Laura Dern

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Actress Laura Dern has a long career of big-name credits, but this past year has thrust her into the spotlight. In this week’s episode of “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks with the Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress about her big year that’s included roles in the hit HBO series “Big Little Lies,” on the big screen in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” and in the revival of the cult classic “Twin Peaks.” She opens up about growing up in Hollywood the daughter of movie stars, and what it was like to be nominated for an Oscar alongside her mother for their film “Rambling Rose.” Dern also discusses her intense new movie “The Tale” and the importance of stepping up as a leader in the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up.

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0:00.0	Willie Geist back with you for another edition of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:06.1	Great to have you with us.
0:07.1	I've always thank you so much for clicking, subscribing, downloading.
0:10.6	However you get a podcast on your device, we appreciate it.
0:14.4	This week my guest is a great actress and a great woman.
0:19.2	Laura Dern.
0:20.2	Laura Dern, come on.
0:21.2	Laura Dern, who doesn't love Laura Dern?
0:23.6	There's a term that I borrow in the interview and I want to apologize now for it.
0:28.7	It's the Dernissants.
0:30.7	I don't know.
0:31.7	Somebody's calling it the Dernissants because at 51 years old she's blowing up.
0:37.0	She was in the Star Wars movie as the vice admiral.
0:39.3	You know that.
0:40.6	She's on the hit HBO show Big Little Lies won an Emmy for that show.
0:45.0	Second season now shooting with, by the way, the edition of Merrill Streep to the cast.
0:49.3	We'll get into that.
0:50.9	She's also in the revival of Twin Peaks.
0:53.5	She's done it all.
0:54.5	What she finds amusing is that there is such idea that this is some sort of a renaissance
0:59.4	because she's been acting professionally since she was 13 years old and doing a pretty damn good job of it.
1:04.6	We'll talk about her long professional relationship with David Lynch.
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