American actor Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” series, reacted to the filmmaker’s death by stating that he owes his entire career to the director’s vision, “the most authentically alive person” he knew.
In a statement published this evening in his official Instagram accountKyle MacLachlan remembers how David Lynch, who died on Thursday at age 78, plucked him “from obscurity to star in his first and last big-budget film,” “Blue Velvet,” “for reasons that go beyond” the understanding of actor: “He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and indeed my life, to his vision.”
Kyle MacLachlan defines Lynch as “an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean exploding inside him”, someone who “was in touch with something we all wish we could have achieved”.
“Our friendship blossomed on ‘Blue Velvet’ and then ‘Twin Peaks,’ and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’ve ever met,” the actor continues, adding, “David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination at a level that seemed to be the best version of a human being.
“While the world lost a remarkable artist, I lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel through worlds I could never have conceived on my own,” acknowledges the actor.
“I will miss you more than the limits of my language can express and than my heart can bear”, continues MacLachlan, ensuring that his “world is much more complete”, because he met David Lynch, “and much more empty , now that he’s gone.”
American filmmaker David Lynch, director of “A Wild Heart” and “Blue Velvet”, died on Thursday, just a few days before his 79th birthday.
Kyle MacLachlan is a key actor in David Lynch’s filmography, in which performers such as Laura Dern, Naomi Watts and Richard Farnsworth also regularly appeared.
Lynch’s death comes just over two years after the disappearance of composer Angelo Badalamenti, who worked regularly with the director, and singer Julee Cruise, voice of the main song in “Twin Peaks”.
David Lynch was born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana, in the United States.
Musician and visual artist, Lynch was mainly recognized for his work in cinema and television, with emphasis on films such as “Eraserhead” (1977), the origin of the filmmaker’s particular language, “The Elephant Man” (1980), one of his first great hits, “Blue Velvet” (1986), the “thriller” of which “Twin Peaks” prefigures itself as a “spiritual spin off”, as The New York Times writes, and “A Simple Story” (1999) , with a more stripped-down narrative.
At Cannes, David Lynch won the Palme d’Or in 1990, with “A Wild Heart”, and the award for best director in 2001, with “Mulholland Drive”, considered his masterpiece. The Venice Film Festival awarded him the Golden Lion for his career in 2006, the year his final feature, “Inland Empire,” was produced.
Lynch has never won an Oscar, although he was nominated for “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive.” In 2019, he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
David Lynch was in Portugal in 2007, when he was honored with a retrospective in the first edition of the current Lisbon Film Festival (Leffest), by producer Paulo Branco. His autobiography, “Room to dream”, co-written with Kristine McKenna, was published in Portugal by Elsinore in 2018.
Casa do Cinema, in Coimbra, has a cycle dedicated to the filmmaker underway, which will run until the 23rd, and which includes films such as “Eraserhead”, “The Elephant Man”, “A Simple Story” and “Inland Empire ” (2006).
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