Laura Dern Is Stepping Into Her Power #Town&country
From her acclaimed role on Big Little Lies to her upcoming work in Marriage Story and Little Women, Laura Dern has a knack for turning her characters into heroines for modern times from Town and Country .
On her character, Nora, in her upcoming film Marriage Story: “Nora is the turning of the screw in this piece in that they might have done it very differently if not for this one character.”
On what the characters she chooses to play : “I’ve always been drawn to characters that not only haven’t found their voice, they don’t know they’re entitled to one. That’s been a real theme to the women that I have fallen in love with.”
On fully-realized roles for women in Hollywood post-#MeToo: “I’m being offered things that are very true about a woman’s sexuality. Even a decade ago when they might have thought, ‘But she’s a 50-year old actress – and cast a 27-year-old.’ [Now] there’s consideration for character and truth, and, I think, less fear.”
On her Childhood: “When my parents started you didn’t get paid to be an actor. My childhood was filled with witnessing the hardship of making a choice that was of consequence.”
