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After a strike-related delay, the Environmental Media Association held its 33rd annual awards gala on Saturday, recognizing Hollywood productions for their sustainability efforts both onscreen and behind the scenes. Avatar: The Way of Water, Extrapolations, Unstable and documentary Common Ground were among the night’s winners, with Laura Dern also being recognized with the EMA Ongoing Commitment Award for her activism in the fight against climate change. At the event, held at Los Angeles’ Sunset Las…

Big Little Lies besties Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are one Hollywood friendship that we all want to be part of, and their hilarious holiday posts are only adding more fuel to the fire. The Oscar-winning actresses—who first got close while playing daughter and mother in Wild, the 2014 film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir— were seen sporting matching Christmas-party fits in several funny snaps that Witherspoon posted to her Instagram page on Wednesday, December 20. The social media post included two photos of…

Early-birds have already screened The Color Purple, the upcoming musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name, the subsequent 1985 film by Steven Spielberg (which featured one of Whoopi Goldberg’s best performances as well as Oprah Winfrey in a career-defining role) and the 2005 Broadway production. And among those lucky first-watch moviegoers are some household names like Gwyneth Paltrow and Laura Dern.Most movie lovers won't be able to see Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and…

Ours was a family that got shit done. My grandfather was America’s Secretary of War, previously the governor of Utah. My dad’s law partner – my godfather – ran for the presidency, twice. Every week important people joined us at dinner. What I saw put me off politics for life.At 14, my parents sent me to a boarding school in New England. My protest was the longest conversation I ever had with my father, and it only lasted 20 minutes. Later, I realised they just wanted me out of the way.I’ve been a runner since the age of…

Laura Dern is extremely well-known for her prolific work in massive movies like Jurassic Park and Oscar-winning films like Marriage Story. However, these days instead of being asked for photos or autographs for her work in these films, she’s being recognized by some for a small cameo she made in one of Taylor Swift’s music videos. And what’s even better about all of this, is she had an interaction with said Swiftie at Jurassic Park. Dern was on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote her movie The Son, which is on the 2023 movie…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLaura Dern has shared a surprising fan interaction that occurred at a Jurassic Park filming site.The actor is known to many for her work as palaeobotanist Dr Ellie Satler in the Nineties films about dinosaurs coming to life at a theme park.However, in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday (5 January), the actor recalled a fan encounter in which she was recognised from…

When a role in a film requires nudity, many performers hesitate to take on the part. Can we use a body double? What if the revealing scene is captured online and becomes easily searchable? What will my parents think!? And imagine that the part in question doesn’t just call for showing, say, the top third of one’s buttocks. What if the script includes a sequence where a character dances fully naked in the rain? No nipple covers, no body stockings, no nothing. Yes, Emma Corrin found this very prospect “completely…

Taylor Swift unveiled the next visual for her song “Bejeweled“ from her new Midnights album. In what Swift has described as “music movie,” released to coincide with her new tenth studio album, Swift puts a twist on the fairytale of Cinderella in the new visual. Laura Dern, HAIM, Swift’s longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, Dita Von Teese and Pat McGrath starred alongside Swift in the visual. The music movie opens with Swift’s “House Wench Taylor,” cleaning the floor — with an instrumental of her…

After teasing that the upcoming visuals for songs from her new album Midnights would feature cameos, Taylor Swift revealed how she convinced Laura Dern to star in the movie for her song, “Bejeweled.” Ahead of her Midnights album’s debut, a teaser trailer of “secret projects” from Swift was released during Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. It was announced that Swift will release “Midnights music movies,” for which she will reteam with cinematographer Rina Yang, who worked with Swift on…

In the original Jurassic Park, there are more iconic scenes than one movie can typically manage. But among them, it’s tough to forget Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm laying shirtless and sweaty midway through the movie. This moment was even once commemorated via a giant statue in London. But as Goldblum was recently asked about how the scene came to be, he got honest that Laura Dern actually had to remind him. Nearly thirty years following the release of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, fans of the 1993 movie are still…