And there is a shot at the end of the movie of Bette Davis holding a hatbox at the top of a staircase and something rolls out of that hatbox, and it is something that was clearly no longer an entire human Bruce Dern, but just the head of him. And I think my Grandma had forgotten that my father was involved in flashback as the young lover. Hush, Sweet Charlotte was playing and we're halfway into the movie. And I looked at her and felt I knew the emotion and the pain she was expressing in the scene, both very personal, both never discussed, but we just know each other so well.ĭiane Ladd, left, Bruce Dern and Laura Dern pose after all received stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in 2010.Īlthough when I was five or six, my Grandma and I were watching like a movie of the week and Hush. And he said, 'Cut!' and mom describes us pulling away and her looking in my eyes and realizing that she knew exactly what had brought up the emotion in me.

The camera rolls and David Lynch called 'Action!' and it's very emotional and I'm crying in her arms. She remembered me preparing for the scene at one end of the set and her at the other, both doing our work, both having trained separately as professionals, not engaged in that together, and then coming together to do this very emotional scene. My mom talked about the joy she had remembering the first time we worked together on Wild at Heart, and we had to do this very emotional scene.

Isabella Rossellini, left, David Lynch, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd laugh during a photocall for Wild at Heart at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. It moved me so much – the people in our most intimate relationships, how little we ask.' Things as seemingly mundane as favorite foods, favorite colors, favorite flowers that were just to pass the time. 'What shocked me as I would start to engage her in topics is how little I had asked. Most of us don't 'spill the beans,' until it's too late, Dern says. Thinking this was the last time they'd have together, the conversations were intimate and honest. Those conversations, which Laura recorded for herself and her children, are now a new book Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding).

To make the time more interesting and engaging, Dern interviewed her mother. So, every day – sometimes over Ladd's protestations – the two set out on a 15-minute walk. Ladd, who is also an actor, thought she had six months left to live - but the doctor said taking walks might help her increase her lung capacity. Nearly four years ago, Laura Dern's mother, Diane Ladd, was diagnosed with lung disease. They are pictured above in Los Angeles in 2015. Laura Dern, right, and her mother Diane Ladd have adapted a series of their conversations into the new book Honey, Baby, Mine.

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