Taylor Swift’s friendship with Laura Dern hits different!
At the Environmental Media Association awards ceremony on Saturday, Jurassic Park actress and award-winner, 56, spoke exclusively with PEOPLE — and when asked what she, as a friend, might know about Swift that her fans might not get a chance to experience, Dern shared a candid answer.
“She cares deeply about everything,” Dern tells PEOPLE of Swift, 34, adding, “and I think the people who love her know that.”
She continues, “They know it in her writing and they know it in her heart and her activism — but it was amazing to know that as a friend as well.”
Laura Dern at the Environmental Media Association Awards.
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Despite her close friendship with Swift, Dern responded diplomatically when asked if she would support the Kansas City Chiefs in their AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. (The Chiefs are, of course, the team of the “Blank Space” singer’s boyfriend, tight end Travis Kelce.)
“Oh, that’s a complicated answer. I don’t have an answer,” he explains, before adding: “Maybe I have a reason to root for everyone.”
Dern also opened up about what first got her into the wider environmental movement, specifically supporting a famous friend.
“My mom early as a child and her amazing friends, some of whom are here tonight, who I had the privilege of learning from at a young age,” she says, adding, “And the amazing Ted Danson, who was a huge inspiration with his work at Oceana. So much People [who] they really guided me and taught me so much.”
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The Oscar winner — who appeared in Swift’s “Bejeweled” music video in 2022 — shared another insight into her relationship with the musician at the documentary’s premiere Common ground earlier this month.
“It’s one of my deep friendships and I love and admire her so much,” Dern told PEOPLE at the event.
“Finding a friend in the middle of being creative, and she’s a superpower… She’s amazing,” she added. “So it was a lot of fun.”
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Taylor Swift and Laura Dern.
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And, when asked if he stars in a music video for Midnight song helped expand her fan base among Swifties, Dern said she wasn’t sure.
“I don’t know,” she admitted. “I don’t know, but I’ll take it.”
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In the video for “Bejeweled” (“a twist on the Cinderella story,” according to Swift), the Haim sisters appear as half-sisters, while Dern portrays Swift’s evil stepmother.
The “All Too Well” singer explained how Big little lies the actress’s role was created during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October 2022, telling host Fallon that she told Dern she had written a one-page script in which the actress would call her a “tired, tasteless girl.”
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Recalling his version of events in an interview with Party tonightDern supported Swift, noting that the sentence was all it took for her to agree.
“It’s even better when she talks to you on the phone and asks you if there is any way you could say those words to her,” the actress added at the time.
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