Eventually I figured it out: Dern wasn’t actually eavesdropping on anyone. “You can tell your editor that instead of watching my work, we did a scene,” Dern said. Bruce Dern and Ladd studied at the Actors Studio, and Laura took classes at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute as a 9-year-old. Edward Zwick told me a story about Dern playing a scene with her “Trial by Fire” co-star, Jack O’Connell. It was an intense scene for O’Connell, and Dern, even though she was off-camera, was “transcendent,” giving him everything he needed to perform.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2019 09:00 UTC