--- title: Kirsten Dunst Masterfully Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu description: Kirsten Dunst may not have been able to find her seat at the 2018 Emmys, but she did find a way to stay mostly incognito. canonical: https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-18T15:43:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:55.962Z og:title: No One Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu Like Kirsten Dunst og:description: The actress couldn't find her seat — but still managed to stay low key about it og:url: https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafcbe27daa1004b5/69893a84db2987ec6a260b62/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: 70th Emmy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No One Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu Like Kirsten Dunst twitter:description: The actress couldn't find her seat — but still managed to stay low key about it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafcbe27daa1004b5/69893a84db2987ec6a260b62/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No One Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu Like Kirsten Dunst > Sponsored content. 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Kirsten Dunst attends the 70th Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 18, 2018 3:43 PM UTC [Kirsten Dunst](http://time.com/4780726/kirsten-dunst-on-spiderman/) made a return to the spotlight on Monday night at the [70th Primetime Emmy Awards](http://time.com/5399016/emmys-2018-recap/) — but perhaps not quite the way she expected. After garnering praise on the [red carpet](https://people.com/parents/emmys-2018-kirsten-dunst-post-baby-red-carpet-jesse-plemons/?xid=socialflow%5Ftwitter%5Fpeoplemag&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=peoplemagazine), the new mom — with beau and fellow _Fargo_ actor [Jesse Plemons](http://time.com/3628741/fargo-season-2-kirsten-dunst-jesse-plemons/) in tow — had a bit of a snafu inside Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theater when, midway through the show, she apparently had difficulty finding her seat. Not to worry; Dunst and Plemons simply crouched down in the aisle, committed to staying in a central location for the evening. “Couldn’t find our seats,” Dunst captioned an Instagram photo. The picture: a screen grab of _The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel_ actress [Alex Borstein](http://time.com/5399408/alex-borstein-emmys-2018/) making her way to the stage to accept her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, while behind her in the background Dunst and Plemons can be spotted in crouched position in the aisle. Not every celebrity would be willing to drop down to the ground to avoid upstaging a fellow actor for their big moment, so kudos to Dunst and Plemons for being so accommodating in their time of confusion. And not every celebrity would also go ahead and share the annotated screen grab on social media, forever marking the moment with laughter. But this is Kirsten Dunst, so all bets are off. Plemons was nominated during the evening for his work on _Black Mirror_; [he lost out to](https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2018/outstanding-lead-actor-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie) Darren Criss in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category, for Criss’s role in _The Assassination of Gianni Versace._ Dunst and Plemons welcomed a baby boy in May, and the Emmys marked Dunst’s first red carpet appearance since giving birth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/"},"headline":"No One Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu Like Kirsten Dunst","datePublished":"2018-09-18T15:43:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:55.962Z","description":"No seat, no problem","url":"https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","awards","Emmys 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafcbe27daa1004b5/69893a84db2987ec6a260b62/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafcbe27daa1004b5/69893a84db2987ec6a260b62/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"70th Emmy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"70th Emmy Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5399459/kirsten-dunst-emmys-2018/","name":"No One Handles an Emmys 2018 Snafu Like Kirsten Dunst"}}]}] ```