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Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
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MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. “The worlds that [Lynch] creates are real in his mind — they exist,” he tells Terry Gross. MacLachlan's new memoir is Fictional Selves. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel American Hagwon, by Min Jin Lee. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our YouTube channel Check out the Fresh Air Archives See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...
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I've never seen so many trees in my life. The W.C. Fields would say I'd rather be here than Philadelphia. 54 degrees on a slightly overcast day where the man said rain. You get paid that kind of money for being wrong 60% of the time in B-working.
Mileage of $79,345. You may recognize that as my guest Kyle McLaughlin in the first episode of the David Lynch TV series, Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks as FBI special agent Dale Cooper recording a message as he drives. At the time, Twin Peaks was the strangest, most dreamlike series ever on TV.
Like a lot of dreams, the meaning of the imagery and story were often elliptical, hard to interpret. To everyone's surprise, Twin Peaks became a big hit. McLaughlin says he wouldn't have become the person he is without David Lynch. Just months after acting school, McLaughlin seemed destined for a meteoric rise.
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