[male announcer] Director of programming for Comic-Con International,
Mister Eddie Ibrahim.
[cheers and applause]
[woman chanting] Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!
[chuckles] Hey, everybody, how are you?
So great day so far, right?
[crowd cheering]
And there's a damn fine panel to come, let me tell you that.
All right, how many of you remember or actually watched
the original Twin Peaks series?
[crowd cheering loudly]
All right, so, for those of you that have, afterwards, I want to find you
'cause we need to talk about whafs going on in this season, right?
[chuckles] You know what I'm saying?
So hopefully we're gonna get a few answers tonight, too, right?
[chuckles] Anyway, I'm really, really excited
to be able to have a panel like this,
especially something that is a revival
of something that was visionary and unique for its time
and well ahead of its time.
But something that I know this audience and our audience in general
would appreciate and love, and we're so excited to have it back.
So, while we're at it, why don't we give
a nice, big round of applause
for having Twin Peaks come here to do a panel with us.
This is awesome.
[cheers and applause]
And, actually, I know that they have someone else
who's also created a lot of entertainment that we enjoy
and a lot of content we enjoy.
So, with that, it is my pleasure to introduce the moderator
of this panel, the co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers,
Mr. Damon Lindelof.
[cheers and applause]
What is up, Hall H? How are you guys?
- [crowd cheering] - Excellent, excellent.
Just a little bit of housekeeping before we dive in.
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A big part of this experience is gonna be letting you guys talk
to the amazing panel that we have here.
We're definitely gonna do some Q and A.
I'm gonna talk to them briefly.
Before I bring them out, though, just wanted to say a few words
about this show.
In 1990, I was 16 years old, a sophomore in high school.
And although I'd consider myself at that time
sort of a quirky misfit,
the popular kids had more colorful ways of describing me,
a young man who wore vintage saddle shoes
listened to doo-wop, and slicked back his hair-
when I had hair.
And to them, the cool kids, I was a weirdo.
I wish I could say that I did not care about fitting in.
I did care, and I was lonely.
The world was scary and confusing, and I felt like it didn't understand me.
And then on April 8th of that year, my life changed forever.
It started with a dead body,
a beautiful young woman washed up on the shore,
a phone call, and a shaken older man uttering the words,
"She's dead! Wrapped in plastic!"
And suddenly I was no longer alone. I was in Twin Peaks.
I can't really describe what it was like to meet Agent Dale Cooper
or Sheriff Harry Truman or poor dead Laura Palmer
or Bobby and James and Donna and Shelly
and Audrey and Leland and Andy and Lucy
or Bob.
[man cheers]
But I can tell you this.
I loved every single one of them, because they were all weirdos.
I was transported to this place, and I never wanted to leave it.
My dad and I would record every episode
on something called a "VCR."
[laughter]
And we would watch them over and over again,
theorizing, unpacking clues, falling deeper and deeper
into the incredible story and unforgettable characters.
It had humor. It had heart. It had soul.
It was a meditation on love and loss
and dared to take on the cosmic mysteries of good and evil,
because it wasn't really about who killed Laura anymore.
It was just about playing its own beautiful music
with no regard for the rules that governed the box that I was watching it on.
This show was decidedly outside that box.
This show took handfuls of creamed corn and threw (hem at the box.
It changed everything, and then it was gone.
But something incredible happened in the following years,
because it turned out that I was not the only weirdo
obsessed with the goings-on in this small town
on the border of Washington State and the Black Lodge.
Twin Peaks, it turned out, not only thrilled us.
It inspired us. It inspired everyone.
There would be no Sopranos without Twin Peaks,
no X-Files, no True Detective, no The Killing or Broadchurch,
nu Fargo, no Stranger Things,
and most certainly no Lost.
I owe my entire career to this incredible show,
and I couldn't think of a better place to say that out loud
than in Hall H in San Diego in a room full of weirdos just like me.
[cheers and applause]
And it is an absolute honor
to celebrate Twin Peaks'triumphant return.
We're about to bring out some of the amazing cast,
some of whom you've known for 25 years,
some of whom you've just met.
Unfortunately, the two visionaries who created our beloved Peaks
could not be with us today.
So let's give a huge round of applause for one of those men, Mark Frost.
[cheers and applause]
Mark is an incredible writer, both of the original and the new Peaks.
But even by his own account, the true maestro,
the visionary, the icon has always been its director.
And he directed the entirety of our return to Twin Peaks, all 18 parts.
One of our greatest living artists, Mr. David Lynch.
[cheers and applause]
Pan of me is relieved that David is not here,
because I would geek out so hard
and be unable to complete full sentences.
But the other part of me, the fanboy part
felt that a Peaks panel in Hall H without David would be incomplete.
Fortunately, apparently some son of mysterious message appeared
and Showtime informed me that we are going to show it here.
I have not seen it. None of the cast backstage have seen it.
So, if we could just play that message now before we dive in,
that would be wonderful.
[static whirring]
♪ Éuiee Cruise's "Failing" playing 4'
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
- And- - [doorknob rattling]
Hey, don't go out that door!
Hey! We're on the fourth floor!
We're not on the ground floor here, buddy.
III
[doorknob rattling]
- What are you doing? - [door creaks open]
- Hey! - [music stops]
Hey!
[man screaming]
[car horn honks, tires screech]
[crash, women screaming]
- [indistinct shouting] - [woman] No!
[car horn blares]
[static whirring]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I got to show you something.
♪ Éuiee Cruise's "Failing" playing 4'
III
This, supposedly, is the last golf ball
O.J. Simpson hii before going into prison in Nev-
[static whirring]
III
[static whirs]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
And welcome to Twin Peaks at Comic-Con.
Thank you all for joining us here
and spending some time with us.
Today you're gonna meet
some great actresses and great actors.
And I hope you have a very enjoyable...
[door opens, horse neighs]
- You can't bring a horse in here! - [hoof beats clomping, horse neighs]
- What are you doing? - [glass breaking]
And, Ralph, take that gun away from her!
[clomping continues]
- What are you doing? - [woman screams]
- Hey! ' [gunshots]
- [horse neighs, glass shatters] - Hey! That was a damn good lamp!
[horse neighs]
Hey, you're wrecking all my stuff!
Get that horse out of here!
[horse neighs]
Get that horse out of here!
III
Oh, thanks a lot!
Your horse stepped on my cat!
Come here, honey. Come here, come here, baby.
- [cat screeches] - Ow, ow!
- [cat hisses] - Ow!
[record scratches, static whirring]
[cheers and applause]
Ah, that was so much more than I hoped it would be.
[laughter]
All right, without further ado, let's bring out
some of the incredible actors,
pan of Twin Peaks the original and The Return.
First of all, as Bushnell Mullins,
Mr. Don Murray.
[cheers and applause]
As William Hastings, Matthew Lillard.
[cheers and applause]
Big Ed Hurley himself, Everett McGill.
[cheers and applause]
James Hurley, James Marshall
[cheers and applause]
My favorite-Lucy Moran, Kimmy Robertson.
[cheers and applause]
Bobby Briggs, Dana Ashbrook.
[cheers and applause]
Gary "Hutch" Hutchens, Tim Roth.
[cheers and applause]
Janey-E Jones, Miss Naomi Watts.
[cheers and applause]
And last but not least,
Special Agent Dale Cooper, Kyle MacLachlan.
[cheers and applause]
[indistinct chatter]
All right, let's get this under way.
I can't resist. Kyle, before we all dive in,
do you have anything that you want to say here
to Hall H by way of greeting?
I do. I do.
Would you please?
Hello-o-o-o-o-o-o!
[cheers and applause]
[woman] Whoa!
That's my ringtone.
[laughter]
Uh, before we get into The Return,
I'd love to talk to some of the original cast
about the legacy of Peaks
and what the last couple decades were like without it
and then how you were summoned back into it by David and Mark.
Starting with Kyle, when it ended,
did you always feel like there was going to be more?
Actually, no, I figured that that was the end.
Although David and I are good friends
and we visit with each other frequently.
And I would-always during the conversation-
and they were always a couple of hours of just sort of revisiting old territory-
I would always say, "You ever think about maybe
going back to Twin Pe- you know, maybe...?"
And David was always just kind of very noncommittal about it.
And he never son of said yes or no,
but it was definitely probably a "no"
at that time, so...
[Damon] And then what happened? Was it a phone call?
Was it something-
It was a cryptic phone call.
So he called and said, "I needed to speak with you."
And I said, "Okay."
And he said, "But I can't speak to you over the phone about this."
And I was like, "Okay," so I knew I was-
either I was in trouble for something,
or he wanted to talk about something that I hoped he wanted to talk about.
So we met in a hotel room in New York,
and he had coffee there, which is always nice.
And he said he and Mark were writing
and had found a way back to Twin Peaks,
and was I up for the journey?
And I said, "I've never left Twin Peaks, David."
I said, "I'm ready to g0," so...
[Damon] That's awesome.
[cheers and applause] Thanks.
Everett, I actually- I think that I heard or read somewhere
that had you not answered a very specific phone call...
Did David and Mark, like, tweet out,
"How do we get in touch with you?"
How did that all happen from your perspective?
Well, I heard, Mark told me that...
that David was gonna go out to his Twitter crowd
and see whether or not someone knew about my whereabouts.
And somebody sent him a telephone number of a empty house
I have where I keep a couple of vintage cars.
And I just happened to be there.
I show up at this place maybe every couple of weeks to drive the cars.
And I got this yellow rotary phone hanging on the wall.
And it rings.
And I haven't heard this damn phone ring in ten years.
And I pick it up. It's David.
And for some strange reason,
it felt so... comfortable.
I hadn't spoken to this guy in 20 years.
But it was like we picked up a conversation
we just left off the day before.
So it was sweet. It was warm.
Oddly enough, we didn't talk about Twin Peaks.
But we shared a lot of our memories together,
some of the time we spent on Dune and, of course, Twin Peaks.
And he said, "Hey, man, I need a telephone number where I can be in touch with you.
Is this a good one?"
I said, "Man, this is not a good phone."
So we exchanged numbers.
In a while, he got back to me, and he said,
"We're gonna do Twin Peaks."
And I said, "What?"
I mean, it's 25 years, man.
They're gonna put you in jail.
You're breaking some kind of law.
But he said, "We're gonna do it."
And I said, "Well, you just call me when it's time to suit up."
And I did.
It's great, by the way. I mean, it's a fabulous feeling.
A warm, wonderful womb-like feeling
to be around him, 'cause he's a funny guy.
He's very clever.
He knows how to get a performance. He knows how to dig deep.
And I loved coming back.
It's a long time. 25 years is a long time.
[Damon] We're really glad that you came back.
Dana, I heard you were actually heading to a fan convention
with Sheryl when you heard there was something in the works.
What...
Yeah, we were heading to (he Twin Peaks UK Festival,
I think in 2015, probably.
And it'd been, you know, rumored in the tweets
that had come out about the gum coming back in style and all that stuff, so...
We kind of knew what was going on.
And, then, you know, Sheryl was on the way to the airport,
and David called her and said, you know, "It's gonna happen. You're in it.
And she said, "Well, I'm gonna go see Dana in London in a few hours.
Can I-you know, is he in it? Or can I tell him?"
And so he said, "Yeah, Dana's in it."
And so we didn't know in what capacity
or anything about it but that we were in it.
And so we just, you know, got to-
It was the best trip to London I think I've ever had.
I was just walking on air the whole time.
- [Damon] Right. - Super f un.
We used to send pictures- we were sending pictures to David
of us walking on the London Bridge and stuff.
"There's Bobby and Laura." Taking pictures.
That's it. That's how I learned about it.
[Damon] And, James and Kimmy, what about you guys?
Where were you when you got the call?
- In bed. - [Damon chuckles]
- [Dana] Ow! ' [laughter]
[man] Yeah.
Um, I was just at a friend's house,
and phone rang, and, yeah.
It was completely, like, mind blown.
I just-l was about 100 miles away from my house,
and I immediately got up, put my stuff together,
went back to my house.
I just lost it. I didn't know what to do. It was wonderful to hear it, yeah.
I was in bed. The phone rang. I answered it, which I never do.
But I answered it, 'cause first I got a text.
It was Sabrina Sutherland, asking if she could call me,
which that's what you do in L.A.
You have to ask if it's all right if I can call you.
I said, "Yes." And she called me.
I answered the phone, and she said,
"I have David Lynch for you. Would you like to speak to him?"
And I went, "[scoffs] Yes."
And he told me.
And as he was talking,
I slid off the bed, down the bed, which was really high at the time.
And by the time I was done talking to him,
I was looking at the bottom of my bed.
I had somehow crawled all the way under the bed.
[laughter]
'Cause it was just so unexpected.
[laughter]
[Damon] Naomi, you've worked with David before on Mulholland Drive.
Amazing movie. Amazing.
[cheers and applause]
How did you get recruited for Peaks?
And, more importantly, what, if anything,
did you know about Janey-E before you said yes?
Okay, the first part...
I've definitely stayed in touch with David since Mulholland Drive.
And, you know, we get together.
You go up to his house, and you chat a bit.
And I had actually gone up there
maybe-
I don't know, a year ago or more than a year ago,
with Laura Dem, who's sadly not here today.
And we were trying to coax him into some ideas
and get something going.
Kind of-you know, that's what you do with David.
Come on. "Hire me again."
It's just so good to be on a set with him
or just in a room.
Anyway, he was talking about some ideas
as he smoked.
And smiling a lot, but not really saying yes or no,
like your conversation went down.
And, um, and then, finally,
I heard the rumor that Twin Peaks was happening.
But I wasn't pan of that original team, obviously.
So it would be wrong for me to be pushy about it,
but, you know, I dropped some hints.
And then finally I did get a call and said, "Naomi, come up to the house.
I want you to read something."
And I said, "Okay. Sounds good."
And he wouldn't- he just gave me an envelope,
gave me a cup of coffee,
sat me in his chair that he built
and next to a table that he built,
and I sat there
for a good hour or so
and read these pages.
But there was nothing-l don't know anything about what happened
before my part or after.
You know, the scenes I was in, that's all he gave me.
And some of the scenes, the lines were crossed out.
So I don't know what was said.
Only, you know, the back and forth between us-
Dougie, lovely Dougie.
Dougie!
[Damon] So those pages, though,
it was slugged as Dougie?
You were in a scene with Dougie, but was it revealed to you that
that character was going to be played by Kyle?
Or---?
It was not told to me, but...
- [Damon] intuited? - I certainly...
- [Damon] Understood. - Posed that question.
[Damon] Copy that.
Which he did not, you know, clarify.
Matthew, I read a piece
on the work that you've been doing in The Return.
And it said, and I quote,
"By conjuring up as much snot as a person could ever create,
Lillard has turned Hastings into a memorable human character
in a sea of Lynchian insanity."
Many have compared your tearful performance
to that of the incredible Ray Wise
from the original series, who played Laura Palmer's father, Leland.
And I heard you came in cold,
that y0u'd never actually- you know, kind of seen-
Still haven't, bro.
You've never seen the original Peaks?
They're all still lovely. These people are amazing.
I'm gonna watch it tonight.
[laughter]
[Damon] Are you watching this one, The Return?
- Yes, I am. - [Damon] Yeah.
- What do you think? - I think it's-they're so lovely.
I think it's weird. Anyone else?
[laughter]
Super-if you're not a Lynchian-
I mean, if you're not a Twin Peaks dude and you come in, it's a little strange.
[laughter]
[Damon] My question for you would be-
I mean, you guys saw episode eight, right?
[cheers and applause]
That's crazy.
[laughter]
[Damon] What is it-
yet you feel like you fit in this world so completely.
What do you think it is that David saw in you
that made him invite you into this world?
I honestly have no idea how I got here.
[laughter]
Look, I don't know.
I mean, his casting process is very interesting.
It's you sit in a room, and somebody talks to you.
And they put a video camera on your face.
And you're just talking about life in general,
and you get a phone call saying, "I want you to come read these pages."
So I literally was, like, with my kids.
I'm like, "I have to go by this office and read a script?"
And my biggest fear is that I was gonna
do something horrible and naked in the show.
I mean, I didn't know.
You know, when you're reading a David Lynch script,
you have no idea where ifs gonna go.
[laughter]
- [Kyle] Horrible, isn't it? - Yeah, yeah. It's a horrible thing.
And then, you know, I got to the scene
that's in episode nine.
And it was intimidating.
I mean, it was the scariest thing I've ever read as an actor,
just because in the middle of it, you know,
he's got a line that says,
"The character breaks down hysterically sobbing."
And you sort of know, being a fan of David's
and being a fan of his movies, what that kind of looks like.
So it was intimidating.
And on that day, you know,
sort of in his world, you get two takes.
I mean, you kind of come in, and you do your thing, and you move on.
So you want to be really good really fast.
- [Damon] Mission accomplished. - Yeah.
- You did... - Amazing work.
[cheers and applause]
Now, Tim, you were a Peaks fan
and, like, a Dune fan, a Lynch fan.
Is that accurate?
I was more of a...[imitates static whirring]
...a Eraserhead fan.
[Damon] Uh-huh. Great film.
- [crowd cheering] - I was-yeah.
And a Blue Velvet fan.
[cheers and applause]
And a Mulholland Drive fan.
So I was very...
[stammers] The idea of-
A long time ago, I played Gregor Samsa,
whds in The Metamorphosis-character-
I did it with Berkoff, and we did it in London onstage.
[Damon] The cockroach.
And mafia what Eraserhe ad-
that's the connection to that for me, in a way, in a weird way.
So I was a fan of that stuff.
I wasn't...
somebody who'd seen-who'd dealt with the whole Twin Peaks thing.
I was busy dealing with the Quentin thing at that time.
And so this was all new to me.
I knew him...
from Dune, which I saw in the cinema in London.
But I was very- I was very, very new to all of it.
Very new. I find it intriguing. I still do.
[Damon] And you had never met David prior to working on this project with him?
No, I'd met his daughter. I hadn't met him.
[Damon] And so what was the first meeting like?
Did you get the job before you actually met him?
Was there a phone call?
They called up and said "Do you want to do Twin Peaks?"
- I said, "Yeah." - [laughter]
[Damon] Sold.
That's fucking it, man.
Oh, I broke the law. Not supposed to swear.
[imitates key flicking]
But, yeah, and then I was working with- Oh, I can't say.
Can I say-yes, I can say-
with Jennifer Jason Leigh, and I had just worked with her.
So...
And David had cast us in it
completely independently of Hateful Eight.
He didn't even know that we worked together in it, I don't think.
And so it was kind of a nice reunion for us.
- [Damon] Very cool. - As...
[Damon] Don...
we've talked a lot about working with, meeting David.
Many of your scenes are working with Kyle,
more importantly, the Dougie iteration
of Agent Cooper or Kyle's performance-
I don't quite know how to explain it.
[laughter]
What is like working with Kyle?
What is it like working with someone who doesn't say words, per se?
What are the inherent challenges in some of those scenes?
Well, I remember my first sentence to Dougie was,
"Cut the shit, Dougie."
[chuckles]
I knew that we had had a relationship.
When I was told about Twin Peaks,
it actually came from the casting director,
Johanna Ray, who is a wonderful casting director,
as you can see from the wonderful actors that she gets.
And I had never met David.
And, of course, all I got was pages of script,
my own scene.
But the scene was four pages long
in solid dialogue.
The other characters just said a word or two.
And this was a real challenge
to do.
And fortunately, I had my actor son, Michael Murray,
who was one of the stars of Cop Rock,
ran the scene with me.
And we had ten days before we started shooting.
And he made me go through the scene ten times each day.
So I'd gone through it 100 times
by the time we got to the scene.
And then what was really interesting to me
and made it all the more enjoyable
was there was such an atmosphere on the set
when I walked on the set.
I think it was probably one of the happiest sets I've ever walked on.
There was no tension at all. Everything was very relaxed.
And even the cast and the crew, there was a togetherness,
where there was no real difference
between actors and technicians.
We were all into making this film.
We were all very much moved
by the man who had written this and directed it,
David Lynch,
and also with Mark, of course.
And it just became
one of the great experiences of my life,
one of the most pleasant things that I've ever done.
And having seen the results,
I'm watching it like a fan every week, because, you know, of course,
I hadn't seen the other pages that the other actors are doing.
So it made me a big Twin Peaks fan.
And I'm just happy to be part of it
and feel very grateful for the opportunity.
[cheers and applause]
[Damon] You raised a really interesting point, because all of you-
maybe with the exception of Kyle- have only read your parts.
What is it like watching the show for you...
...the first ten episodes?
What is the experience of seeing it?
Are you just as surprised as we are?
Are you trying to figure out how you fit into it?
Do you watch it with friends and family? Do you watch it alone?
Just a question for the entire panel.
I'm curious as to how you are watching this work,
'cause traditionally an actor knows what it's gonna be.
In this case, not so much.
We're all watching it as it unfolds.
No one has seen anything beyond the episodes that have already aired.
And I like to watch at home alone. [chuckles]
Glass of wine, and that's about all I need.
[laughs]
So...
I haven't watched it yet 'cause I've been traveling
in places with not great Internet,
and so I'm saving it all.
- It's like... - [Damon] You're really good in it.
[Kyle] Like, in Canada? No.
[laughter]
[Kyle] Sorry. That was a bad joke.
Yeah, so I'm-it's good to-
I'm looking forward to watching big chunks of it all at once.
- [Damon] Fantastic. - Yeah.
[Damon] Anybody else?
I haven't seen it.
I'm gonna wait until it's done.
And then I'm gonna watch the whole thing
from the first series
all the way through to the end with my kids.
So we're gonna have, like, a festival that will...
- I don't know what that's gonna do to us. - [laughter]
But I'm up for it-.
And you're all invited.
[cheers and applause]
Just, you know, 'cause we don't know anything, you know,
but we, you know, knew the cast list, but we didn't know how it all factored in.
But I just want to say that, as an original... [mumbles]
...it's been so exciting and thrilling for rne
to watch someone like Kyle, who I've known for all these years,
get to do stuff that I didn't even know he could do, you know?
It's, like, amazing to see his work.
And these two here as well- they're, like, some of my favorite actors.
And just to be able to be a part of some-
even though, you know-
Well, we don't know if we interact, but...
Just the fact that we got to, you know,
I get to watch them work, it's just awesome.
And then plus all the, you know, originals.
I don't know. It's just exciting for everybody, even us, you know?
[Kyle] How about that Dana turned out-
I mean, Bobby is-he's a-
Look where he's come, man.
- Look how far he's come. - Yeah.
Bobby got a good arc. [chuckles]
[Kyle] Bobby got a good arc.
Watching you grow as an actor has been great, too.
- Ah, thanks, Kyle. - [Kyle] Yeah.
I think they suck.
[laughter]
- That's why I love him. - [Kimmy] You haven't seen it.
[laughter]
Okay.
[Damon] Just another quick question for the panel, and we're gonna-
if you guys want to start lining up for Q and A,
we're gonna get to that in just a minute.
What is the question that you guys get asked the most often
by either the fans or the media, even if you aren't allowed to answer it?
But I'm just curious, what's the question that kind of keeps coming up
now that The Return is out there?
Do you have one?
"What's David Lynch like?"
- [Kimmy and Dana] Yeah. - [Naomi] What?
"What's David Lynch like?"
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
How do you even answer a question like that,
"What's David Lynch like?"
- Can I say it? - What's David Lynch like?
He has this incredible sense of joy about him.
It's actually an easy answer,
because he's full of joy and life,
and he has this peace about him
that's unlike anyone I've ever experienced.
And he has a vision of what he wants.
I don't know. He's a fantastic human being.
So it's actually an easy answer.
[Kyle] He is fantastic.
He's, um...
His...
belief in his process
and his vision and his point of view
is so profound and focused.
And he inspires me that way because he follows
this dream in his mind.
And lfind that inspirational in my life
to go after the thing that I believe in the strongest.
- He inspires me that way. - [Dana] Yeah.
I think one of the most impressive things about David
is that he really shows great appreciation
for other people's work.
And it's one thing that we all like, is to be appreciated for our efforts,
and he never fails to do that.
So you go home after a day's work with David, and you feel-
you feel good about yourself and about the world
because of having had that experience.
[Kl/b] Mm-hmm.
[Everett] Well put, man.
All right, guys, let's open ii up to some of your questions.
I've still got a bunch more. Oh, excellent.
The gentleman over there in the Spider-Man shirt.
Hey. Nice to meet you all.
My question is...
What added story material
do cast members bring to each episode?
[Kimmy] None.
I can tell a brief story
about an actorwhds not here named Jim Belushi.
- [scattered cheers and applause] - And in one scene...
It was, you know, kind of a big scene, everything was going crazy.
And Jim decided
that he was going to ad-lib a line
in this heightened moment of euphoria...
which he did.
And we heard, "Cut!"
[Naomi laughs]
And he's sitting there,
and David has one of those megaphones.
[Naomi] Megaphones.
And he said, "Mr. Belushi"...
[laughter]
"Do I have to report you to the principaFs office?"
[laughter]
And Jim went, "No, sir. Got it."
[laughter]
[Naomi] Yeah.
- I hope that helps answer your question. - [laughter]
- [Dana] Good answer, Kyle. - [Naomi] That's a good one.
- [Damon] Great answer. - [Naomi] That's great.
- Yes, sin'? - [man] How's it going, guys?
I just want to say real quick, thank you for making
unconventional television that makes you think and is just-
I have a blast watching every week, so thank you.
But really quick-l just want to say,
ifs really easy to reference David's old work while watching the new series.
And for me, specifically, I see a lot of Mulholland Drive
in the new season.
Whereas I think that Mulholland DnW/e has a lot to say
about the film-going experience and how we perceive film,
Twin Peaks-l know. I'm doing really quick, sorry.
Twin Peaks does that with television, even 25 years later.
So my question is, if Agent Dale Cooper
and Diane from Mulholland Drive were to get coffee and pie,
what would their conversation be like?
[Kyle chuckles]
- I got it. - You got it.
- You got it? - I got this.
You got this? Go.
- No, you go. - I have no idea.
[man] Like that?
Well, it would be interesting.
I don't know. What do you think, Damon?
[Damon] I don't think improv is called for here.
[laughter]
It's a great question, and I'm sure someone should present it to David-
We'll mull it over, yeah.
But there's fan fic waiting to be written there, sir, for you.
- [Kimmy] Football. - Football.
They/d be talking football.
Yeah, everyone knows that. Big football fans.
"Big football fans," yeah.
Yes?
- Hi. - [Damon] Hey, there.
What gave you-
Sorry. I have a problems with that.
[Naomi] Pardon?
I have with problems with the mic.
[Tim] Microphone?
- [Kimmy] We'll wait. - Okay.
[Damon] It's okay.
What gave you the idea to do a movie?
[Damon] Yeah, does anybody want to...
answer sort of...
why did you decide to become actors?
Um, like...
- Or the Twin Peaks movies. - Yes.
[woman] Fire Walk With Me!
Oh, Fire Walk With Me'?
That would be a Kyle- Fire Walk-Yeah.
I mean, I was thinking back on what you were saying before
because I think you- obviously you can draw
tremendous connections with Fire Walk and Twin Peaks, of course
and see a lot of similarities there.
But, you know, to answer the question-
I don't know, I mean, it's general,
but when David calls,
we answer the call, so...
[laughter]
Wherever he goes, whatever he wants us to do...
[Naomi] Yeah. Like, literally anything,
even get in a bunny suit.
I don't know if anyone...
[Damon] Is that a spoiler? Is that gonna happen? No?
- [gasps] - [Damon] Okay.
- Oh, darn it. - Oh, that's another project...
All right, well, I guess we can all go home now.
- [Damon] We're in trouble now. - ...altogether.
- [Everett] Did she spill her guts. - [Damon] Yes, sir?
- Yes, sir? - [man] Hi.
First of all, I want to say, Mr. MacLachlan, I'm a huge fan.
I love that you're the mayor in Porflandia.
I love that you're Captain George Van Smoot
in How I Met Your Mother.
- [Kyle] Thank you. - I watched Dune as a kid.
And, of course, The Flintstones movie will always be in my heart.
[laughter]
- [Matthew] Flintstones... - [Kyle] Thank you.
My question is, for the cast that's watching,
do you guys watch the episodes and ask yourself
"Why is no one worried about Dougie?"
[laughter]
[Kyle] Ah.
I don't worry about that at all.
That's Janey-E's job.
Mm-hmm.
- She worries about Dougie. - [Damon] Yeah.
- She does worry about Dougie. - [Damon] It is the immortal question.
Obviously, you're probably the least qualified to answer this,
but what do you all make of Dougie?
You know, what's your hot Dougie take?
- [chuckles] - He's hot.
- Yeah. - "He's hot."
- [laughter] - Any commentaryfl Any thoughts?
I think that it's very easy,
if you ever meet any families who live, like,
out in the suburbs and who have kids and work,
it's very easy to slip through the cracks and say one word a month...
[laughter]
...without anyone noticing.
And what wife wouldn't like that from a husband?
[laughter and applause]
[Kyle] That's the best answer I've heard...
- [Damon] It's working. - [Matthew] That is a hot take-.
- [Kyle] Thanks, Kimmy. - [Matthew] That is a hot take.
Absolutely.
And wasn't Dougie ripped?
Dougie was pretty ripped, too, so...
- [Damon] Yes. - There's that.
[Damon] Yes.
[Kyle] No doughnuts for that month.
[chuckles] Yeah.
[Damon] Yes, ma'am?
[woman] So it's such a pleasure
to see the show back after 25 years.
And my parents watched the series originally as it was airing in the '90s,
so sitting down and watching- watching them-
watching it with them every Sunday,
it really feels like it's come full circle.
But a lot has changed in the past 25 years.
So how do you think the Internet has changed the production
or just the quality of the show or the show itself?
How has the Internet played a role in that?
[Damon] That's a great question.
Kyle, you were obviously there the first time.
Just really quickly, I think, you know, it made us very conscious...
We made a real concerted effort
to not let anything get out about the show.
No spoilers, no anything, really.
And I think the specter of social media and all that
made everyone a little nervous.
And we worked very hard
to make sure that nothing got out in that way,
which I think we were very successful with, so...
that one thing.
[Damon] I know you're not allowed
to speculate or demystify
the show that we're currently watching,
but do you start to cook up kind of your own theories?
Are you aware that out there on the Internet,
there are people who are watching these episodes
hundreds of thousands of times, each episode,
trying to sort of unpack mystery, understand what's going on?
And just as-since, again,
you're notjusi in it, but also watching it,
what do you make of all that, all the theorizing?
Fun? Frustrating? Both of the above?
I've never been asked-
I have a date. I write a date in episode nine.
And I must have been asked a thousand times
what was the date that I wrote down-.
Mm.
Like, the 20th or (he 29lh?
[Damon] What was the date that you wrote down?
I think ifs the 20th, but it was, like, a year ago.
And I have terrible penmanship. I can't tell.
[laughter]
But the Zone- I mean, they went out and created the Zone,
which is an online site that you can visit.
- That's real. - [Damon] Excellent.
- Yes, ma'am? - [Dominique] Hey, guys.
My name's Dominique.
I just want to say I love Twin's Peak, new and old.
I'm a big fan of Naomi Watts.
You are beautiful in person, and I am starstruck.
My question is to you or to anyone-
Who has made you felt starstruck in your life?
[Naomi] Huh.
I would say, um...
I still get a little starstruck around David,
'cause he's just so unique
and he's, like, living on another...
in another world.
And ifs one that you look up to and want to be a part of.
You just kind of want to please him in everything you do.
- That sounds weird. - [laughter]
On set.
- That's even weirder. - [Kyle] "Even weirder."
[laughter]
Oh, but, yeah.
'Cause he's...
[laughter]
I'm back from that. Yeah.
No, truly, that's not a joke.
He creates such an incredibly imaginative world,
and it's so original.
And you just want to join that world
at whatever cost.
And you know it's gonna be good,
'cause all his ideas are just completely original.
Anyway... But thank you.
[chuckles] Sorry.
Oh, boy, this is gonna be good. Go ahead, sir.
Diane, if I ever had the chance
to meet the amazing crew of Twin Peaks,
I would take that chance to ask Kyle what it was like
to learn to speak and act backwards in the Black Lodge.
[tape recorder clicks]
- [laughter and applause] - Wow, with the click.
- Well done, sir. - Well done.
"Kcor-stel."
That's "let's rock" backwards. Anyway...
[laughter]
You know, I was very lucky
that all I really had to do in the Black Lodge
was occasionally walk backwards and sit down.
And the other actors
were all required to learn that dialogue backwards.
It was extraordinary to watch the focus and concentration
as they were able to deliver this indecipherable dialogue.
And it was difficult, you know,
but so highly effective, I think.
[Damon] ls there a different energy
on the set when you're doing stuff that's inside the Black Lodge
than when you're doing stuff that's outside of it?
Yeah, it feels very focused
and almost like electricity is buzzing around.
It's a very unusual environment.
- That floor, first of all... - [Damon chuckles] Yeah.
...you know, gives you a whole different kind of state of being.
- [Damon] Craziness. - Yeah.
- [man] Hi. - Hi.
Hi, guys. So my question is mostly, would I say, directed to Kyle,
is everyone talks about Dougie,
but everyone seems to be forgetting about Doppel-Cooper,
one of the most amazing villains I've ever seen right now.
[applause]
And my real thing is, Kyle,
how much do you like being bad right now?
[Kyle laughs] A lot.
It's great.
It was, uh...
Reading the script
and seeing what David expected me to do...
[clears throat] ...at the very beginning,
was very humbling because,
A, he's stuck with me, you know?
So I should-
hopefully I'll be able to do what I need to do with that role.
But we found him sort of slowly
together, David Lynch and I.
And then...
I was very lucky, in that David was a director
that was watching over me as I went into that place,
because I knew that I would be careful- taken care of carefully, you know?
That we were making this character together.
So that was-l was at a real advantage because of that.
Thank you.
The fan community has named this character Doppel-Cooper,
Evil Cooper, Dirty Cooper.
- What do you call him? - Just a nice guy.
- No, I call him... - [laughter]
- Are you allowed to tell us? - I like "Mr. C."
But that's only because it was stated in one of the early episodes.
- "Mr. c." - "Mr. c. Mr. c."
Yeah, I just like the way Otis said that. I thought that was...
That's one of my favorite scenes.
That and Buella comes in. "How you?"
And I love that. It's so haunting just the way she said that.
That's some of my favorite stuff in there.
- Cool. - Yeah.
Yes, sir?
- [Damon] Cool shirt. - Thank you.
My name's Cody Jones.
I just wanted to say, I've been a fan for a long time,
so I know better not to ask any questions explaining anything
or what this means or whatever.
So I kind of had a question for Matthew, since he's new to it.
First off, watch season one, season two,
then the movie, then the one you're in.
[laughter]
[Matthew] Copy that.
[Cody] That's the order. All right, so...
since I don't have a question to explain anything,
Matthew, could you do some of your lines-
Bill Hastings lines as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo?
[laughter]
- [Tim] Let's have it. - [Kimmy] Yeah, do it, do it, do it!
- [man] Wow. - [Tim] Come on, Matthew!
[Damon] I don't know whether to insulate you from this
- or make it happen. - No, you can't protect me-.
- I got you. - [Damon] Yeah, yeah.
[laughter]
[Damon] Do it again. Do it again.
[changing pitch] Me, me, me, me, me...
[Damon] Do it again. Do it again.
- Zoinks! - [laughter]
Scoo-What does he say?
"Scuba diving, zoinks."
I don't know. That's terrible.
[Damon] Bravo.
I can't get away from that damn character.
[laughter]
I don't want to be associated with him.
I mean, I love him, Shaggy, but I would like that to be done.
And I just want to be Bill Hastings forever.
[man] "Hack the planet"!
"Hack the planet."
Yes, sir?
[Don] I'll tell you something, Matthew, in that scene,
you left us other actors a lot to live up to.
That was enormous performance, it was.
[cheers and applause]
Yes, sir?
So, first off, I just wanted to say, I'm a big Dune fan.
So it's a pleasure to meet Kyle and Everett, so...
[Everett] Thank you, man. That's sweet.
And my question is- This is gonna sound bad-
I haven't seen Twin Peaks,
so how would you describe it in a nutshell?
[laughter]
Oh, my God. That's great.
That's a good one.
I think just throw the nut away.
[laughter]
- [Damon] That's right. - [Naomi] Keep the shell.
[chuckles]
Anybody else have a way of describing this show
in sentence or two?
It's very crispy and slightly beige.
[laughter]
Anyone else? No?
- Ifs challenging. - Yeah, it is.
Are you convinced? Are you gonna watch it now, sir?
' [Kimmy] I do. - Yes?
- I hope so. - All right.
- Moist. - "Moist." [laughs]
- Excellent. Yes, ma'am? - It's moist.
The man who asked the previous question
seems to be in the same scenario as most of the actors up there,
- who haven't seen it. - [laughter]
- But anyway--- . [Damon] HEY-
- My question is... - [Damon] They're waiting to binge it-.
[Tim] This is some shade, right?
My question is...
Audrey Home,
as one of the most dynamic characters from the original,
I'm wondering why she didn't have a romance
be pursued with Cooper.
In this...
What are you referring to?
- [woman] Original. - In the original.
[woman] 'Cause I saw it kind of going along the lines
in the first season that she would kind of be
his romantic interest,
and then they kind of did away with that.
So I was wondering why that didn't happen.
Oh, I mean, ultimately, I...
I think-l don't know-.
The writing went a different way.
But, I mean, she was...
- A high-school student. Yeah. - ...a high-school student.
And so I think they felt maybe...
[laughter]
- [Kimmy] There she is, right there. - What?
- [Kimmy] There's Audrey. - [James] Oh, okay.
I think that had a lot to do with it, in other words.
Even in the early '90s, that was still frowned upon.
- I don'! know if... - Yeah. Crazy.
[chuckles]
Yes, miss?
Uh, so we're not gonna get together, then?
- Oh. - [crowd groans]
- [Kyle] What did she- - I'm kidding. I'm kidding-.
My question's for the original cast.
I was wondering what it was like
stepping into your old characters
after all these years.
Great question.
Dana?
- Well, I hadn't... - Everett.
I hadn't been in front of a camera
in maybe 20 years.
And so I was scared about that.
It's kind of like the barrel of a gun or a cannon.
You know, you can't bullshit it.
And it'll shoot you dead if you try.
So I was afraid maybe I wasn't able to go back to the emotions,
that kind of vulnerability...
...being susceptible to the sensations
and the emotions that are going on around you.
So it was a big step for me.
But seeing everybody on the set
and seeing how warm and inviting David was,
it was great.
I have something to say.
Let's hear it.
For me, it was all about
the wool and the sweaters.
[laughter]
The sweaters that Lucy always wears.
Sorry, I keep dropping my-
[Damon] James, Dana, either of you, what was it like?
I mean...
My thing is that I think it's so different
for my character, in a sense, so we'll just see.
So I don't know. It's like the same yet different.
And I think, with Dana, he's the same yet different.
You know, his heart is exposed. You can see who he is, you know.
And in the beginning, it was more like, you know...
It literally is like, "What did that kid turn out like?"
You know what I mean? So...
You know, so, when you come back in it, you're the exact same person,
but no longer the same person, so...
But it was effortless.
To answer your question, it was more than effortless-
like what Kyle said.
It was, like, literally family again.
It sounds corny, like what everybody says,
but this is the type of thing- what Don said-
he is the only set that I've ever been on
where everybody across the board can say something-
with the exception of one director,
who also is around the same, you know, size as where David is and stuff.
He's very creative.
But I've never seen anybody as creative as David
and as giving and loving to his cast and the crew.
And everybody was just, you know, the same-
You know, he treats everybody- he'll take-
Everybody is exactly- gets the same respect.
And that's-just, it's a beautiful thing.
And it makes it very safe and comfortable, you know?
[Everett] He's got a sharp edge, too. I've seen the sharp edge.
Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
[Everett] There's this beautiful speech where I'm describing
how Nadine and I got together.
It was a long piece of exposition. I probably didn't have it very well.
And I said, "David, you think they're gonna sit still for this?"
He says, "Well, let me help you with that.
"Give me a minute. I'm gonna run up and down the hallway.
And I can find somebody to say that speech for you,
and you just stand behind them and nod your head."
[laughter]
See? That's another side of David.
- [Damon] Fascinating. - [laughter]
All right, I think we've got time forjust two or three more questions.
Go ahead, this-
Nice jacket.
Hello-o-o-o!
[Kyle] It's like I'm looking in (he mirror.
Dougie Jones. Dougie Jones.
My question for the cast is,
given the importance of music to the world of Twin Peaks
and the importance of the music that-sorry-
the importance that Twin Peaks has had on the music community,
I just wanted to get a feel for what the cast, individually,
might have wanted to see on the soundtrack.
And that's not to discredit what we've heard so far.
It's been amazing, but love to hear...
[Naomi] What-
I mean, I think the music is fantastic.
- Ifs amazing. - Yeah.
And I love the idea
that we son of end the hours,
most of them, I think, with a musical journey.
I think ifs kind of great that at the end of the hour,
you return back to a place of...
maybe not comfort, but it's a place we recognize from Twin Peaks-
you know, the Bang Bang club or even the diner that one time.
You come back to a place that's got some comfort in it,
I think, at the end of the hourjourney.
[Damon] Cool.
I have to say that the opening song and that opening shot sequence,
like, settles you into that space
so clearly, it's amazing.
Yes, ma'am?
[woman] Hi. This is a question for Kyle.
Since you've working with Lynch
from really early in your career,
do you feel like there was a trajectory between all these characters
and how it affected you and your maturation from-
both personally and as a human being professionally?
Was there a connection between those characters?
[Kyle] Thanks for the easy question.
- [Damon] Softball. - Softball.
Without a doubt, David's had a huge impact on my career.
I don't know if I would have had
a film and television career if it weren't for David.
It was all theater.
And David brought me into movies.
And...
I mean, he pretty much brought me up
in the film world.
And so...
and spoiled me.
We've all spoken about how the set is that he creates-
the environment and the joyfulness and the sense of creativity.
And so that's what I experienced in the first two things that I ever did.
So I've been spoiled forever by working with David.
So, um, he's an interesting guy.
I was thinking about something else about David,
is that he's very accessible to all of us.
And he's very open.
And he's very available.
And then there is a point at which
he goes into a place that's purely David, and I don': think...
It's like this is him as the artist. He's, like, an artist.
And at that point, I'm like...
Then I become like a fan, you know?
Because now he's my pal, but when he goes here,
he's an artist, like, a real artist.
And that's untouchable and a place that I don't feel I can share with him.
He exists in there all by himself, you know?
I don't know if that's the best way to explain it,
but there's definitely a difference.
[Woman] Okay.
All right, so this'll be the last question, unfortunately.
So make it count, sir.
Ru try.
I wanted to know, what was it like to film the sequences
in the Black Lodge
with the evolved form of The Arm?
Ah. Now we're getting somewhere.
- All right. - [laughter]
Well, to be completely honest,
I didn't really know what we were seeing.
- [Damon] Only after the fact. - Only after the fact.
[Damon] You experienced The Arm with us, (he audience.
I experienced it with the audience. Exactly.
[Damon] So you were just told there's something here.
Yes. Pretty much.
[Damon] And then you turned on your television,
and it was a tree with some son of talking-brain (hing.
Exactly right.
Why was I surprised?
It was exactly what I imagined.
- [Damon] We've all been there. - [chuckles]
It wasn't a giant dinosaur coming down to, you know, pick me up-.
[Damon] Just a couple of announcements to make
before we wrap this up.
There's Twin Peaks merchandise available
through Entertainment Earth and Funko.
They're gonna give you guys special Twin Peaks merch.
There's an Agent Cooper bobblehead.
There's a "Welcome to Twin Peaks" sign monitor bobble
and a two-pack of Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer.
A bunch of these guys are gonna be signing autographs
at the Entertainment Earth booth- that's number 2343-
immediately after the panel.
You can tell them in person how much you love this show.
I will be in line with you.
And then, most importantly,
there's a screening of "Pan 11" tonight...
here, airing ahead of the episode that's gonna air on Sunday.
That's gonna take place in Room 6A at 10 pm.
So check that out.
And finally, I guess, technically, even more importantly than that,
Twin Peaks is moving to 8 p.m. on Sunday nights,
starting August 6th.
So, if you're watching it at 9 p.m. and you're like,
"This is a really weird episode of Twin Peaks,"
you are not watching Twin Peaks because it has moved to eight.
So I think you gave the "hello," Kyle.
Is there anything thai you want to say as a good-bye?
Here's 7,000 Peaks fans all under one roof.
On behalf of everybody, let's send it out.
I want to first thank Damon
for being here and moderating the panel.
- [cheers and applause] - Thank you.
- Honor, honor. - Extraordinaryjob.
I think we're all just so grateful that you're here
and that you love the show and that you're watching the show.
And I think just give you guys a big shout-out for being such fans.
- So thanks for being here. - [Damon] Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
All right, thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. The cast of Twin Peaks.
[cheers and applause]
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