Laura Dern's Kids Were Excited About Her Working withHunger Games' Liam Hemsworth: 'We Love Gale' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

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The odds were inLaura Dern’s kids' favor with her new costar.

Aside from being a fan of Hemsworth, 34, from a career standpoint, Dern adds that her family was “thrilled about” her working with him, considering his real-life personality.

“Just that he’s such a genuine person [and] that I had someone who was family instantly,” she says.

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Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth inLonely Planet(2024).Anne Marie Fox/Netflix

Anne Marie Fox/Netflix

The two actors, who play love interests in the film, also touched on generational differences — or, rather, a lack thereof — that they felt between them, especially when it comes to social media.

“We are all the same generation except for kids who now literally are given a device in early childhood,” Dern says. “All of us, whatever our ages were, wewere bored in childhood. We didn’t have devices. It’s changed so drastically that my daughter talks about how, even for teenagers, they have such a different experience than kids who are 5 to 10 now.”

“So it’s just such rapid shift that for us — growing up as young actors, we didn’t have that scale measuring us. We didn’t consider becoming an actor based on followers and social-media noise,” she adds.

“In fact, we have so many things we share in common. That’s what continued to unfold. Life experiences that were radical parallels.”

Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth inLonely Planet(2024).Courtesy Netflix

Courtesy Netflix

Lonely Planetfollows Katherine (Dern), “a reclusive novelist” who “arrives at a writer’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the remote setting will unlock her writer’s block,” a synopsis reads.

The synopsis adds, “While there, she meets a young man” named Owen (Hemsworth) — and “what starts as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.”

Asked if there is anything the movietaught them about love, Hemsworth says a big theme inLonely Planetis “the importance of self-worth in a relationship and being seen and heard and loved for who you are, and not judged and someone having to change someone.”

“I think what the relationship between our two characters is about [is that] they both listen and they both see each other, and that’s enough,” he adds. “Just listen and hear each other and encourage them to be themselves, and remind them of the things that are important to move forward in life.”

Lonely Planetis on Netflix Oct. 11.

source: people.com