The mystical-existential detective drama âTwin Peaksâ (actors: Kyle McLachlan, Cheryl Lee, Michael Ontkin, Sherilyn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ray Wise) became the next joint project of David Lynch and Mark Frost after a successful collaboration on the film âBubble from saliva. "
Initiators and creators
The main initiator of the creation of "Twin Peaks" was an agent Tony Kranz, who persuaded the creative union to create a television series, while expensive projects in the cinema were not planned. One of the creators - avant-garde director David Lynch - by that time had already earned the fame of an intellectual, but absurdly surrealistic director. The second (Frost) was also known and even nominated for an Emmy television show thanks to the Hill Street Blues project. This time they wanted to dilute the genre of the criminal series (detective investigation) with a mystical component. The script was written only a week, and the pilot episode was shot at a crazy pace - the creators met in 21 days. April 1990 was marked by the release of the opening series, and after another 7. So there was a series of "Twin Peaks", the actors and roles of which immediately after the release of the pilot release became wildly popular.
Mythical Cinema Option
Inspired and intrigued viewers had to wait for almost half a year to air the next episodes of the television project, which finally should shed light on the fate of the FBI agent Dale Cooper. The fanâs imagination and mystical circumstances of the murder of cutie Laura Palmer, as well as all the other strange events taking place in the town of Twin Peaks, took hold. The actors of the series also related to their roles.
The most successful discovery, a finding of criticism, was called episodes, allegedly taking place in a different, surreal space, where the astral essences of the characters lived. They became a kind of clues watching an unusual TV show "Twin Peaks". The actors and roles were so successfully selected by the creators of the series that it was not possible to reproach the mismatches of the makers of the characters. The pilot series has a film version - an alternative two-hour film version with the questioning title âWho killed Laura Palmer?â.
In a dispute with a classic American television product
By and large, the film "Twin Peaks" (1990), the actors and roles of which became canonical, was created in a fierce competition with ordinary television production. Although he had a television nature and real cinematic roots. If you do not pay attention to the fact that Lynch owns only a quarter of the timing (including the prequel âTwin Peaks. Fire, come with meâ), then in this series you can find not only literary, psychoanalytic, verbal symbols and their designations. The series is full of cinema quotes, which can serve as clues for understanding the intriguing essence of the story about the forces of evil that have settled in a quiet provincial town. In which, during the development of the plot, everything turns inside out, exposing hidden mania, secret complexes and satanic drives. The actors of the movie "Twin Peaks" with great pleasure and not without intellectual malice spoke in an interview with the media about their characters and their dark side. And everyone had something to tell. Indeed, it is impossible to call the project revelations from the surreal messiah, which individual inhabitants tend to recognize Lynch. He's just skilfully pretending. Even in such a mystical existential drama like Twin Peaks.
Actors and roles
The year 1990 was marked by the appearance in the sky of Hollywood of a whole scattering of new stars. This constellation revealed the Lynch series to the world. Their fates, like their future careers, vary. But the film "Twin Peaks", the actors and roles of which in quantitative composition exceeded three dozen, gave the viewer a lot of interesting characters with verified, well-defined personalities, each with its own secret. It is said that it was no coincidence that Kyle McLachlan was invited to the main role of Dale Cooper, an FBI agent, because he was a kind of director's alter ego. After the premiere of the series, McLachlan made a successful career not only on TV, but also in films. However, almost all the main actors of Twin Peaks did not go unnoticed. Kyle's filmography includes projects such as Body Exchange, Mysterious Island, and The Flintstones.
Michael Ontkin - Harry Truman
Michael Ontkin is one of the most successful and sought-after actors after the shooting. Prior to participating in Twin Peaks, he starred in films exclusively made in Canada, but this project is his most successful, stellar work. Unfortunately, after 2000, his popularity waned, and he became a supporting actor. The last picture in which he lit up - the series "Sophie."
For individual participants in the project, participation in the TV series Twin Peaks became significant. The actors, whose biography is presented below, for the most part took advantage of the chance presented to them by this film.
Cheryl Lee - Laura Palmer
The role of the mysterious Laura Palmer went to Cheryl Lee and became her first professional job. The start was a success. After the end of filming, Cheryl continued to act quite actively in various films and series, while managing to play in performances. Now she is known more as an actress of independent independent cinema, she failed to conquer Hollywood Lee.
James Marshall - James Hurley
Actors of the series "Twin Peaks" with some bias reacted to the fact of the participation in the filming of the son of the producer and one of the directors William R. Greenblatt, who played the role of Laura's lover - James Hurley. It is not known for certain whether the success of the series, or the eminent father helped the actor become a real (not one-time) star of television and cinema. Now James is one of the sought-after actors of the "dream factory", his filmography includes paintings: "In the Eyes of the Killer", "Doomsday", "King of Football" and others.
Madhen Amick - Shelley Johnson
The actors of the project called her participation in the filming of the series "Twin Peaks" landmark, because the girl had previously been shot exclusively in video clips. And after the release of the picture, it was nominated for a significant soap opera digest in the USA. After such success, Madhen continued to work in the film industry, starring in the films âSex, Lies, Madnessâ and âSleepwalkersâ. However, soon, having changed the movie, she returned to TV, continuing her career as a television actress.
Lara Flynn Boyle - Donna Hayward
Before participating in the project, the young brisk actress Flynn Boyle already had some experience in the cinema and was even recognizable and popular among a narrow circle of viewers. The girl managed to shoot in other projects while filming in a mystical series. But at the beginning of the 21st century, her career declined sharply, and in the last decade she was not invited to serious projects at all. Boyle has to be limited to low-budget paintings.
Sherilyn Fenn - Audrey Horn
The popularity of Fenn over the years was gaining momentum like a snowball: she did not become an actress of one role after filming in the film "Twin Peaks". Actors who did not succeed in vain tried to denigrate her name. Her filmography has more than 100 roles, Fenn was among the nominees for Golden Globe and Emmy. But the role of the rickety and wicked daughter of the owner of a local hotel in Twin Peaks is positioned by critics as one of the best.
Ray Wise - Leland Palmer
Only Ray Wise can outstrip Fenn, because on his personal account more than 200 roles in television and cinema. At 67, the actor continues to act and delight fans with his acting skills.
Kimmy Robertson - Lucy Moran
Kimmy, playing the role of Sheriff Truman's secretary, was remembered by the audience with her squeaky voice. By the way, it was he (the voice) who helped develop the further career of the actress. Robertson received an enormous number of proposals for the voice acting of animated films, which she succeeded in. Indeed, in large cinema, she was offered only secondary roles and even extras. The element in which the actress felt confident, remained animation.
Dan Ashbrook - Bobby Brizg
Dan Ashbrook is the only one from the entire casting of the series, which took place not only as an actor, but also as a screenwriter. However, the actor is proud of his track record, which, among others, includes roles from the films Deadwood, She's Unmanageable, The Strange World, and, of course, Twin Peaks.
Two equivalent parts of the series
The structure of Lynchâs creation can be conditionally divided into two parts. The first is a real mystical saga about a single knight, by the will of fate penetrated the kingdom of darkness. The romantic line of Audrey-Cooper is very brightly manifested here - genuine, sometimes funny, but definitely touching, touching with its nobility.
The second part is to the viewer as the penetration of the kingdom of darkness into a knight. Moreover, the author is inclined to give preference to darkness. First, darkness absorbs Laura, after which it takes on the moral principles and principles of the central characters, reducing them to sins. And gradually the pacified town of northwestern America turns into a black hole that draws in every approaching one. But the belief that all the inhabitants of Twin Peaks are irrevocably vicious and doomed to burning in "fiery hell" will be incorrect. According to the subtext, everyone is free to get rid of the harmful effects of the satanic essence, to expel the mysterious Bob and not let him in anymore.
An apple from an apple tree ...
After the blurry finale of Twin Peaks, many trolley fans remained unsatisfied. But to their great joy, in 1992, the "diaries" of the prostitute and anesthetized Laura Palmer were released. This film, with a certain cunning and intent, was composed by the daughter of the provocative director Jennifer Chambers Lynch.
There was also an attempt by Lynch himself in the prequel Twin Peaks. Through the Fire â(actors: Cheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Medken Emik, Dan Ashbrook and others) tell about the events preceding the murder of Laura. The film was mixed. You can watch it without previous acquaintance with the contents of the series, but there is a risk. The viewer may not understand anything, but appreciate Lynchâs authorial style â or understand, but not appreciate. In order to fully experience âThrough the Fireâ, you should definitely first look at âTwin Peaksâ. By the way, visually the film was shot much better and more effective than the series (reviews are confirmation of this).
Real USA Model
Many famous critics saw Twin Peaks as a model of the real USA, in which everything has a different essence, a second bottom. Apparent well-being, like a curtain, conceals an infernal, vicious gut. However, the viewer should not attach such exaggerated importance to the psychoanalyticism and mysticism of the series, which the author himself, David Lynch, chuckles, and not without malice.