Film school is a touchy subject. If you're in insurmountable debt from it, like me, you have many feelings when it comes to the good ol' days of wide-eyed academia and the promise of breaking into the movie biz. It's a place where I wrote a screenplay that sold and allowed me to break in; it's also a place that charged me way more than that screenplay sold for me to attend.As it turns, out even legends like Laura Dern have a complicated relationship with film school as well. Dern, the actress in many classic movies like Jurassic Park, Citizen Ruth, and October Sky, as well as Big Little Lies on HBO, went to film school at one point.And when she got offered one of the lead roles in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, film school stood in the way of her making her dreams come true. Dern recently sat down with Team Coco and recounted the tale. Laura Dern | Where Everybody Knows Your Name www.youtube.com Dern set the stage, saying, “I was 17, so excited to get into UCLA. I was there for two days, and I had auditioned and got offered the role in Blue Velvet.”This was obviously so exciting and a huge opportunity. Lynch was already an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who was one of the hottest names in Hollywood. But the Dean of her film school program told her “absolutely not.”Dern continued, “I said, ‘I have this opportunity and he said, ‘Well, I’ll look at the script...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 26 July