The American actress, who starred in four films by the director who died on January 16, conveyed her love to him and expressed her grief in a publication on her social networks.
He would have celebrated his 79th birthday on January 20. The death of director David Lynch on January 16, at the helm ofElephant Man or the series Twin Peaks in the 1990s, left a big void in the world of cinema and provoked a storm of reactions in Hollywood in recent days. Among them, that of the American actress Laura Dern, who owes the filmmaker the first significant role of her career in Blue Velvet in 1986.
On his social networks, one of the director’s muses shared his sadness, but also wished him a « Happy birthday ». « I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life »wrote Laura Dern in a short message accompanied by a photo in which we see her, with a smile full of admiration and tenderness, looking straight into her friend’s eyes.
Palme d’Or in Cannes with Sailor et Lula
The American actress was catapulted to film stardom in the 1980s, when David Lynch cast her in her first title role in the film Sailor et Lula (1990) alongside the famous Nicolas Cage. His performance, as well as the director’s work, was rewarded with a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that same year. Laura Dern then appeared a third time alongside the American director in the drama Inland Empire in 2006, then a fourth and final time in 2017 with the series Twin Peaks : The Return.
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His Hollywood colleagues did not fail to also pay a final tribute to David Lynch. Steven Spielberg, for example, praised a “ a visionary and dreamer artist, [à la] voice so original and unique », while his colleague Ron Howard described him as« man full of grace ». For his part, James Gunn cited him as a source of inspiration. Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, wrote a moving message on social networks: “ I owe my entire career, and really my life, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with an ocean of creation welling up within him. » And Lara Flynn Boyle, Kyle MacLachlan’s co-star in the cult 1990s series, said goodbye “to the Willy Wonka of directing”.
