"Blue Velvet" remains a cult classic and somewhat controversial film from offbeat director David Lynch, and the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini, is correcting some of the negativity connected to it.

She told the "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast that her course leaders were unsupportive. Dern said the former head of UCLA's film department said it was "insane" to drop out for the film.

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

When the news dropped Thursday that Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch had died at the age of 78, one very predictable thing was unleashed on social media: Memories of Lynch's time in ...

Considering the constant stream of actresses speaking out about the ways they were made to feel uncomfortable and exploited by male directors during past shoots, it’s nice to hear at least one account ...

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” ...

You may also recognize her from “Blue Velvet,” in which she played Mrs. Beaumont, or her 44-episode run on “Dallas” in the ...