Laura Dern is basking in an awards season double header.

The Academy Award winner reunited with Noah Baumbach, her “Marriage Story” writer-director, for his melancholy movie star comedy “Jay Kelly” which is now streaming on Netflix.

Simultaneously, she costars with Will Arnett in Bradley Cooper’s melancholy divorce reconciliation comedy “Is This Thing On?” which opens theatrically Friday.

It seemed inevitable that Dern, 58, would take this path. Both her parents – Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd – were Oscar nominees who triumphed with decades-long careers.

Laura has succeeded in television, arthouse fare with David Lynch and blockbusters like Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park.”

In “Thing” her Tess Novak is navigating a post-divorce life from Arnett’s Alex Novak as they parent two sons. When Alex impulsively decides to try standup in comedy clubs while holding his regular job it kickstarts a new perspective – and possibly a marital reunion.

For Dern, joining “Is This Thing On?” was a no-brainer. “All I needed to hear was that this was something that Will and Bradley cared about.  And would I be interested in going on a journey with them?  I was!

“The way they both spoke so beautifully about how this was an opportunity to look at the individual journey. To find your way back to someone else. That was so exciting.

“And then there was their incredible openness to us when we were invited in to really think about the characters. And for Will and I to build this love story — their history and everything that came to how they got here, even if they haven’t caught up to understanding why.  That was an amazing thing to get to be a part of.

“And, if I may, I want to speak to something Will talks about, which is the idea of openness. Being a collaborator.  For Will to have done that was an incredibly, profoundly generous act.

“Because we’ve experienced writer-directors who are very protective of their baby. You come in and they want to be collaborative. Of course, they want it to be the best film.  But it can be challenging to navigate. On both sides.

“Will was so cracked open: Allowing our discovery of something he’d already presented to us.

“At the end of the day, it’s always about the truth. You hope that’s true on any movie.  But it’s required by Bradley, in a way that’s pretty unparalleled. It speaks to who he is as an actor and what he brings as a filmmaker.

“That commitment as his vocation really sets the standard for all of us.  We’re never going to stop. He has offered the depth of friendship, both to Will and myself in our lives for many years now. But to see that at work for all of us on set was incredible.”

Laura Dern, Will Arnett, and Calvin Knegten in a scene from “Is This Thing On?” (Photo by Searchlight Pictures/Jason McDonald, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures).