A Brief History of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons's Sweet Friends-to-Lovers Romance

Dunst and Plemons struck up a friendship while filming season two of the FX series "Fargo" in 2015. On the show, they portrayed married high school sweethearts, Peggy and Ed Blomquist. At the time, Dunst was in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Garrett Hedlund.

The couple first sparked dating rumors when they were spotted packing on the PDA while strolling around in Studio City, CA. Their newfound romance made headlines just one month after rumors began swirling that Dunst and Hedlund had called it quits on their four-year relationship.

On Aug. 29, 2019, Dunst received one of the highest distinctions in Hollywood: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony, Plemons raved about his fiancée and the admirable work she's put out since first breaking into the industry three decades prior.

"Seeing the kind of mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and cohort you are is why I and all of your friends and everyone else are here today, and why we all love you," he said during his speech. "It's for the incredibly generous and amazing person that you are."

"You are truly one of a kind and the best woman I know," he said. "I'm so lucky to have you in my life, and Hollywood Boulevard is so lucky to have you on its sidewalks."

The couple reignited their onscreen chemistry in Netflix's "The Power of the Dog," which hit the streaming platform on Dec. 1, 2021. Based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name, the Western drama is about two Montana ranchers and brothers, one of whom (Plemons) falls madly in love with a widow (Dunst).

Speaking exclusively with People days after the premiere of "The Power of the Dog," the actor said that he can't dream of doing another project unless Dunst is also tied to it. "I don't wanna do another project without her. It's just the best," he told the publication. "We fell in love creatively first on 'Fargo,' just immediately trusted each other. I'm constantly amazed by what she brings. She just operates from such a deep place in her soul."

"We call each other husband and wife. But we have to get married at this point. It's ridiculous. We just haven't planned a wedding," Dunst told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Feb. 22, 2022. "There was COVID, then we had another child. I didn't want to be pregnant, get married, have a party and not be able to have fun with everybody," she further explained.

Dunst and Plemons hit their first red carpet as a married couple for the April 26, 2023, premiere of Plemons's HBO show, "Love & Death," a dramatization of the true-crime story of Candy Montgomery. In the show, Plemons plays a married man named Allen Gore, who enters into an affair with Candy (played by Elizabeth Olsen), only for their forbidden dalliance to end in the murder of his wife, Betty.