Austin Butler Shares Bond with Laura Dern, Who Reminds Him of His Late Mom: 'We Connected on a Soul Level' Tommy McArdleAugust 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM Rick Kern/Getty; NBC/Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty Austin Butler on Augl. 13, 2025; Laura Dern on Feb.
- - Austin Butler Shares Bond with Laura Dern, Who Reminds Him of His Late Mom: 'We Connected on a Soul Level'
Tommy McArdleAugust 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Austin Butler told Men's Health how he and Laura Dern formed a fast friendship after they met and Butler realized Dern bears a resemblance to his late mother
"My mom was even told that she looked like Laura Dern, and so as soon as I see her, it's like: She looks like my actual mom," Butler said
Caught Stealing star Butler's mom died of cancer in 2014
Austin Butler is sharing how he formed a special bond with Laura Dern.
The Caught Stealing actor spoke with Men's Health for a September 2025 cover story, in which the outlet noted that Butler, 34, and Dern, 58, met at an event during Butler's recent journey toward finding a balance between his Method acting approach and relaxation in his personal time.
"It was like the whole room just quieted, and we connected on a soul level," Butler said of meeting Dern, an Oscar winner for the 2019 movie Marriage Story, for the first time. "We felt like kindred spirits."
As Men's Health noted, Butler's mother Lori died from cancer in 2014, when Butler was 23. (Lori and his father David divorced when Butler was 7.) Butler was not the only person who saw a physical resemblance between his mother and Dern. "My mom was even told that she looked like Laura Dern, and so as soon as I see her, it's like: She looks like my actual mom," he said.
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Austin Butler and his mother Lori
Butler lost himself so much in his Oscar-nominated performance as Elvis Presley in 2022's Elvis that he had to hire a dialect coach to help him stop speaking in Elvis' voice.
Men's Health reported that his intense approach to his roles has seemingly affected his health. In recent years, Butler has experienced migraines and temporary losses of vision and pain in his foot that lasted for months after his press tour for 2024's Dune: Part Two.
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As Butler told Men's Health, he long thought of his acting as something that "had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken." People in his life, like Dern, are helping him work on a different approach, though.
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Austin Butler on May 17, 2025; Laura Dern on March 2, 2025
"She's helping me more and more to see that you can come out the other side, and maybe bits of you have healed, and synthesized, and metabolized," Butler said of Dern. "It can be therapeutic, in a way."
Men's Health is not the first outlet to note Dern's mentor-like role in Butler's life. When Butler spoke with Esquire for a profile published in February 2024, it noted that the pair know each other "socially" and that Butler considers Dern "a career-advice sounding board."
"The moment Austin and I met, we started diving in on life, art, growth, healing and the privilege of being actors," Dern told Esquire at that time.
Caught Stealing is in theaters Aug. 29.
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