TWIN PEAKS
What: Revival of David Lynch’s cult TV show returns after 25 years with a double episode premiere. When: 9 p.m. today. Where: Showtime.
discuss anything,” says another new cast member, Laura Dern, when asked about her name on the series.
Mostly what you get from the actors is how much they love working with the director.
“I’ve had the good fortune of knowing and working with beautiful directors, and almost the first thing they’ll say is, ‘Can I tell you how David Lynch has inspired my work?’” says Dern, who starred in “Blue Velvet” and “Wild at Heart” for the filmmaker.
MacLachlan — who was right out of acting school when Lynch cast him as the lead in 1984’s “Dune” — adds, “For me, the idea of a return was a gift, not only to be able to work with David again within that world, but to be able to return to that character.”
Considering how much impact Lynch has had during his 40-year career, it is noteworthy that the 71-yearold director has made only 10 films.
Away from filmmaking, Lynch has spent years as a painter and there have been numerous exhibitions of his works. His 2006 book, “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity,” advocates Transcendental Meditation as a way to the imagination, while noting “I love dream logic.”
If there is a hint about the revival of “Twin Peaks” it involves a couple of dreams. In the third episode of the first season, “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer,” Cooper has a dream where he sees an older version of himself sitting in an eerie room hung with red curtains. A one-armed man utters, “Fire walk with me” and promises to “kill again.”
In the series’ final episode, “Beyond Life and Death,” Cooper returns to the room and the spirit of Laura Palmer tells him, “I’ll see you again in 25 years.”
Sheryl Lee, who also played Laura’s cousin Madeline Ferguson, is one of the many listed as returning for the new series (see sidebar).
Also returning is Mädchen Amick, who plays Shelly Johnson, a waitress at the Double-R Diner.
Amick, who also is on “Riverdale,” says Lynch and Frost worked together like they did 25 years ago. “There’s a magic between them, and they both complement each other really beautifully. It was like we were just plopped right back into the same spot we were in before.”
Still, there is no telling where you will get plopped after hearing the opening twang of Angelo Badalamenti’s haunting theme song.
Lynch says “Fire Walk With Me” — which in its dreamlike way sort of wrapped up the story — is important to the new series but, of course, doesn’t elaborate. One thing we know is that he doesn’t want you to experience the revival as a series but as 18 parts of a movie. For now, the filmmaker has no plans for anything more, but offers, “Before I said I wasn’t going to revisit it, and I did. You never say no.”