Kyle MacLachlan Shares Tribute to David Lynch

Kyle MacLachlan, one of David LynchHis closest collaborators subscriber A long tribute to the late director. “Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my understanding, David Lynch plucked me from obscurity to star in his first and last big-budget film,” MacLachlan wrote, referring to Lynch’s ill-fated 1984 film. Sand dunes. “I owe my entire career, my life really, to his vision.” Find the full statement below.

After Paul Atreides played in Sand dunesMacLachlan went on to star in Lynch’s film Blue velvet, Twin Peaksand Twin Peaks: Fire Walks With Me. “Our friendship blossomed into Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks, and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met,” MacLachlan recalls.

Although MacLachlan only worked with Lynch once more (in Season three of Twin Peaks), he is still considered one of the director’s greatest inspirations. David Foster Wallace even brought up the director and the actor in him Endless joke: “Cosgrove used Watt on almost every project for eighteen months. Watt was for a time to himself a Dinero [sic] It was Scorsese’s, McLachlin’s [sic] To Lynch, and from Allen to Allen.

David Lynch family Announce The artist died today. Several personalities, including Christabel, Billy Corgan, Questlove, and others, posted statements in tribute to the late director.

Kyle MacLachlan:

Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my understanding, David Lynch brought me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big-budget film. He clearly saw something in me that I didn’t even recognize. I owe my entire career, my life really, to his vision.

What I saw in him was a mysterious, intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting within him. He was in touch with something that the rest of us wish we had access to.

Our friendship blossomed into Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks, and I always found him to be the most genuine person I’d ever met alive.

David was in tune with the universe and his imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of man. He was not interested in answers because he realized that questions are the motivation that makes us who we are. They are our breath.

While the world lost an amazing artist, I lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel worlds I could never have imagined on my own.

I can see him now, standing to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and a big hug and a Great Plains voice. We would talk about coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.

His love for me and my love for him came from the cosmic destiny of two people who saw the best things in each other.

I will miss him more than the limits of my language can say and my heart can bear. My world is fuller because I knew him and even emptier now that he’s gone.

David, I will forever be changed, forever yours. Thank you for everything.