Yahoo Lifestyle Kyle MacLachlan Mourns ‘Dear Friend’ David Lynch in Emotional Tribute
Kyle MacLachlan penned an emotional tribute to the filmmaker who “plucked me out of obscurity” back in the mid-1980s as he mourned the passing of David Lynch.
The 78-year-old director’s family announced his death on Thursday, Jan. 16. After hearing the news, MacLachlan reflected on the friendship he built with the actor, sharing photos of himself with Lynch from various projects over the years.
“He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize,” MacLachlan wrote in his lengthy tribute on Instagram. “I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.”
The 65-year-old actor’s first project with Lynch was 1984’s Dune. The two collaborated a short time later on 1986’s Blue Velvet and also reunited in the early 1990s for the popular TV series Twin Peaks. MacLachlan also appeared in the Showtime reboot of the series that was released in 2017.
Read MacLachlan's tribute in full here.
The Sex and the City alum described the Eraserhead director as “an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him” who was “in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.” After describing the way their connection “blossomed” while working on Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, MacLachlan said he “always found [Lynch] to be the most authentically alive person” that he had “ever met.”
“While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own,” MacLachlan added.
Lynch’s family confirmed the Mulholland Drive director’s death with a brief message posted on Facebook. They wrote that there is “a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us” before adding, “But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”
MacLachlan wrote that he, too, “will miss [Lynch] more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear” and is “forever changed” by the time he spent with the auteur.
“My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone,” the actor said.
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