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Laura Dern<\/a> is easily one of the most talented stars of her generation. She might have won an Oscar for her supporting role in Marriage Story, but that\u2019s only scraping the surface of her genius, which has extended across blockbusters like Jurassic Park and incredible TV such as Big Little Lies. <\/p>\n But for many of us, Dern will always be a Lynchian icon. She collaborated with David Lynch several times in her career, beginning in 1986 when she appeared in Blue Velvet alongside Kyle MacLachlan. By the time the surrealist filmmaker was ready to make his next movie, which fell amid the popularity of his era-defining series Twin Peaks, he called Dern straight back up.<\/p>\n While Dern would come to give one of her most incredible performances directed by Lynch in 2006\u2019s Inland Empire, in which she played a woman who loses her grip on reality, it\u2019s her role in 1990\u2019s Wild at Heart that is perhaps her most beloved out of the lot. Much more accessible than Lynch\u2019s final feature, Wild at Heart is still just as bizarre at its core<\/a>, with its campy tone and blend of road trip romance, with a heavy dose of violence sprinkled on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dern played Lula alongside Nicolas Cage as Sailor, her lover. The pair have great chemistry, and it\u2019s hard to imagine any other actors who could step into the shoes of these characters as perfectly. Yet, the real dream come true wasn\u2019t working with Lynch again, or Cage, but getting to star alongside her mother. <\/p>\n Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, the latter would often appear in the same movies as her daughter, but Wild at Heart marked their first collaboration (unless you count Dern\u2019s ice-cream-eating cameo in Alice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore when she was seven). Naturally, Ladd portrayed her mother, Marietta Fortune, although they weren\u2019t exactly playing happy families. <\/p>\n Lynch\u2019s film sees Marietta hire a hitman to chase down Sailor<\/a> following his release from prison, but we see her increasingly descend into derangement over the course of the film, like when she covers her entire face in red lipstick. It\u2019s unforgettable.\u00a0<\/p>\n Talking to Interview Magazine, the actor revealed her delight at starring in the same film as her mother. \u201cIt\u2019s always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so this was a wish come true,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s comfortable to be on a set with her \u2013 I\u2019m used to that, but she blew my mind when I saw the movie. We were in so many scenes, separate from each other, neither of us knew what the other was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n The pair would go on to collaborate with each other many times over the course of the coming years, with Ladd and Dern making Oscars history<\/a> when they became the first mother-daughter duo to be nominated for their performances in the same film following their roles in the 1991 movie Rambling Rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ladd would play Dern\u2019s mother once again in Daddy and Them in 2001, while also taking on the matriarchal role in Dern\u2019s comedy-drama series Enlightened a decade later. Clearly, the pair loved sharing the screen with one another, but interestingly, it took until 2024\u2019s Palm Royale for Dern to star alongside her father, something she similarly called \u201csuch a dream come true\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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