Laura Dern remembers her longtime collaborator and friend David Lynch on his 79th birth anniversary.
The Oscar winner, 57, took to Instagram on Monday with a salutary birthday tribute to the late filmmaker, who was announced dead at age 78 on January 16.
“Happy birthday, little thing,” the Oscar winner wrote in the caption of a photo of them together.
Dern added, “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”
Dern and Lynch had long collaborated when the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker first cast the 17-year-old actress in 1986 for a mystery thriller. blue velvet.
The director-actor duo reunited in the 1990s. wild heart and later for his experimental feature film inner empire in 2006 and its revival of the series in 2017 twin peaks.
Dern once credited Lynch with helping her avoid being typecast in movies.
“It was an incredible gift that a filmmaker who knows you would say,” he told Greta Gerwig in Inside the acting studio in 2019, adding with a Lynch impression: “’Now I want you to play the complete opposite of what you did last time.’”
Lynch also campaigned for Dern to earn an Oscar nomination in 2006 for her work on Inland Empire. People Magazine reported.
