Kyle MacLachlan Says ‘I Owe My Entire Career’ and Life to ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ Director David Lynch: ‘The Most Authentically Alive Person I’d Ever Met’

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Michaela Zee Kyle MacLachlan has paid tribute to David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker known for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks,” who died at the age of 78. “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,” MacLachlan wrote Thursday in an Instagram post. “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 continued, “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.