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The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

The film received ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance.

Roger Ebert commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of the " creepier " aspects of the film, and mentioned her ability to convey the impression of great age inside apparent youth.

Todd McCarthy in Variety noted that Dunst was " just right " for the family.

The film featured a scene in which Dunst shared her first on-screen kiss with Brad Pitt, who was eighteen years her senior.

In an interview with Interview magazine, she revealed, while questioned about her kissing scene with Pitt, that kissing him had made her feel uncomfortable: " I thought it was gross, that Brad had cooties.

I mean, I was 10.

" Her performance earned her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress, and her first Golden Globe Award nomination.