Laura Dern

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q220901: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Blue Velvet (1986); Wild at Heart (1990); Rambling Rose (1991); Jurassic Park (1993); Inland Empire (2006); Big Little Lies (2017); Cold Pursuit (2019); Little Women (2019); Marriage Story (2019); Is This Thing On? (2025).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alien Resurrection (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Michael Crichton: 1 line

  1. unmapped (adapted) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Michael Crichton ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Wild at Heart (1990), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Wild at Heart (the host's read). Wild at Heart is a homage to the Wizard of Oz.
    “kind of a blanket homage to Wizard of Oz”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Anaconda (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripple effect) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read). Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave.
    “that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (misreading) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read). Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World.
    “Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read). The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them.
    “even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Reese Witherspoon: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Big Little Lies (2017), which they acted in: Big Little Lies ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): 1 line

  1. unmapped (quoted line) · through Blue Velvet (1986), which they acted in: Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet.
    “Hopper says that in blue velvet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Twister (1996): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (19) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Laura Dern → Little Women. Speaker prefers Dern in Little Women for her wild, sparkly, overflowing-with-passion mom energy.
    “I kind, I kind of prefer her in Little Women, which is a scorching take”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:25:26 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (award for the screenplay): Marriage Story → Laura Dern. Dern's win is really the Oscar the screenplay wants, delivered through the flashiest speech in the movie.
    “they're giving an Oscar to the screenplay, but they want to give the screenplay Oscar to someone else, so they're just giving it to Laura Dern”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:01:00 · Wesley Morris (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (better work): Laura Dern → Wild at Heart. Dern deserved Oscars for her more adventurous work (Rambling Rose, Wild at Heart, Inland Empire, Jurassic Park).
    “She should get like 6 Oscars for that.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:01:42 · Wesley Morris (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Laura Dern → Marriage Story. Dern is on Joe's ballot but none of the three would pick her to win; she's the Oscar frontrunner as a career-recognition win.
    “But none of us would pick her to win.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:25:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.