Laura Dern’s College Forced Her to Drop Out Over ‘Blue Velvet’ and Called Her ‘Insane’ for Giving Up Her Education; Now the School Teaches the Film: ‘Pisses Me Off’

Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast (via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she won the role of Sandy Williams in David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece “Blue Velvet.” While Dern had already appeared in films such […]
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