There’s a word making the rounds of Hollywood that you may not have heard: ‘Dernaissance’.
Laura Dern, the fabulous 52-year-old actress descended from Tinseltown royalty, is having a moment – and she intends to make the most of every second.
Lauded for her razor-sharp portrayal of mean Monterey mum Renata in hit TV show Big Little Lies, Laura, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, is enjoying the most fruitful period of her career, and will soon be gracing the big screen as Marmee in the upcoming movie version of Little Women.
“I feel the fire in me,” she says. “It’s not just that we’re getting work,” she adds, referring also to her female contemporaries and friends, including Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, “it’s that we’re playing complicated,…
