Laura dern wild at heart gifs4/20/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Your mother is Diane Ladd your father is Bruce Dern your godmother was Shelley Winters. Can I call myself Doctor now?!? □□Ī post shared by lauradern on at 11:17am PST Thank you for your first ever honorary degree. Read More: Bilge Ebiri on Why We Picked Her In a one-hour conversation at Vulture Festival in New York, we discussed the path she’s carved out for herself, including her work with Lynch, the fallout from shooting Ellen DeGeneres’ coming-out episode, and imagining what her career would have been like if she had been male. So it’s fitting that we at Vulture would bestow our first totally real and extremely legitimate honorary degree in culture to Laura Dern. Whether she was playing the drug-addled mother at the center of a national abortion controversy in Alexander Payne’s 1996 film Citizen Ruth, the prickly social-justice warrior Amy Jellicoe in Enlightened, the 2011 HBO series she co-created with Mike White, or the furious one-percenter Renata Klein in Big Little Lies, her choices have always felt slightly ahead of their time. Instead of completing a BA at UCLA, she took part in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, which then led to her role as Lula, the sexually confident woman voraciously in love with Nicolas Cage in Lynch’s follow-up, Wild at Heart. She turned down a role as the love interest in a Brat Pack-era movie in favor of doing a smaller part in Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask about a child suffering from lionitis. This is to say that, when most actors her age zigged, Dern, who was then 16, zagged. ![]()
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