Laura Dern has revealed her university forced her to drop out after she secured a role in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet.
After Dern’s department head had read the Blue Velvet script he told her: “‘First of all, if you make this choice, you are no longer welcome at UCLA.
When Dern went to the head of her university department to request a leave of absence to take on the Blue Velvet role, she was told she could “absolutely not” have the time away from her studies.
I was there for two days, and I had auditioned and got offered the role in Blue Velvet.”