Laura Dern says going to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour made her kids finally think she's cool

• Laura Dern's kids finally think she's cool because she took them to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
• The actor said she had an "in" for tickets — she starred in Swift's music video for "Bejeweled."

Laura Dern's kids finally think she's cool because she took them to the opening night of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Speaking on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" on Monday about Dern's new book, "Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)," written alongside her mother, Diane Ladd, Meyers said Dern is also making meaningful memories with her kids.

One of those memories, he said, was their trip to Swift's concert together in Glendale, Arizona, on March 17 — "not a very easy ticket," Meyers pointed out, referring to the chaos that ensued when Ticketmaster began selling tickets last fall.

"I was very lucky to have an in," Dern said, "and it was so amazing." She added, "Taylor now knows the kids and wanted them there."

Dern starred alongside Swift and the Haim sisters in Swift's music video for "Bejeweled," a single from Swift's tenth album, "Midnights."

Meyers said that having Laura Dern as a mom is "a very cool thing," but that her kids — 21-year-old Ellery Harper and 18-year-old Jaya Harper — probably don't recognize that fact. Instead, he said, she likely has to go outside the "Laura Dern bubble to really impress them."

"I hope Taylor delivered," Meyers said.

"She delivered," Dern confirmed. "But I mean, guys, I've tried so hard for years to be cool to them. Music taste particularly," she continued, recalling how she'd play Nirvana for her kids when they were younger.

"But it does turn around. Once they're teenagers and we're celebrating loving the same artists, that's cool," she told Meyers, adding that her kids' dad and her ex-husband, musician Ben Harper, told her, "You don't win" when it comes to being cool to your kids.

"Well, you won a little there," Meyers said, referring to the Swift concert. Dern happily agreed.

She told Meyers that when choosing a costume for the highly-anticipated concert, "we went all eras pretty much."

"We went to the party store, and we honored all the bedazzling and all the colors," she said of their outfits, which included sparkling cowboy hats.

Dern was one of the many celebrities spotted at the opening weekend of the Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, posting a photo with her kids en route to the show on Instagram.

"It was incredible," Dern said of the show. The next day, she posted a picture of her and her kids posing with Swift, seemingly backstage.

"Celebrating our amazing buddy's first show of tour. Extraordinary. Found family. #ErasTour," Dern wrote.