Laura Dern remembers her longtime collaborator and friend David Lynch on his 79th birthday.
The Oscar-winning actor, 57, took to Instagram on Monday with a birthday tribute to the late filmmaker, who was announced to have died at age 78 on January 16.
“Happy birthday, treat,” the Oscar winner captioned a photo of them together.
Dern added: “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”
Dern and Lynch were longtime collaborators since the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker first cast the then-17-year-old actress in 1986 for a mystery thriller. Blue velvet.
The director-actor duo then reunited for 1990’s wild heart and later for his experimental feature film Inner Empire in 2006 and its revival of the series in 2017 Twin Peaks.
Dern once thanked Lynch for helping her avoid being typecast in films.
“It was an incredible gift that a filmmaker who knows you would say,” she told Greta Gerwig on Inside the actors’ studio in 2019, adding with a Lynch impression: “Now I want you to play the complete opposite of what you did last time. »
Lynch also campaigned for Dern to get an Oscar nomination in 2006 for his work in Inland Empire, People Magazine reported.
