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Who better to honorLaura Dernthan the directors who just spent a year directing her?
Noah and I have been looking for an excuse to wear our Laura Dern sweaters.
Luckily this came along, Gerwig began.
The duo was in a pair of matching sweaters adorned with Derns face.
its too confusing to answer.
Behold Gretas speech, as read by Noah:
Thank you, Greta.
Laura Dern is my girl crush dream.
I first became aware of her when I was an awkward young teenage girl.
I saw her inCitizen Ruthand I couldnt believe it.
When I saw her inJurassic Park, I didnt even know she was the same person.
Thats how much she was able to transform from role to role.
I fell deeper in love with her because of it.
I loved her even more than I loved Leonardo DiCaprio, who I sincerely believed I would marry.
I got to see in person that what she does is absolutely singular and inimitable and totally hers.
Getting to work with her was better than the dream of getting to work with her.
And again, incredibly, there was Laura Dern transformed.
Its sound and silence.
The 17-year-old, however, went out and got a hoop earring to match Kyle MacLachlans.
Laura Dern and I are the same age, but I grew up with her.
My emotional memory of that performance is as if music and light beamed out of her body.
My mental images of her performances are like the way I remember dreams or songs.
Laura doesnt so much as invade and conquer it.
Its physical, its visceral, its emotional, its brilliant.
Last spring when Greta first showed meLittle Women, I had been living with Laura the divorce lawyer.
This wasnt the woman I knew anymore.
I felt like I was discovering Laura Dern all over again.
Laura is a true artist.
Again, she was unaware of this.
Come on.Laura Dern, welove you, too.
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