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.

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 ...

The film "Blue Velvet" will be screened at Thalian Hall to mark the 40th anniversary of its release. Filmed in Wilmington in 1985, the movie cemented director David Lynch's legendary status. Many ...

David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced.

And yet…it was gripping. In its walls-of-sanity-closing-in-on-you way, it told a story that had you hanging on every hallucinatory twist. “Eraserhead,” in New ...

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,” ...