As Laura Dern sets pulses racing in her new movie Lonely Planet, she’s shedding some light on her onscreen chemistry.
The Academy Award winner recently opened up about working with an intimacy coordinator on the Susannah Grant-helmed romance, which is now on Netflix, noting that she “was so lucky” to work with co-star Liam Hemsworth, whom she called “literally the safest person I could ever talk through everything in my life with.”
“By the time we were doing those scenes, there was nothing we couldn’t talk about together and work out creatively, professionally, all of that,” Dern told People. “But we also had a lot of support. We had much, much discussion.”
She remarked that the process was “incredible … that film and filmmaking have changed so that everyone is comfortable in their voice and can set boundaries comfortably without fear of losing a job or being unpopular.”
Dern stars in Lonely Planet as reclusive novelist Katherine Loewe, who arrives at a prestigious writer’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the remote setting will unlock her writer’s block. While there, she meets a young man named Owen Brophy (Hemsworth) — and what starts as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.
Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe and Liam Hemsworth as Owen Brophy in Netflix’s Lonely Planet.
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Also starring Diana Silvers, Younès Boucif, Adriano Giannini and Rachida Brakni, Lonely Planet is produced by Grant, as well as Sarah Timberman and Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions. Brendan Ferguson, Corinne Weber and Margaret Chernin served as executive producers.
Lonely Planet comes at a time when the May-December romance is having a moment onscreen, with Nicole Kidman leading Babygirl with Harris Dickinson and A Family Affair with Zac Efron, in addition to Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galatzine in The Idea of You.
