Everyone knows her today: Do you know who plays this little girl?

American actress Laura Dern, who was discovered in the late 80s by director David Lynch, who directed her four times, is still a Hollywood star known worldwide.

Mainly thanks to his role as paleobotanist Eli Sattler in Steven Spielberg’s famous Jurassic Park (he will also return to his character twice). Most recently, in Marriage Story, who gave an excellent performance that won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2020.

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to Isla Nublar

But long before she found herself in the jungles of Isla Nublar and experienced the fame she enjoys today, even though both of her parents (Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd) were actors before her, Laura Dern took her first steps in Hollywood much more modestly. roles.

Just 50 years ago, when she was only 6 years old, the future actress discovered the world of cinema by playing a simple little girl who sat at the counter of a drive-in and enjoyed an ice cream without saying a word. If this role was very secondary, the project was much less so, since it was the comedy-drama Alice Is Not Here Anymore, directed by none other than Martin Scorsese.

As he said many years later Kelly and Mark on the set of the show LiveLaura Dern inherited this job to see her mother, who was in the movie.

“I ate 19 ice cream cones.”

“I visited my mother over the summer holidays, she was in ‘Alice No More,’ a Martin Scorsese movie. And I think she did me a favor because I was probably sitting in the corner.”– Laura Dern confided.

“They had to do 19 shots, so I ate 19 ice cream cones. (…) I didn’t know I was listening with enthusiasm, but I heard him turn to my mom and say, “He ate 19 ice creams without getting sick. This girl will become an actress’.”

Excited by this first experience and at such a young age being able to see Kris Kristofferson and Ellen Burstyn exchange kisses under the direction of the great Martin Scorsese, Laura Dern had to wait a few years before returning to film. set.

In 1981, we were able to see her in the casting of the musical Ladies and Gentlemen, five years before she played one of the main roles in David Lynch’s famous Blue Velvet.

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