Laura Dern shares emotional tribute to David Lynch on what would have been director’s 79th birthday
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The actor collaborated with Lynch on numerous projects after starring in ‘Blue Velvet’ in the 1980s. Laura Dern has reacted to the death of David Lynch in an emotional post celebrating what would have been the director’s 79th birthday. Lynch, the much celebrated director of Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and The Elephant Man died on 15 January, aged 78.
Dern was one of Lynch’s most frequent collaborators with the director first casting Dern in his 1986 noir-horror Blue Velvet when she was just 17 years old. Lynch and Dern then reunited in 1990 for Wild Heart, which starred the Marriage Story actor and Nicolas Cage as a young couple on the run from their controlling families and a group of hit men.
The star also appeared in Lynch’s 2006 feature Inland Empire, for which he famously campaigned for Dern to be nominated for an Oscar by sitting on a street corner with a live cow in Los Angeles. Dern also featured in Lynch’s 2017 revival of Twin Peaks, which The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey called a “fitting end to TV’s greatest treasure”.
Sharing a photo of herself and Lynch engaged in conversation to Instagram, Dern wrote: “Happy birthday, tidbit. I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”. In the wake of his death, numerous tributes have been paid to Lynch by those who worked with him closely, including Naomi Watts, Kyle MacLachlan, Nicolas Cage, Madchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle.
