“He goes, ‘Thank you very much.’ He walks over near the corner of the smoking section,” Sprouse continued. “Laura Dern walks in and sits down across from him. She goes, ‘Do you mind if I?’ And he goes, ‘Sure.’ And he pulls out of his pocket, fresh pack of cigarettes, hands her one. She’s like, ‘Can you light it for me?’ And he goes, ‘Yep.’ He lights her cigarette for her.”
And as Lynch, who died in 2025, left the smoking area he turned to Sprouse and said, “‘I just want to tell you, you’re very polite. Thank you.’”
Podcast host Amanda Hirsh was surprised the meeting made him want to quit smoking, but as Sprouse explained it, “I’ll never have a better cigarette than that in my entire life.”
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