Lara Flynn Boyle Remembers Her ‘Twin Peaks’ Creator David Lynch: “There Goes The True Willy Wonka Of Filmmaking”

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EXCLUSIVE: David Lynch had a great knack for discovering leading lady talent, actresses who would ascend to bigger heights.

One of those is Lara Flynn Boyle, who played the role of Donna Hayward in Lynch’s early 1990s ABC series Twin Peaks. “There goes the true Willy Wonka of filmmaking,” exclaimed the actress in a statement to Deadline, “I feel like I got the golden ticket getting a chance to work with him.

He will be greatly missed.” The arrival of Boyle was declared in an October 1990 Rolling Stone cover that she shared with fellow Twin Peaks actress Sherilynn Fenn and Mädchen Amick which heralded “The Women of Twin Peaks” Boyle’s Donna Hayward was the fierce, straight arrow in a Northwest town of wackos in Twin Peaks; the innocent young high school student having spent time with her best friend Laura Palmer in the final days before Laura’s murder.

Donna’s friendship with Laura prompted her to be brought in for questioning by Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean) and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan).