Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast (via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she ...

At the start of her film career, Laura Dern took a big risk, quitting college to star in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The Big Little Lies star recalled she learned she had landed the role of Sandy ...

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.

Thirty-eight years after the late critic's one-star review, the actress has expressed how "surprised" she was by the allegation, as she chose to portray the abused character. By Tatiana Tenreyro ...

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When the news dropped Thursday that Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch had died at the age of 78, one very predictable thing was unleashed on social media: Memories of Lynch's time in ...

Dean Stockwell's lip-sync performance to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in "Blue Velvet" is a memorable scene showcasing the film's unique style. A dog eating a human heart in "One Tree Hill" became a ...

"I remember I was told that Roger Ebert said that [Lynch] exploited me, and I was surprised, because I was an adult. I was 31 or 32. I chose to play the character," Rossellini told IndieWire when ...