Laura Dern is grateful that visionary David Lynch took her under his wing at the start of her career.
Lynch cast Laura as an attractive girl next door Blue velvet, as a seductress Wild at heart, and an unearthly FBI secretary Twin peaks, and in his final and most disturbing film, Home Empire.
During an interview with The independentpublished on January 31, the actress was joined by her Is this thing on? Costar Andra Day.
The duo started talking about being a visionary’s muse, with Day saying, “You know you’re in the hands of someone who really cares about you,” adding that she would even play “a live-action Kermit the Frog” if Lee Daniels asked her to.
“We found our person, right?” Dern said.
“And my person told me I can do anything,” she said of Lynch.
She reflected on the director’s latest feature film Domestic Empire, where she played a troubled woman. The film danced between real and unreal, between logic and abstraction.
The Lonely planet star recalled with a smile, “He says, ‘Now you’re going to do something — I don’t even know what it is yet, but you’re going to show me, and then I’m going to find out what I’ve been dreaming about.'”
“That kind of faith is incredible. I once told my mother that David’s unconditional trust in me is something I’ve only ever felt from her. It’s that kind of love where they just believe in you so much. [He] saw things in me that I didn’t see in myself,” she added.
Laura Dern stars opposite Will Arnett in Bradley Cooper’s divorce comedy/drama Is this thing on? The film is now showing in cinemas.
