So I see a longer path for her, but ultimately a more rewarding one.” You name a movie with a young girl in the last five years” - Flashdance, Pretty in Pink - “and I’m sure I was up for it.” Said her costar Williams, quite prophetically, “She’s not as salable a persona as some of these other young actresses. “People now tell me it’s a good thing I stayed away from teen films,” Dern mused in the profile. Those were the breaks for a girl a little too off-kilter to be in the Brat Pack. It was a decidedly adult role for a young actress, but that wasn’t out of character for Dern she’d already played a blind teenager in the tearjerker Mask and a girl whose teacher comes on to her in, well, Teachers. Dern played Connie, a troubled, sexually curious 15-year-old who gets involved with an older man, played by Treat Williams. Then 19 years old, Dern - the willowy, blond daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd - was promoting Smooth Talk, a coming-of-age drama adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. A bold proclamation, from a May 4, 1986, New York Times headline: “LAURA DERN IS A TEEN-AGER TO TAKE SERIOUSLY.” Trending Questions What are uses of constellation? How far is six blocks away? How many light years away is hadar from earth? What would change about life on earth if earth was as far away as Jupiter from the sun? Is the sun just an ordinary star? When farther a star is away from Earth the more it is what? Is Earth the closest to the sun during the month of January.? Do we see the universe now as it existed in the past? What are Any particular geographical spot on earth.
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