In his memoir, Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have (2007), Dern’s father, actor Bruce Dern recalls that he was making the Western Will Penny (1967) when his wife, actress Diane Ladd, gave birth to their daughter. Taken together, the roles are master classes in acting. Dern nails the particular shadings of both perfectly: Bobbi, the cheerfully supportive earth mother living under the shadow of her former marriage to an abusive man and coping with cancer in Wild, in contrast to Big Little Lies’ Renata, a Type-A business executive whose maternal instincts are far more ferocious. In both Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild (2014) and the TV show Big Little Lies (2017), Dern plays a mom, but the difference between these two women could fill an ocean. Two recent roles, one for which she was nominated for an Oscar and another for which she won a Prime-Time Emmy and a Golden Globe, demonstrate Dern’s extraordinary range. Over the next three decades, she would play radically different young women in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990), a drug-addled wastrel in Citizen Ruth (1996), a lethal dental hygienist in the blackly comedic film noir Novocaine (2001), and the deeply flawed heroine trying to take her life back in her series Enlightened (2011-2013). The first impression she made, not quite even an ingenue, was in a party scene in Foxes (1980) as a girl in thick glasses trying to appear worldly as she discusses birth control. Yes, Jurassic Park is on the lineup as well - because that film, like life and Laura Dern, always finds a way.In a career that began before she was old enough to drive, Laura Dern has played a dazzling array of women.
Or, you can feast your eyes on her early work in Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains and Smooth Talk, jump to the 90s with Citizen Ruth, or see Dern's turn as a determined lawyer in Certain Women. With a name like that, Wild at Heart obviously features on the bill - and, because Dern has multiple collaborations with David Lynch to choose from, so does Inland Empire. So, between Friday, January 14–Saturday, January 22, Golden Age Cinema and Bar is doing exactly that as part of a seven-film season it's calling Wild at Heart: The Films of Laura Dern. Yes, we're talking about the one and only Laura Dern.Ī constant delight on our screens for more than four decades now, Dern has experienced quite the career - the type that it's always worth celebrating, in fact.
She's the kind of star who completely changes every film she's in with her inimitable presence. She's played a glue-huffing delinquent and an actor pushed to her limits, too. She's tussled with dinosaurs and been serenaded by Nicolas Cage.
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