EXCLUSIVE: Sitting in a London resort days after Nicole Kidman and Keith City’s shock cut up after nearly 20 years of marriage, Laura Dern can not help however gush about her shut buddy.
The actress, who labored alongside Kidman on TV drama Large Little Lies labelled her Australian co-star “the best human ever”.
“She’s one in every of my closest pals, as is Naomi Watts, and the truth that I acquired each these Aussies – and Hugh Jackman! – three of my favorite folks and greatest pals in life, I am an enormous fan,” Dern tells 9.com.au of getting Australian pals.
Dern’s starred alongside Naomi Watts a number of occasions – in films We Do not Dwell Right here Anymore (2004), Inland Empire (2006) and the 2017 reboot of TV drama Twin Peaks.
She additionally starred reverse Hugh Jackman in 2022’s The Son, to not point out working reverse Liam Hemsworth in rom-com Lonely Planet in 2024.
“And you’ve got that New Zealander Sam Neill, who additionally spends a lot time in Australia,” she provides of her one-time Jurassic Park co-star.
“I simply like it, I like it after I’m there.”
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As star of the brand new film Is This Factor On? – based mostly loosely on the lifetime of British comic John Bishop turning to face up as his marriage fell aside, starring Will Arnett and directed by Bradley Cooper – Dern raved about Australians and their sense of humour.
And the 58-year-old would know, not simply having labored alongside quite a lot of Aussies and Kiwis in her lengthy and illustrious profession, however spending loads of time Down Below too.
“Being from Santa Monica, California, after I’m in Sydney, I really feel like I am residence,” Dern says.
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“It feels so near it, it has such a way of place to me.
“The daddy of my youngsters, Ben Harper, has toured a lot there, so I spent a lot time even when our youngsters had been little there.
“The surf is superb. I’ll have realized to surf in Byron [Bay], and Jaws is my favorite and the scariest film of all time, so I am simply letting you already know it was actually terrifying to study to surf there, however superb.
“Oh my god, the seashores!”
Dern guarantees she’s going to return to our shores for extra browsing quickly.
“I am going to include Nic,” she says.
“I am going to make her take me.”
Is This Factor On? is in cinemas round Australia now.
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