Laura Dern

So that was a really cool experience.

Amazingly, I got cast.

I didn't know what it was going to be or it was such an insane, brilliant and insane script and world.

Terrifying and beautiful and all the things that, you know, and hilarious and all the things that Blue Velvet is.

But I had just started college.

I was on day two when I got offered the movie and was beside myself and was told that I couldn't leave school.

They wouldn't let me have a leave of absence.

So I went to the head of the program I was in to say, here's the script, here's everything.

Can I have a tutor?

And I'll, you know...

Whatever it takes.

You know, behind the scenes, like, I'll do whatever I can do.

Please, please.

And I remember saying to this professor, I just have this feeling this is my college education.

And they told me that not only would I never be invited back to this college,

university if I chose the movie but that I was making you know the most radical mistake of my life and so I remember entering that whole experience thinking which I don't think I ever would have understood if I hadn't watched my parents with these directors and

had this feeling with David, like, this is my, not only home, but this is my teacher.

This is my college.

This will be, I mean, in some unconscious way, I think I did know this is the greatest opportunity.

Now I would definitely be.