Laura Dern blames ten year old Ellen kiss for career backlash

Monsters & Critics ^ | April 24, 2007 | Stone Martindale

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Laura Dern blames ten year old Ellen kiss for career backlash

By Stone Martindale

Apr 24, 2007, 16:06 GMT

Laura Dern blames her lack of work on a ten year old kiss with Ellen DeGeneres on television.

CNN reports that ten years after the smooch, Dern appeared with Ellen on Monday on DeGeneres' syndicated talk show to reflect on the "aftermath."

DeGeneres, 49, came out of the closet in real life while her sitcom character's coming-out episode aired too, Dern kissed the comedian during a guest shot on the ABC series as Ellen's "lesbian love interest."

Dern claimed to Ellen "she couldn't get an acting job for more than a year afterward."

"There was certainly backlash, I guess, (that) we all felt from it," she told DeGeneres, who said she "was sorry" and "had no idea" that Dern was toast in Tinseltown.

Her career in the deep freezer was "awfully terrifying," recalled Dern, who said she's grateful for the "extraordinary experience and opportunity" to be a part of the historic "out" episode, which also featured Oprah Winfrey, Demi Moore and Melissa Etheridge.

[DogByte6RER]

I still remember when after this Ellen Degenerate episode aired, VP Al Gore trumpeted in the media how the show "forced" Americans to deal with homosexuality. Sorry Al Gore, it shouldn't be up to you or anybody else to "force" America to deal with any kind of weird and bizarre sexual behavior.

[MeanWestTexan]

Never heard of her.

[DManA]

Didn’t seem to hurt Degenerate. Coming out seems to have made her career

[spikeytx86]

Funny Laura, It didn’t seem to hurt Ellen.

[NinoFan]

Her career was never that great to begin with. She did look cute in Jurassic Park though, LOL.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, this is a strong reminder that actions have consequences. My sympathy for Ms. Dern is negligable.

[Larry Lucido]

If they were hot, there would have been no backlash.

[Disturbin]

Has she done anything since Blue Velvet?

[evad]

Jurassic Park

[greyfoxx39]

Laura Dern has been in some real stinkers, and doesn’t have a lot going for her in personality or looks...poor think, lost Billy Bob Thornton to Angeline Jolie and hasn’t been the same since.

[Oberon]

Now that’s a...[ahem]...a Dern shame.

[MeanWestTexan]

“She did look cute in Jurassic Park though.”

Oh, that’s who this is.

I’m thinking she doesn’t have much of a carreer because she is neither a stiking beauty, nor a particularly good actress.

Just another skinny faux-blond. Lots of those in L.A.

[EyeGuy]

You mean her fellow enlightened, inclusive LIBERALS won’t hire her after a lesbian scene?

McCarthyism mythology redux.

[Dumpster Baby]

She was half the fun in Jurassic Park.

[beeber]

Bruce Dern:

"Jack Nicholson stole my career!"

[FormerLib]

I hate to break this to you Laura, but you were never that good of an actress. When your looks started to go, there just wasn’t anything there to hold people’s interest.

[happygrl]

Probably because she spent the last ten years bouncing from man to man in a series of highly publicized relationships, then settling on Ben Harper (already married) and stealing him from his wife.

My guess is that she is not aging well.

[jimfree]

Must have been a backlash against Laura’s acting.

[scan58]

Another Lynch movie, “Wild at Heart” a few years after “Blue Velvet”. She seems to do well in those.

[USMCWife6869]

Wasn’t she another one of Angelina Jolie’s “victims”. Was she the one Jolie got Billy Bob from?