She starred with Nicolas Cage and her mother in David Lynch's Wild at Heart. When Laura was a child, she was an extra in the film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which costarred her mother and was directed by Martin Scorsese. This is not the first time Dern and Ladd have teamed up. It moved me so much – the people in our most intimate relationships, how little we ask."
Things as seemingly mundane as favorite foods, favorite colors, favorite flowers that were just to pass the time. "What shocked me as I would start to engage her in topics is how little I had asked. Most of us don't "spill the beans," until it's too late, Dern says. Thinking this was the last time they'd have together, the conversations were intimate and honest.
Those conversations, which Laura recorded for herself and her children, are now a new book Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding). To make the time more interesting and engaging, Dern interviewed her mother. So, every day – sometimes over Ladd's protestations – the two set out on a 15-minute walk. Ladd, who is also an actor, thought she had six months left to live - but the doctor said taking walks might help her increase her lung capacity.
Nearly four years ago, Laura Dern's mother, Diane Ladd, was diagnosed with lung disease.
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