Laura Dern remembers her longtime collaborator and friend David Lynch on his 79th birthday.
The Oscar winner, 57, took to Instagram on Monday with a wholesome birthday tribute to the late filmmaker, who was announced dead at the age of 78 on January 16.
“Happy birthday treat,” the Oscar winner captioned a photo of them together.
Dern added, “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”
Dern and Lynch were longtime collaborators when the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker first cast the then-17-year-old actress in the 1986 mystery thriller Blue velvet.
The director-actor duo then reunited in the 1990s Wild heart and later for his experimental features Inland Kingdom in 2006 and his revival of the series in 2017 Twin Peaks.
Dern once credited Lynch with helping her avoid being typecast in films.
“It was a great gift, as a filmmaker who knows you would say,” she told Greta Gerwig Inside the acting studio in 2019, adding with an impression of Lynch: “‘Now I want you to play the opposite of what you did last time.’
Lynch also campaigned for Dern to earn an Oscar nomination in 2006 for her work in Inland Empire, People Magazine reported.
