Yahoo Lifestyle You Need To Read Kyle MacLachlan’s Seriously Poignant Tribute To David Lynch After His Death
On Thursday, the sad news broke that American filmmaker David Lynch had died aged 78.
Lynch’s death was announced on his Facebook page, where his family wrote: "There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'… It's a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
Lynch was renowned for his surrealist and experimental movies, with his catalog of work including Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, and The Elephant Man.
In 2020, he was recognized for his decades in the industry with an honorary Academy Award.
But Lynch is also famed for his work on the small screen, most notably the cult classic series Twin Peaks, which first premiered in 1990. In fact, Lynch’s last major project was the long-awaited third season of the show, Twin Peaks: The Return, which broadcast in 2017 — 25 years after the previous installment.
The mystery-horror series was created by Lynch and Mark Frost, with both filmmakers serving as executive producers and writers on the show, and Lynch also directing some of the episodes as well as the 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Twin Peaks starred Kyle MacLachlan as FBI agent Dale Cooper, which is arguably one of the roles the actor — who has also starred in the likes of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives — is best known for.
Lynch and MacLachlan had worked together twice before Twin Peaks; first on the 1984 movie adaptation of Dune, and then on the 1986 movie Blue Velvet.
And MacLachlan reflected on this as he paid heartfelt tribute to Lynch in the wake of his death, with his poignant words going viral for just how emotional they left fans of the collaborators.
Sharing a series of photos of himself and Lynch together over the years, MacLachlan began: “Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.”
“What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to,” he went on. “Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.”
“David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath,” the tribute continued. “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.”
“I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh,” MacLachlan added. “His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.”
“I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone,” he concluded. “David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.”
MacLachlan’s touching words struck a chord with his followers, with many taking to their own social media page to share their emotional reaction to this tribute.
One popular tweet reads: “was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch.”
While another, which has been seen more than two million times, adds: “Kyle Maclachlan’s tribute to David Lynch I’m gonna start screaming 😭”
“Kyle MacLachlan post has me crying again, just a beautiful partnership between actor & director. Between two friends,” somebody else wrote.
One more added: “I’ve gotten misty eyed at this three times now.”
And somebody else noted that Kyle “really captured what grief felt like” with the line "i will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear.”
Our thoughts are with Kyle and all of David Lynch’s loved ones at this sad time.
What is your favorite work by David Lynch? Let me know in the comments!
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