The tall Garcia, who won her first two matches comfortably, dominated the fight all the way through, but
Dern managed a penalty point and showed tremendous agility to hold on to it till the end.
"There are so many lessons!" enthuses 47-year-old
Dern, who jokes that she is on the "manic high" of jet lag after flying to the UK from her native Los Angeles.
"All during your career, you look for a certain kind of security from the people you're working with, people that believe you're talented, that you can do what you can do," says the 76-year-old
Dern, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 1978's "Coming Home." "I've been overrated sometimes and I've been underrated, probably more than I've been overrated."
Dern will play the role of a 70-year-old widower Claude, who learns that the love of his life, Lilian (to be played by Silhol), is in a senior home going through difficult times without anybody looking after her.
Dern, in a strapless black gown, was accompanied by Monica Ramirez, the co-founder and president of the National Farmworker Women's Alliance (Alianza Nacional De Campesinas), which represents more than 700,000 women working in the agricultural industry, fighting workplace sexual misconduct.
"Big Little Lies" star Laura
Dern has been nominated for an Emmy for her role as Renata in the hit HBO series.
He is joined by actress Laura
Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran.
Indeed, the filmmakers have arguably mastered the material's subtle, sardonic insights more so than its big emotional moments, most of which involve Strayed's beloved mother, Bobbi (Laura
Dern), whose death from lung cancer at the age of 45 set off her 22-yearold daughter's startling downward spiral into sex and heroin addiction, culminating in the end of her marriage.
Laura
Dern, far left, and as Frannie , right, with Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in The Fault In Our Stars Laura
Dern, far left, and as Frannie , right, with Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in The Fault In Our Stars THE Fault In Our Stars has reduced even the toughest of cinema-goers to snivelling wrecks.
NEBRASKA (15) ELDERLY curmudgeon Woody Grant (Bruce
Dern) receives a bogus prize notification and embarks on a cross-country odyssey to collect the million dollars he believes is waiting for him in the titular state.
Dirt-poor Woody (Bruce
Dern) and his son Dave (Will Forte) travel hundreds of miles after Woody gets a letter saying he's won a million dollars - but he'll only qualify if he returns the letter by Monday.
Enlightened (Sky Atlantic, 10pm) LAURA
Dern, star of Jurassic Park, Rambling Rose and Inland Empire, takes the lead role in this new comedy drama.
Young lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura
Dern) set out for New Orleans in an attempt to escape Lula's psychotic mother (Diane Ladd).
It's hassle that Greg could do without as he considers a lucrative job offer from pretty drugs rep Andi Garcia (Jessica Alba) and weighs up sending the little ones to the prestigious Early Human School, run by the inspirational headmistress Prudence (Laura
Dern).
When they seek answers from the previous resident, Creepy Carl (Bruce
Dern), the Thompsons learn that the hole is a portal to The Darkness, a terrifying force that preys upon human fears.