Marriage Story: Laura Dern's <i>Marriage Story</i> Character May Be Inspired By …

There is no lawyer quite as feared as the divorce lawyer, and there is no portrayal of a divorce lawyer quite like Laura Dern’s.

While Dern certainly has impressive acting chops, the inspiration for the character may have come from someplace more personal: her own divorce lawyer.

Hollywood Family Law attorney, Laura Wasser.

Despite the fact that Wasser and Nora are both chic, high-powered family law attorneys, Wasser found Nora to be a dramatized, more aggressive version of a divorce lawyer.

“I thought that Laura Dern did an excellent job portraying kind of the worst version of a Family Law attorney.