Laura Dern

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Actor Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd have always shared a profession. But when Ladd was diagnosed with lung disease, the two started sharing so much more. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine. Dern talks with Terry Gross about growing up with actor parents, encountering predatory behavior in Hollywood, and accessing rage for some of her hot-headed roles.

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0:00.0	This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:02.6	My guest, Laura Dern, has been a professional actor
0:05.4	since she was about 11.
0:07.0	She grew up in a movie world.
0:08.7	Her parents, her actors, Diane Ladd, and Bruce Dern.
0:12.2	When Laura was a child, she was an extra in the film,
0:15.0	Alice doesn't live here anymore,
0:16.9	which co-starred her mother and was directed by Martin Scorsese.
0:20.9	She wasn't in the typical kids films or teen films.
0:24.2	No, she co-starred in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet
0:27.7	and starred with Nicholas Cage and her mother,
0:30.3	in Lynch's Wild at Heart.
0:32.2	For the film Rambling Rose, she was nominated for an Oscar
0:35.2	for Best Actress, and her mother was nominated
0:37.7	for Best Supporting Actress.
0:39.5	The first and only time a mother and daughter
0:42.4	were nominated for the same film.
0:44.8	They made a very convincing mother and daughter
0:46.8	in the HBO series Enlightened, for which Dern received
0:50.0	a golden globe.
0:51.6	Dern won a prime time Emmy for her performance
0:53.8	in HBO's Big Little Eyes, and an Oscar for her role
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