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Laura Speaking
if there’s an internal aspect to the
idea of feeling recognized then I would
say I’m figuring that out right now
the outside perception was always
confusing to me like I was their
daughter or his girlfriend or you know
their mom or you know like there are all
the labels or you know a sex siren or
the girl next door the blind girl from
the thing or the dinosaur lady or the
vet and you know or David Lynch’s Muse
or and you just keep allowing labels
aren’t you the lady who put her in
boobers on it but you have all these
labels and you don’t feel connection to
them if you’re lucky
I am
about marriage story the Noah Baumbach
film it was an amazing thing that I’ve
rarely gotten to do to consider fashion
as a Power Move knowing I both met
several very high-powered LA based
family lawyers and there was a
commonality in how attire was used by
women I think the only thing we knew is
that we had to go to Christian Louboutin
because she would never not be in his
shoes that’s part of the story the
physicality of always showing arm and
breasts and all I don’t know if you
noticed but she all is almost all the
time touching herself which is an
interesting strategy I love the idea of
how a woman in this position would
decide to meet the bully on his level
and say it’s time for a street fight and
again it’s the the design itself I
wanted to be able to like you know take
her jacket off to kind of reveal herself
as the way she’s going to bully this guy
and claim the space and win the case I
did not have to like her I did not so
the mere nature of a divorce lawyer is
is a really tricky thing to like what do
you like a character or not I always
have to find a way in to empathize with
how they got there well a beautiful day
to get to talk about David Lynch because
I’m high from the experience last night
of giving David Lynch his Academy Award
it was really an emotional and
extraordinary to reminisce on being a
year old and starting my journey with
him of course you know gives me the most
fun radical brilliantly designed look
character traits dialog just I mean it’s
the great experience of my
getting to work with him you know over
these years and such radically different
characters my mom’s more radical than me
and in my favorite story of David Lynch
is he taught my son to make his first
cappuccino and they were making
cappuccinos together and I was sitting
at his kitchen table at the time he was
probably and he said so David I you
know I haven’t gotten to see your movies
with my mom and he was like oh yeah does
she want you to wait and he said yeah I
think she thinks you know that I
shouldn’t see them I wanted to see wild
at heart but is that to she’s like no no
you can’t see that is that too sassy and
he said well I mean it’s sassy but you
can’t see that till you’re why
because of my mom and he goes oh it’s
not seeing your mother I’m worried about
it’s you seeing your grandmother that
I’m worried about
and and it was that moment that I was
like oh right that woman who like paints
her face with lipstick is somebody’s
grandma
what is your karaoke song when we were
working on wild at heart Nick Cage and I
deemed it I got you babe we found like
some Club in LA and we went and we
recorded it we dressed we went full-on
we went to a thrift shop before and we
full-on did it Cherokee people oh for
sure midriff I found long feather
earrings and kind of white lipstick and
did the full very straight long black
wig and I think for sure I found a
headband
we have a picture somewhere we would
dress together like we dressed matching
for our premiere we coordinated and
dressed in can with a designer kind of
matching us we were taking sailor and
Lula to the full degree practical things
scare the hell out of me and I I was
told at a young age that I was such a
sponge and that this might be a really
good quality if I was going to go into
the arts but really challenging in
relation
in terms of knowing what is yours and
what is someone else’s so all my fears
are the people I love like I my father
is terrified of snakes my stepmothers
terrified of spiders and my mother’s
terrified of great white sharks I got it
all I didn’t even know I had it and then
they just gave it to me and I was like
oh okay that’s the thing you got to be
terrified of I spend a lot of time in
terror and I blame Steven Spielberg
every day for it oh yeah well and I did
became a great swimmer because of that
terror so there you go
