Longtime Crush

I have to admit that I’ve always enjoyed Bruce Dern’s little girl Laura in her movies.  She’s not pretty in the traditional Hollywood sense (whatever that is), but she’s rather sexy.

And I loved her in Rambling Rose:

Now, at an advanced age (for Hollywood) she gets to play with the hotties:

Laura Dern has admitted she felt ‘so lucky’ to be able to perform a racy sex scene with younger costar Liam Hemsworth in their new movie Lonely Planet.

The romantic drama, which landed on Netflix on October 11, sees Dern’s character Katherine Loewe, a successful and respected writer, travel to a Moroccan resort to finish her latest literary novel – which is where she meets Hemsworth’s character Owen Brophy.

New Wife and I watched Lonely Planet  the other night, and it was quite enjoyable despite its obvious unreality (when was a rom-com ever realistic, anyway?), because in no small part Laura’s performance made it credible.  (And the “racy sex scene”?  Compared to some of her other efforts — e.g. her bedtime activities with Nicholas Cage in Wild At Heart — it was brief, and unlikely to cause Hemsworth’s family much embarrassment.)

Anyway, here’s Laura over the years:

And she’s now 57?

Lovely.