“I love using my body as an actor and I love the physicality of characters but it’s David who specifically has made me leap into a void of trust,” Dern said recently. Their mutual admiration and understanding run deep. In that 31-year-old Times profile, it is quite clear that the author had not yet seen Dern’s next film, because he refers to it as, simply, “‘Blue Velvet,’ a suspense film scheduled to be released in September.” (Anyone who’d gotten a glimpse of Lumberton would have … a few more colorful words to say about the experience.)ĭern is now the lead actress that David Lynch has worked with most frequently this month’s Twin Peaks reboot is their fourth collaboration. It’s hard to think of another actress who moves so fluidly between the indie circuit and the blockbuster, the voice of Zen-like sanity and the mascara-streaked hot mess, and, of course, the waking world and the Lynchian dreamscape. Thirty years later - and in the midst of a career renaissance that includes roles in Big Little Lies, a rebooted Twin Peaks, and the upcoming Star Wars film The Last Jedi - Dern has indeed forged one of the more unusual careers of her generation. So I see a longer path for her, but ultimately a more rewarding one.” You name a movie with a young girl in the last five years” - Flashdance, Pretty in Pink - “and I’m sure I was up for it.” Said her costar Williams, quite prophetically, “She’s not as salable a persona as some of these other young actresses. “People now tell me it’s a good thing I stayed away from teen films,” Dern mused in the profile. Those were the breaks for a girl a little too off-kilter to be in the Brat Pack.
It was a decidedly adult role for a young actress, but that wasn’t out of character for Dern she’d already played a blind teenager in the tearjerker Mask and a girl whose teacher comes on to her in, well, Teachers. Dern played Connie, a troubled, sexually curious 15-year-old who gets involved with an older man, played by Treat Williams. Then 19 years old, Dern - the willowy, blond daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd - was promoting Smooth Talk, a coming-of-age drama adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. A bold proclamation, from a May 4, 1986, New York Times headline: “LAURA DERN IS A TEEN-AGER TO TAKE SERIOUSLY.”
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