Kyle MacLachlan

“The first one I'm going to pick is sex lies and videotape steven soderbergh I was going to be in this actually but it didn't end up happening for the Spader role I thought it's made it was great he's wonderful and he's perfect and I love steven he also has a he has an investment in an alcohol singani which is a grape brandy I think coming out of bolivia so I also make wine and so we get together for cocktails sometimes and talk about what it's like to distribute...”

“So this is the Le cercle Rouge starring Alain Delon, Yves Montand and I was like until I got into the noir I was sort of like who's this Alain Delon what's the big deal about Alain Delon and I watch him and it's like the guy first of all he's incredibly handsome but he's so tough you just don't expect him to be as tough as he is looking that way gave me hope...”

“Oh okay so this is oh I'm still I can still reach it Manchurian Candidate this is a film I don't I've seen I thought a long time ago but I don't remember but it was directed by the late John Frankenheimer and John was a character oh my lord he had some you know he had a great career and then he had some personal difficulties and then he got through those and then he was coming back directing and on his on what I call the comeback trail for John...”

“Being There oh my god this is great Peter Sellers Peter Sellers Performance was again I borrowed you know just or was inspired by let's say his character for again for the Dougie character in Twin Peaks: The Return I just the childlike quality that he had in his eyes and just the wonder and the way he looked at the world it was very helpful to me...”

“And this one is great I just caught my Roma wow that's heavy Alfonso such a beautiful movie such a delicate movie so I worked with Alfonso on a series called Believe a number of years ago and it was such a pleasure I had been working I kind of had a lull in my career I guess and have been working and but I hadn't really worked with anyone of this caliber of Alfonso's caliber and I just had a couple days on the series but something washed over me like a kiss...”

“The Elephant Man is beautiful film and I know that he felt a great affinity with that character and John Hurt did an extraordinary job Anthony Hopkins I work with Anthony later on we did a movie called The Trial together and we spent three nights in Kutná Hora in Czechoslovakia at that time filming in this cold church and we basically do impersonations of actors... And then we would do David Lynch together so we'd be doing dueling Davids because he worked on this one...”

“Now this one Blue Velvet was kind of the kind of a rebirth for me because we done Dune together in 83 and Dune didn't really turn out that well in fact I was kind of after that it was sort of I felt like I was a Pariah in the business no work no nothing but David bless his heart he'd given me the script to Blue Velvet when we were filming while we were filming Dune in Mexico City and I read it and I was like whoa this is this is very intense and I really liked it...”