If You’re Going to Rob The Cradle, It’s Good to Know Some Bedtime Stories I’d set her up with a poet, so she’ll get caught up in the romance of it. So I would never set her up with a hound. Her battle is that the world tells her she can’t be herself. It’s a great quality and a dangerous one because she doesn’t know how to be discreet. Rose is like a child who will run to the person they love the most and just show it all. She enters the movie saying, “Here I am,” but learns that she’s not supposed to be so open emotionally and physically. Rose is still this child from the back hills of Alabama, with an abusive dad, and she was never taught how to act so that society would approve of her. Rose can’t say no in some ways - not that she’s so overtly sexual. If you want to go to the beach on the spur of the moment, if you want to kiss under the stars, whatever, she’ll go for it. She’ll go out of her way to give to people, to be nurturing. She’s got a prettiness about her spirit, a sweetness. If I were setting up rose for a blind date, I would say: “You’ll love her. (She did, however, know all along who killed Laura Palmer. She was even offered a role as one of the Twin Peaks gals but wasn’t ready to do television.
Those roles include the precocious, virginal Connie in Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk the wholesome idealist Sandy in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and the scrumptious soul mate Lula in Lynch’s follow-up, Wild at Heart, which won the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 1990. Her graceful neck punctuates.Įver since her featured debut as a blind girl in Mask, Dern has cornered the market on playing the young woman discovering new places in herself. Her shoulders, like lips of soft skin, sinew and bone, are always in motion, speaking for themselves. All good actresses have that.”Įven when turned the other way - hiding the painted red lips, the strong nose and jaw and the powerful eyes - Dern needs no help conveying emotion. “It’s incredible,” says photograher Matthew Rolston, “how she can act with her eyes. Her mouth is barely open her gaze is challenging yet beseeching.
Dern’s customary long blond hair is chopped off at the shoulders, wet and slicked back. The hypnotic sway of a new British group called the Bandera’s evokes a surreally languid ambience. The twenty-four-year-old actress’s five-foot-ten-inch frame is bathed in hot flashes of strobe light.
At the moment, Laura Dern is standing on a concrete floor in a West Hollywood photo studio, toeing a strip of masking tape.
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