{"id":13442,"date":"2024-08-27T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13442"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:22:20","slug":"laura-dern-dissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/27\/laura-dern-dissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dern Dissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/laura-dern-was-forced-to-quit-college-over-blue-velvet-3777863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laura Dern was forced to quit college over \u2018Blue Velvet\u2019: \u201cYou are no longer welcome\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pisses me off&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/author\/chris-edwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Velvet (8\/11) Movie CLIP - Sandy&#039;s Dream of Robins (1986) HD\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncnq2pu4PlE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Dern has revealed she was forced to drop out of college after landing the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch\u2019s 1986 film&nbsp;<em>Blue Velvet<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appearing on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IOivsLSnPdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;podcast, Dern remembered being told she would no longer be welcome at UCLA film school if she took the part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was 17, so excited to get into UCLA,\u201d Dern said. \u201cI was there for two days, and I had auditioned and got offered the role in Blue Velvet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean said she was \u201cecstatic\u201d about landing the role as she \u201cworshiped\u201d Lynch, who had already won an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/oscars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oscar<\/a>\u00a0for directing 1980\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Elephant Man<\/em>. However, when she went to ask to head of her college department about getting a leave of absence, she was told \u201cabsolutely not\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/laura-dern-was-forced-to-quit-college-over-blue-velvet-3777863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NME Laura Dern was forced to quit college over \u2018Blue Velvet\u2019: \u201cYou are no longer welcome\u201d &#8220;Pisses me off&#8221; By Chris Edwards Laura Dern has revealed she was forced to drop out of college after landing the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch\u2019s 1986 film&nbsp;Blue Velvet. Appearing on a recent episode of Ted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}