#laura-dern

#laura-dern

Laura Dern has reflected on the "crazy" and "incredible" experience of helping Ellen DeGeneres make queer history with her coming out scene on her '90s sitcom Ellen. In April 1997, Marriage Story actress and LGBTQ+ icon Laura Dern joined forces with DeGeneres and other industry heavyweights, including Oprah Winfrey and Demi Moore, for a revelatory, two-part episode of DeGeneres' comedy show Ellen. During the episode, entitled "The Puppy Episode", DeGeneres character Ellen Morgan, who was based on the former talk show host, realised that she is a lesbain after connecting with the colleague of a friend. The colleague, named Susan, was played by Dern.

Day one, when we were supposed to hear a distant, faint sound that could be the T-Rex, and we all had to listen to the sound at the same moment, Sir Richard Attenborough [who played park creator John Hammond] said, 'We're going to need a cue of some kind, there has to be something ominous about something in the distance and we're not sure we heard it,' and Steven said, 'Don't worry, don't worry,'

Will Arnett uses stand-up comedy as therapy for his divorce from Laura Dern in the new dramedy "Is This Thing On?," directed by Bradley Cooper. It's a funny take on a topic that doesn't sound funny at first blush: divorce that's led by a superstar cast and Eyewitness News Entertainment Reporter calls the chemistry between Arnett and Dern 'perfection.' She sat down with them to talk about the making of the movie.

Laura Dern's starred in stories of marital disaster before - from her portrayal of a no-holds-barreddivorce lawyer in Marriage Story to her turn as a woman on the brink of a marriage breakdown in Big Little Lies. But her new film, Is This Thing On? (out Dec. 19), offers a brighter take on splitsville. Directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, the movie follows Tess (Dern) and Alex (Will Arnett, also the film's co-writer), parents navigating the beginning of a separation.