'I love finding humour in broken places': Laura Dern on playing 'messy' women

Trial by Fire, in which she plays the heedless, damaged, ambitious Laura Albert, based on the real-life San Franciscan who adopted the authorial persona of a young male prostitute and duped the literary world in the 2000s.is prime Dern. She digs into Albert's abrasiveness, manipulativeness and shamelessness and indulges, with relish, her talent for accents . The result is cringeworthy and compassionate.

Dern is known for giving life to "messy" women, women who are searching for their voice or coming into some new knowledge about who they are and what they might be entitled to. Many of her greatest triumphs have involved women unbound by the usual conventions of decorum, whose potential range of behaviour is so great that at any moment they might cry, have a tantrum or break into song.

"Like, yeah, I'm doing an audition sitting on a bed with a 40-year-old filmmaker reading together a love scene, and I'm 13, but I know how to get out of this door, and I know I'm safe – but anything could have happened. What was I doing there?" Dern was never assaulted, which she credits to "mere luck".

After weeks of being "weather cover", which meant she had to be on hand to shoot interior scenes, Dern has the day off from. She is headed to New York to spend some time with her 13-year-old daughter, Jaya, who is flying in from Los Angeles for a benefit for cancer research that she has help organise. On the train, my editor had suggested, perhaps we could use my laptop to watch some old scenes from movies Dern had been in, and Dern could comment on them.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

Yeah that movie was a hot mess

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