""You know, it's interesting: What they think you want to explore as a female actor is so bizarre. Like to explore sexuality at 20 in my case meant, 'Tell me who you want me to be, or what you think is sexy or pretty, and I'll try to mimic that in a film.'""
""But at 50, it's like, 'This is what's interesting. This is what's sexy. That's what's unattractive. This is what feels human.' Vulnerability is sexuality.""
""Someone told me I was brave for being willing to age on screen to be myself at every age and not hide the process of aging, which should be empowering and beautiful.""
""We all know what it's like to be a kid, but we don't know how to grow old. And we don't know how to find community around it, and how to talk about our fear of disease, of losing life, of losing loved ones.""
Laura Dern emphasizes that aging has allowed her to understand her own identity and sexuality, moving away from societal expectations. At 50, she finds vulnerability to be a form of sexuality. She expresses a desire for Hollywood to embrace stories about aging, noting that European cinema portrays older actors as attractive. Dern highlights the lack of narratives around growing older in Hollywood, despite it being a universal experience that deserves exploration and community support.
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