At the start of her film career, Laura Dern took a big risk, quitting college to star in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The Big Little Lies star recalled she learned she had landed the role of Sandy ...

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.

"Blue Velvet" remains a cult classic and somewhat controversial film from offbeat director David Lynch, and the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini, is correcting some of the negativity connected to it.

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

And yet…it was gripping. In its walls-of-sanity-closing-in-on-you way, it told a story that had you hanging on every hallucinatory twist. “Eraserhead,” in New ...

One of the most infamous reviews for David Lynch‘s “Blue Velvet” to publish when the film opened in 1986 came courtesy of Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star. Then the most prominent critic in ...

Thirty-eight years after the late critic's one-star review, the actress has expressed how "surprised" she was by the allegation, as she chose to portray the abused character. By Tatiana Tenreyro ...