Laura Dern
👤 Speaker
396
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
You know, like, it was... We made it for under $2 million.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
With myself and Treat Williams, there's a very deeply troubling and very complicated to shoot, half-hour-long kind of coaxing of this young girl toward a sexual assault based on a Joyce Carol Oates story.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
you know, radical amounts of dialogue and, you know, playing a character.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
And I was 15 when we made it, who's sort of discovering her sexuality a bit before I knew so many aspects of self.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
so emotionally vulnerable and still somehow learn how to take care of myself.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
And yeah, that was the first time I think I had to be a grownup.
SmartLess
"Laura Dern"
I just went straight to like cynical, like jaded divorcee, 47-year-old smoker.