Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, and “Dernseys”

TVC 652.6: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about “Dernseys,” a phrase that Jack Nicholson coined to describe Dern’s unerring knack for knowing what a character might say, or might think, in any given scene, regardless of whether it’s in the pages of the script. Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and Bruce Dern: Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have: An Unrepentant Memoir are available from University Press of Kentucky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices