Laura Dern Tells What Advice Martin Scorsese Gave Her About Acting

Laura Dern describes her role in Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the start of her career. It involved ice cream and an iron stomach.

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[nathanlawrence]

I love Laura Dern she's great. At first I thought her advice here was, "Just Get Lucky.. I Did!." But I think she is also really saying surround yourself with talented people.. and continue creating and eventually you will be where you want to be

[Walperion_Music]

Her best work was deffo "The Enlightened".
If you haven't watched it - it's awesome!

Because she was the leading role there and could open her wings to tthe fullest!

[beflygelt]

quite a luxury to be so picky. Interesting.. It definitely payed out for her. Excited to see her in the new Twin Peaks

[lochricolife]

She was great in October Sky ... And the other movie, the rabbit farm movie

[ivan]

can someone please put her in the next jurassic park film with Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum. We desperately need them back!!

[SFoureman]

Thank God, for all of us, her career didn't go down the Brat Pack tube!

She comes from a far more quality stock than that.

[cappyjones]

Great example of a good looking older woman allowing herself to age without chopping her face all to shite. I have a major crush on her!

[alexispapageorgiou]

Mommy and Daddy cannot get you to the top. They might give you a little push but that's about it. I love art.

[kymberlypray]

✔️ Wildly talented
✔️ Gorgeous
✔️ Grounded

In absence of her ability and hard-work, connections were a non-entity.

[Scriptease]

She didn't get the Brat Pack films, but most of them no longer have careers.

[LOUBNAFILLE]

minded.."
Waou, her vocabulary is so underrated, like cate blanchett, i like people talking with the best picking word of their mind.

[schrire]

“You’re building a body of work…don’t stop doing that” How is that “advice”? Every actor wants to work and it’s almost never their choice when a job is on offer.

[aequinozio]

sorry I didn’t get what ‘advice’ Scorsese gave her...

[charliem.p.]

You provoke your luck though. If she wasn't talented she would have been picked for the more indie movies.

Ok, I just wanted to ask someone who knows English better than I do: I've noticed a lot of women call themselves "actor" and not "actress". Is the word "actress" pejorative in English?

[jackreed]

She was lucky.... her mum and dad were hollywood actors.

[corneliuspraeda]

Then Disney called, told her they wanted her to play a lousy character but threw a obscene amount of money at her, and she said "Eh, why not?".

[joske]

Unfortunatly she hasent done anything besides Jurassic Park that anyone remembers.