'Even though he saw the movie in his head, he would just keep shooting along the way.' 'Every time he got an idea for a scene, we would shoot it, and he wrote the script through the course of this time,' Dern said.

Eventually, Lynch opted to produce the movie without the help of the studios, explaining it would be made slowly and on the cheap.ĭern quickly signed on to the project and became his traveling companion, co-producer and star.

You may be surprised.įresh off the success of the Oscar-nominated 'Mulholland Drive,' Lynch was filming individual scenes on a consumer digital video camera for his Web site and trying to find a way to break out of the straitjacket of Hollywood filmmaking. 7, 2006 — - If you happen to be driving through Hollywood these days and see a cow and an older man standing on a corner holding a large, glossy picture of Laura Dern, slow down and take a closer look. Eventually, Lynch opted to produce the movie without the help of the studios, explaining it would be made slowly and on.ĭec. 'He called me three years ago,' recalled Dern, 'and he said, 'I want to experiment.''įresh off the success of the Oscar-nominated 'Mulholland Drive,' Lynch was filming individual scenes on a consumer digital video camera for his Web site and trying to find a way to break out of the straitjacket of Hollywood filmmaking. The film - a three-hour meditation on Hollywood, identity and giant rabbits - is the latest collaboration between the notoriously enigmatic auteur and his frequent muse. More likely than not, that older man is famed film director David Lynch, and the sign is a grass-roots Oscar campaign for the star of his latest film, 'Inland Empire.' If you happen to be driving through Hollywood these days and see a cow and an older man standing on a corner holding a large, glossy picture of Laura Dern, slow down and take a closer look. Laura Dern and David Lynch Still 'Wild at Heart'

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