Laura Dern says going to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour made her youngsters lastly assume she's cool

• Laura Dern’s youngsters lastly assume she’s cool as a result of she took them to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. 
• The actor mentioned she had an “in” for tickets — she starred in Swift’s music video for “Bejeweled.” 
• Dern advised Seth Meyers that she’s been making an attempt to get her youngsters to assume she’s cool for years. 

Laura Dern’s youngsters lastly assume she’s cool as a result of she took them to the opening evening of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. 

Talking on “Late Evening With Seth Meyers” on Monday about Dern’s new e book, “Honey, Child, Mine: A Mom and Daughter Discuss Life, Dying, Love (and Banana Pudding),” written alongside her mom, Diane Ladd, Meyers mentioned Dern can also be making significant reminiscences together with her youngsters. 

A type of reminiscences, he mentioned, was their journey to Swift’s live performance collectively in Glendale, Arizona, on March 17 — “not a very simple ticket,” Meyers identified, referring to the chaos that ensued when Ticketmaster started promoting tickets final fall. 

“I used to be very fortunate to have an in,” Dern mentioned, “and it was so superb.” She added, “Taylor now is aware of the youngsters and needed them there.”

Dern starred alongside Swift and the Haim sisters in Swift’s music video for “Bejeweled,” a single from Swift’s tenth album, “Midnights.”

Meyers mentioned that having Laura Dern as a mother is “a really cool factor,” however that her youngsters — 21-year-old Ellery Harper and 18-year-old Jaya Harper — most likely do not acknowledge that reality. As a substitute, he mentioned, she seemingly has to go exterior the “Laura Dern bubble to actually impress them.” 

“I hope Taylor delivered,” Meyers mentioned. 

“She delivered,” Dern confirmed. “However I imply, guys, I’ve tried so exhausting for years to be cool to them. Music style notably,” she continued, recalling how she’d play Nirvana for her youngsters after they had been youthful.

“However it does flip round. As soon as they’re youngsters and we’re celebrating loving the identical artists, that is cool,” she advised Meyers, including that her youngsters’ dad and her ex-husband, musician Ben Harper, advised her, “You do not win” in the case of being cool to your youngsters.

“Nicely, you gained a little bit there,” Meyers mentioned, referring to the Swift live performance. Dern fortunately agreed.

She advised Meyers that when selecting a fancy dress for the highly-anticipated live performance, “we went all eras just about.” 

“We went to the get together retailer, and we honored all of the bedazzling and all the colours,” she mentioned of their outfits, which included glowing cowboy hats. 

Dern was one of many many celebrities noticed on the opening weekend of the Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, posting a photograph together with her youngsters en path to the present on Instagram. 

“It was unimaginable,” Dern mentioned of the present. The subsequent day, she posted an image of her and her youngsters posing with Swift, seemingly backstage. 

“Celebrating our superb buddy’s first present of tour. Extraordinary. Discovered household. #ErasTour,” Dern wrote.