There were times when everybody was doing well, and then the cars were nicer and the gifts were better.That Time When is Interview ’s weekly trip through the pop-cultural space-time continuum, where we return to some of the most overlooked moments from issues past. “There were times when I shared a room with my mother, and there were times when I had my own big room.
“We always had a roof over our heads and nice clothes, but life fluctuated as acting careers do,” Dern says.
Such an unusual upbringing offered Dern a number of opportunities to observe up close many lessons about the real lives of actors. Raised primarily by Ladd and her maternal grandmother, Mary, Dern spent a significant part of her childhood on her parents’ various movie sets. Diane Ladd came from a large Southern family that included, among other notables, the playwright Tennessee Williams, who helped Ladd get her first acting job. Bruce Dern comes from aristocratic forebears: His uncle was poet Archibald MacLeish, and his grandfather was George Dern, secretary of war under Franklin D. “I think Laura’s almost frighteningly well adjusted, especially considering the world she grew up in” says Nicolas Cage, who became a close pal during the making of Wild at Heart.īoth sides of Dern’s family have rather illustrious pasts.
You’ve never seen them in the same room at the same time, have you?” As she paces the store, Dern – whose own musical favorites include Robert Plant and Kate Bush – goes on to explain that she and Moon Zappa are good friends and that they’ve decided that Bruce Dern is also the same man as Frank Zappa.Ĭlearly, Dern hasn’t exactly had your typical upbringing. “Alice Cooper and Bruce Dern are the same man! I’m telling you. “LOOK AT THIS,” DERN SQUEALS WITH DELIGHT AS SHE bounces happily through the cassette section at the Tower store on Sunset Boulevard, where she’s come to find music to play on the set of The Gift.
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