She told the "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast that her course leaders were unsupportive. Dern said the former head of UCLA's film department said it was "insane" to drop out for the film.

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.

Acclaimed, unsettling movie shot in Wilmington in 1985 screens Jan. 16 at Thalian Hall for the 40th anniversary of its ...

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of films and shows including "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at the age of ...

Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast (via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she ...

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” ...