Laura Dern In HBO’s The Tale: A Magisterial, Haunting Performance That The Actor Makes It Look Effortless
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Laura Dern portrays the role of a child sexual abuse survivor in The Tale with a subtlety and easy confidence. For a movie that is disconcerting, it is also hard to look away. And that is mostly thanks to the actor in what is probably a career-best performance.
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In 2020, Laura Dern was bestowed with an Oscar for her performance in Marriage Story; this was her third nomination. It was widely felt that the honour was long overdue for Dern, who turns 55 today, has been an acting powerhouse for decades.
Indeed, that claim is not far off the mark, as the career of this Los Angeles native is peppered with forceful yet disciplined performances. Born to actor parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, she rose to fame in 1980s with films like Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
It was Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park that made her a globally known name. She will reprise the role of Dr Ellie Sattler in the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion. Needless to say, in her long and varied career, it is hard to single out any one performance of hers as the best, but in my opinion it is a relatively lesser known project called The Tale.