“Scorsese let me be an extra, sitting at the counter watching these amazing artists work together.”
Shortly afterward, Ladd recalled Dern telling her that she wanted to be an actress.
“I said no,” Ladd said.
Diane Ladd and Laura Dern; Laura Dern in ‘Marriage Story’.Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images; Everett Collection
“I dissuaded her.
I said, ‘No, honey, no, no, no.’
Look, be a lawyer, be a doctor.
“Some people say, ‘Never meet your heroes,'” Dern said during her Oscars acceptance speech.
“But sometimes if you’re blessed, you get them as your parents.”
Ladd was reportedly given a grim prognosis, but she defied the odds.
