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Laura Dern plugs "Marmee & Louisa" in interview about new film, "Little Women"

11/7/2019

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In the November issue of Vanity  Fair, Laura Dern describes reading Marmee & Louisa and My Heart Is Boundless in preparing to play “Marmee” in the new Little Women film, due out at Christmas.

Laura Dern calls Marmee & Louisa “a massive influence. You feel it as like a cord of the film, and that was an incredible experience...."

Dern explains, “Greta [Gerwig, the director] was determined for us to really spend time doing the research to find out who really was Marmee being Abigail, Louisa’s real mother. And so we really allowed a beautiful book of letters, called Marmee & Me, between Louisa and her mother, to be a massive influence. You feel it as like a cord of the film, and that was an incredible experience.... Marmee was an abolitionist, was one of America’s first feminists, was considered America’s first social worker and was a badass. And she was angry and frustrated and generous and an empath. And yes, feeding the hungry. And literally their home was on the underground railroad and she was hiding slaves in their kitchen...
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Note: Dern slightly confused the title but a google search of Marmee & Me leads right to Marmee & Louisa!
Here
’ s the link to the Vanity Fair interview:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/little-gold-men-laura-dern-interview
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John Myers
12/9/2019 04:27:06 pm

Great Cousin Eve...! Greta is who I had hoped would find your American Jezebel work as well.. she is from my city of Sacramento and a great director obviously.. lets hope someone that works with her looks into your Book on our mutual ancestor Anne Hutchinson...

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