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Laura Dern’s College Forced Her to Drop Out Over ‘Blue Velvet’ and Called Her ‘Insane’ for Giving Up Her Education; Now the School Teaches the Film: ‘Pisses Me Off’
Laura Dern had to drop out of UCLA because the college refused to let her take time off to film "Blue Velvet."
Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast(via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she won the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece “ Blue Velvet.” While Dern had already appeared in films such as “Mask,” it was “Blue Velvet” that served as her acting breakthrough and kicked off a career-spanning collaboration with Lynch. The department head was able to read the “Blue Velvet” script, and Dern remembered being called into his office and being told: “First of all, if you make this choice, you are no longer welcome at UCLA. “Obviously, it was an incredibly shocking script,” Dern admitted before revealing: “I will just end by saying after my two days, today, if you want to get a masters in film at that school, when you write a thesis there are three movies you are required to study.
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