Naomi Watts Says ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director David Lynch “Put Me On The Map”

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“My heart is broken. My Buddy Dave…” began Mulholland Drive star Naomi Watts on Instagram about the death of that pic’s filmmaker David Lynch today. “The world will not be the same without him.

His creative mentorship was truly powerful,” she wrote. “He put me on the map. The world I’d been trying to break into for ten plus years, flunking auditions left and right,” said the British born actress whose career took a 180 skyward following her turn the L.A.

noir movie which Lynch morphed from a deep-sixed ABC TV pilot into an Oscar nominated movie from Universal. She played doppelganger roles in Mulholland Drive of Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn. “Finally, I sat in front of a curious man, beaming with light, speaking words from another era, making me laugh and feel at ease.

How did he even ‘see me’ when I was so well hidden, and I’d even lost sight of myself?!” She continued, “It wasn’t just his art that impacted me – his wisdom, humor, and love gave me a special sense of belief in myself I’d never accessed before.