Laura Dern on #MeToo: 'I Experienced Everything Barring Assault'

Laura Dern is on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine’s February 2019 issue.

Here’s what the Big Little Lies star had to share with the mag….

On what her parents (actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd) taught her about choosing roles: “[They encouraged me] to build a body of work so that I would end up having my most exciting years when I was a grown woman.”

On her Me Too experiences: “No one has to speak about their experience,” she says. “It’s also remarkably brave to sit in your own home and look in the mirror and say: this is the truth of what happened. I will tell you I experienced everything barring assault. I mean, there were a million of these circumstances where … What director or casting director needs a 13-year-old to go to the Chateau to audition in a room, sitting on a bed beside the director, to read a scene together alone? You just don’t create that scenario. There was behavior that was definitely the worst kind of behavior that somehow I got myself out of or someone stopped it.”

On the sisterhood of Big Little Lies: “I feel such sisterhood with the girls—we deeply love each other, and for Reese and Nicole and I particularly, all having done this since we were teenagers and never having acted with so many women, it’s amazing.”

For more from Laura, visit VanityFair.com.