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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that
Laura Dern
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Laura Dern
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 10
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Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper
Laura Elizabeth Dern
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I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way it was normal to expose things.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him.
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I'd never done nudity in a movie I've never sort of condoned it for myself, but David Lynch wanted it, and I was completely comfortable with it because that love story was so protected. There's never a moment where you feel anything is exploited.
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