From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Moosley with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today, after Lorde Dern, before she starred in Citizen Ruth, Blue Velvet, Jurassic Park,

and before winning an Oscar for Marriage Story, she watched Martin Scorsese's director mother,

Diane Ladd, in the 1974 film Alice doesn't live here anymore.

Dern was about seven, and because of her parents, movie sets were always a part of her life.

I think they said the first set they brought me to, I was like three weeks old,

and they used the dresser drawer of the motel, as my crib, on a film they were working on.

Dern's new book is a series of conversations with her mother about their family and the movie industry.

We'll also hear from Playwright Jeremy O'Harris.

He'll talk about the Broadway production of the Lorraine Hansberry Play,

the sign in Sydney Bruce Dean's window, his rise to fame,

and his debut production slave play.

This is Fresh Air Weekend, I'm Tanya Moosley. Terry has our first interview.

My guest, Lorde Dern, has been a professional actor since she was about 11.

She grew up in a movie world. Her parents are actors, Diane Ladd, and Bruce Dern.

When Lorde was a child, she was an extra in the film, Alice doesn't live here anymore,

which co-starred her mother, and was directed by Martin Scorsese.

She wasn't in the typical kids films or teen films.

No, she co-starred in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet,

and starred with Nicholas Cage and her mother in Lynch's Wild at Heart.

For the film Rambling Rose, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress,

and her mother was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

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