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Actor Bruce Dern turns 90 years aged connected June 4. He’s celebrating early — pinch a travel to France for nan Cannes Film Festival. The double Oscar nominee will beryllium connected nan Croisette for nan world premiere of Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern, directed by Mike Mendez. It bows Wednesday successful nan festival’s official Cannes Classics section.
Before Dernsie headed to France, he and Mendez joined Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to talk nan project, which finds Dern successful afloat raconteur mode – and arsenic anyone who knows Dern tin show you, he’s 1 of Hollywood’s top storytellers. On nan pod, he tells america astir moving pinch John Wayne, Quentin Tarantino, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Alexander Payne, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis and more.
Dern and Mendez besides explicate what a “Dernsie” is and why nan word was coined by Jack Nicholson (it has to do pinch inventions connected group that only Bruce Dern tin do). Dern besides tells america astir nan 1 noted British character who did not respond good to an impromptu “Dernsie.”
The actor, who grew up successful a able and salient family successful Chicago, reveals what happened erstwhile he told his blue-blooded parents he wanted to beryllium an actor. He besides shares poignant feelings astir playing a Vietnam seasoned in Coming Home – 1 of nan 2 films that earned him Oscar nominations – moreover though he didn’t service successful that war. And he’s sewage a communicative aliases 2 astir his daughter, Oscar victor Laura Dern, and his erstwhile wife, Diane Ladd.
That’s connected nan caller section of Doc Talk hosted by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s elder documentary editor. The pod is simply a accumulation of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
Listen to nan section supra aliases connected awesome podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple.
