Laura Dern claims she was forced to drop out of UCLA after landing Blue Velvet role - and now the college teaches the David Lynch film: 'Pisses me off'

Laura Dern claims she was forced to drop out of UCLA after landing Blue Velvet role - and now the college teaches the David Lynch film: 'P****s me off' Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 19:43 EDT, 25 July 2024 | Updated: 19:48 EDT, 25 July 2024 e-mail View comments Laura Dern said she was forced to drop out of college after landing her breakthrough role in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet — and now it's being taught at the school.

Dern, 57, famously played detective's daughter Sandy Williams in the neo-noir mystery thriller that spawned a decades-long collaboration with Oscar nominee Lynch, 78. While appearing on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast this week, the actress, now 57, said she was enrolled at UCLA when she got the part back in 1985. 'I was 17, so excited to get into UCLA.

I was there for two days, and I had auditioned and got offered the role in Blue Velvet,' she told co-hosts Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson , as per PEOPLE . It was a major moment for Dern, who was totally 'ecstatic' after having 'worshipped' Lynch for years. Laura Dern, 57, said she was forced to drop out of college after landing her breakthrough role in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet — and now it's being taught at the school; seen in February Dern, 57, famously played Sandy Williams in the neo-noir mystery thriller that spawned a decades-long collaboration with Oscar nominee Lynch, 78 Read More Mindy Cohn was 'devastat.