Today’s Hollywood stars are more “sophisticated” and “aware of the business” than in the days Kyle MacLachlan was starting out, the Sex and the City star said today as he gave his thoughts on another Twin Peaks reboot.
As a budding actor, MacLachlan played the role of Paul Atreides in David Lynch’s 1980s version of Dune and he spotlighted how different the approach is for today’s young stars such as Timothée Chalamet, who plays Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s version, and Chalamet’s co-star Zendaya. “When I started I was plucked from relative obscurity from Seattle, where they had found me for Dune,” MacLachlan told a packed house at Cannes’ Espace Miramar this afternoon. “I thought I was going to work as a repertory theater actor and then suddenly I was in LA and I was like, ‘What am I doing?
I have no idea about the movie business’.” The likes of Chalamet and Zendaya, on the other hand, are “so sophisticated and so aware of the business,” MacLachlan added. “They are smart, clever and have everyone lined up.
They have agents working on different projects. It’s a different animal in a way.” MacLachlan joked: “I’m trying to catch up.
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