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In 2020, she herself earned an Academy Award nomination for her supporting turn as Amy March in Greta Gerwig's adaption of Little Women - although she lost out on the night to Marriage Story's Laura Dern.

As Fred ingratiates himself with higher-caliber clients — Bruce Dern chief among them — he swims with the current of the decade’s most convention-breaking films.

“We had a beautiful lunch at his house,” she recalls of an afternoon spent with the director and fellow Lynch muse Laura Dern.

In a way, it’s a sequel to “Enlightened,” the 2011 HBO series created by White and its star, Laura Dern, about a businesswoman who, after a nervous breakdown, comes back changed after a tropical spa experience.

The previous movie also featured the series’ original stars, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill.