Laura Dern remembers her colleague and friend David Lynch on his 79th birthday.
“Happy birthday, delicious food,” Dern wrote on Instagram alongside a warm photo of the two. “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.” (The visionary director was particularly fond of nicknames for many of his muses: Dern means “snack,” Naomi Watts means “buttercup,” Patricia Arquette means “solid gold,” and Kyle MacLachlan is “turnip.”)
Dern worked with Lynch on three films, starting with the 1986 mystery thriller Blue velvetin which she plays Sandy Williams – a detective's daughter who gets involved in an investigation involving a severed ear – opposite MacLachlan's main man. Although Dern had been acting for more than a decade before the crime thriller was released, the role — along with her own in 1985 mask – It was distinguished by its penetration.
Four years later, she appeared as Lola in Nicholas Cage's 1990s film Sailor Wild at hearta romantic crime novel based on Barry Gifford's novel of the same name, which follows a young pair of different assassins hired by Lola's domineering mother.
In addition, Big little lies The actress collaborated with Lynch on the psychological thriller Inland Empire (2006), as well as a third season for Showtime Twin Peaksset 25 years after the original 1990s ABC series.
Co-stars MacLachlan and Cage were among the wave of tributes that poured in after Lynch's death on January 15.
“Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my understanding, David Lynch plucked me from obscurity to star in his first and last big-budget film. Clearly he saw something in me that I didn't even recognize. I owe my entire career and my life to his vision,” he wrote. MacLachlan in a post.
Cage said about his experience filming Wild at heart: “He was brave, brilliant, a maverick with a delightful sense of humour. I've never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch. He will always be pure gold.”
Dern's tribute comes as his children asked people around the world to join them in a 10-minute “global group meditation” earlier today to honor the director on his birthday.
