Pushkin.

I feel. I feel every character I've played as some part of self.

You know, it's an amazing journey to get to find aspects of one's personality through work.

And some actors may not do it that way or whatever, but I feel privileged that I'm

given a part that wasn't given to anybody else just like they are given something that's not meant for me and you know if there is some

Destin side of it that this is the thing I'm going to spend 12 weeks living in the

shoes of and in the cells of this person, it's an opportunity to look at what makes us respond in these ways to these ideas and where do I do

that or not do that and how do I come up in comparison and I think it has been very healing

for me and inspiring and terrifying and all of that stuff. That was Laura Dern.

I'm Sam Fricoso and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. This is Talk Easy.

I'm San Francisco.

Laura Dern is our guest this week.

That is a sentence I've been wanting to say for a long, long time.

Laura is someone who, I'm going to guess doesn't need one of my long

winded introductions so I'll keep it brief. You have unquestionably seen her in

at least one of these films or television shows including Blue Velvet,

Wild at Heart, Ramble in Rose, Jurassic Park,

Enlightened Citizen Ruth, The Master, Wild, 99 Homes.

The list really does go, in her case, on and on and on.

We could talk about how great she is in all of these projects, but instead I thought we would take

a second and listen to a clip from her latest performance in Noah Baumbach's marriage story. In it, she plays a high-powered

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