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Laura Dern claims she was forced to drop out of UCLA after landing Blue Velvet role - and now the college teaches the David Lynch film: 'P****s me off'


Laura Dern said she was forced to drop out of college after landing her breakthrough role in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet - and now it's being taught at the school.

Laura Dern, 57, said she was forced to drop out of college after landing her breakthrough role in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet — and now it's being taught at the school; seen in February 'The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man (Kyle MacLachlan) on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child,' reads the film's official description. At that time, the writer-director had already garnered critical acclaim for films like The Elephant Man (1980), which earned him his first-ever Oscar noms, and the surrealist horror flick Eraserhead (1977); Lynch seen in 2017

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