“People now tell me it’s a good thing I stayed away from teen films,” Dern mused in the profile. Those were the breaks for a girl a little too off-kilter to be in the Brat Pack. It was a decidedly adult role for a young actress, but that wasn’t out of character for Dern she’d already played a blind teenager in the tearjerker Mask and a girl whose teacher comes on to her in, well, Teachers. Dern played Connie, a troubled, sexually curious 15-year-old who gets involved with an older man, played by Treat Williams.
Then 19 years old, Dern - the willowy, blond daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd - was promoting Smooth Talk, a coming-of-age drama adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. A bold proclamation, from a May 4, 1986, New York Times headline: “LAURA DERN IS A TEEN-AGER TO TAKE SERIOUSLY.”
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