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That’s right: I’m hangin' withAgent Cooper, drinking damn good coffee.
(And hot, too!)
“And you know, it’s nice to have to have one of those.”
To be clear, MacLachlan has no plans to shed the mortal coil anytime soon.
His soul was trapped in a red-curtained, demon-populated underworld known as The Black Lodge.
(Think: a pop-up jazz lounge for grim hipsters.
“Evil gained a beachhead in Twin Peaks,” says MacLachlan of the moment.
Has evil gained any more ground in the decades since?
One thing he can say with certainty: “I’m getting my own action figure.”
“I have three action figures now.
Evil Cliff Vandercave fromThe Flintstones.
Top that, Tom Cruise!”
In the middle of it, I took it a little bit for granted.
It happens once in a lifetime.
MacLachlan came toTwin Peaksthrough his relationship with Lynch, the director who launched his career.
There was no audition, just a conversation, per Lynch’s casting process.
(Lynch was born in Montana and spent some of his formative years in Washington and Idaho.)
“The friendship went from there,” says MacLachlan.
(“MUAAAAAAAAAAA’DIB!")
Unfortunately, the movie kicked up the wrong kind of sand for its star.
“David gave me the script while we were makingDune,” recalls MacLachlan.
He said, I want you to do Jeffrey.'
I was humbled by that, because the material was so powerful.
That was a pressure situation, inside and out.
But out of that kind of pressure situation, sometimes great work comes.”
The film is considered a masterpiece.
MacLachlan recalls a tight, focused production marked by creative freedom.
He figured the work would wind up airing as a movie-of-the-week.
