.

He then added, "She just kind of manifested it and is now the coolest mom on the planet."

Plemons shared the details in a chat with Entertainment Tonight, where he admitted that, as far as he knows, nobody has called him about a Minecraft part. He still wants a project his kids would love, though the sequel set a high bar. Director Jared Hess has praised Dunst for earning big mom points with her boys. The couple attended the Los Angeles premiere of Digger on September 28, 2026.

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While the premiere night stayed glamorous, the Rotten Tomatoes score gave Digger a much colder welcome.

Tom Cruise now has the lowest critic score of his last decade, thanks to a 41% Rotten Tomatoes debut for Digger. Cruise had spent ten years stacking hits, including several Mission: Impossible films and Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the black comedy opens in theaters on October 2. Hollywood had hyped it as an Oscar lock, so the early reviews arrived like a plot twist nobody ordered.

The reported budget sits between $125 million and $130 million, so the film needs roughly $300 million to $330 million worldwide to break even. World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy reported tracking for an opening below $10 million across more than 3,500 theaters. Insiders whisper the true cost may pass $180 million, and Global Box Office analysts estimate losses near $100 million. Kirsten Dunst, meanwhile, holds the only review that matters at home: coolest mom on the planet.

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