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Twin Peaks

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Chrysta Bell discusses TP on her blog:

 

I had never indulged in one moment of fantasy about being in Twin Peaks if it did actually return. Even after all the years of collaboration with David, it just never crossed my mind that he would ask me to be a part of it. But I had been short sighted. Looking back, I can see now that the process of creating two albums together was also a 15- year audition for a different gig!

 

During a coffee break in one of our final recording sessions for Somewhere in The Nowhere, David coyly revealed to me that “there may be a role for you in my new project”. I had been emotionally preparing for the chapter of our artistic collaboration days coming to a end, and suddenly David presents a riveting plot twist. True to form, he kept pertinent details about the role shrouded with intrigue for a long time after initially approaching the subject, dispersing small, tantalizing morsels about my character over the course of many months. The drip feed of intel left me starving for answers to my burning questions: Was it a walk-on part or a larger role? Does the part involve me singing at some point? Who would I be working with? Am I going to die on the show? I was fully lit up by this unexpected development and my excitement and curiosity were all- consuming from that moment forward.

 

The drip feed of intel left me starving for answers to my burning questions: Was it a walk-on part? Does the part involve me singing at some point? Am I going to die?

 

Many months passed before I was finally invited to read the script and get some of my questions answered. I drove to the Rancho Rosa office in Van Nuys, California, on August 25, 2015, bubbling with nerves. After checking in with reception I had a quick meeting with David who was all smiles. He knew I was about to dive in and was quite aware I was dying of suspense by that point. He sent me to the office next door where a friendly brunette man handed me a thick script. I asked him if it was for the entire show. When he smiled and told to me that no, these were only my scenes from the full script, I had my first inner meltdown of the day.

 

I noticed my character name had the number 8 next to it (I happen to have this number tattooed on my inner left ankle) and I asked the man what that meant. He told me it referenced how much screen time my character has, thus, Tammy had the 8th most screen time of all the characters in the show. I tried to stay cool but I am sure the look on my face was anything but. My heart started beating triple time and I could feel my body heat rising. My biggest fear and simultaneously my grandest hope had just been revealed to me: I have a big part in this thing. As I walked out of his office with the stack of papers in my sweaty hand, I dissolved into a nervous euphoria which devolved into raging self doubt: How am I going to pull this off? Has David lost his [!@#$%^&*] mind?

 

Under the florescent bulbs in the empty production office where I was sent to look over the script, I sat down and tried to collect myself. I was dying of curiosity and trembling with trepidation. I took a few more deep breaths and started reading.

With every page there was an avalanche of new information and fresh mysteries unfolding. Tammy’s vague silhouette was being being filled in with bold colors and subtle shading. I was finally meeting her formally and peeking into her preordained fate. As I read slowly and intently, it was as if I was gingerly sifting through a treasure chest of information, discovering Tammy’s interactions and fascinating dynamics with Gordon, Albert, Diane! It was overwhelming enough, and then I read the words:

I’m in.


This is what FBI Agent Tammy Preston says after being invited to become the first female member of the infamous Blue Rose Task Force.

 

I was overcome with this development. I think I started crying and laughing and just staring into space, all at once. The significance of my character’s initiation to the blue rose task force was astronomical. Tammy would be joining an elite FBI team that included Philip Jeffries, Gordon Cole, Dale Cooper and Albert Rosenfield and be investigating highly classified projects having to do with the paranormal. I was joining a coterie of legendary artists David Bowie, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, and Miguel Ferrer bonded by a fictional task force assigned to investigate the supernatural on a prestigious legacy TV show that was incalculably important in the history of pop culture. It was almost impossible to wrap my head around. But in the moments after reading it those words, “I’m in”, I felt Tammy Preston and Chrysta Bell Zucht inextricably linked and steadfast in the acceptance of the missions being presented. Tammy was being inducted into the Blue Rose Task Force and I was being inducted into Twin Peaks. In both cases, any hint of dubiousness of our worthiness of the position had been tempered once the gauntlet had been thrown down. We both would strive to pass every test. We each accepted with a sense of elation mixed with fear, but total unwavering commitment.

 

As I continued reading the script, waves of understanding rippled through me and my participation in Twin Peaks: The Return started to make sense. David and I, like Gordon and Tammy, have an easy repartee and strong mutual respect. David has been a mentor for me in many ways and always offered thoughtful counsel. He had championed me to others when it really mattered and believed in me as a musician and performer, just as Gordon believes “Agent Tammy Preston has the stuff.” As wild and out-of-the-blue as this opportunity felt, it was dawning on me that it was completely appropriate. As I let it all sink into my consciousness, it felt as if I was reading an ancient poem that eloquently expressed a deep and powerful emotion I had never before been able to describe in words.

 

I finished reading the script and left the production office in a daze. I think I said goodbye to David but I don’t remember. My bewilderment over the circumstance in which I found myself reverberated over days and months. As the actuality of this destiny began to crystallize, so did the blue rose symbol in my consciousness. It became a fixture in my self identity; the tidy icon of my wild and rampant vortex of feelings around becoming a part of the Twin Peaks Universe.

 

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    Lynch's longtime cinematographer Peter Deming (who did Season 3), along with the FB page run by several original castmembers, both posted this online maybe less than a day apart. Coincidence or coordination? Who knows.

     

     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    #snoqualmie #snoqualmiefalls

    A post shared by peter deming (@peter_deming) on

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    The 25 Years Later fansite interviews Joy Nash (Senorita Dido).

     

    I may have posted this one before but it's worthwhile: A Kimmy Robertson interview.

     

    AG: Another scene I wanted to ask about was when the Log Lady passed away. That always stuck out even more, just knowing that Catherine Coulson really had passed away and that what happened on screen was basically what happened off screen. The reaction from everyone in the Sheriff’s station felt so real. What was it like filming that scene?

     

    KR: I believe we shot that on a Friday and found out that Monday. When we got to set there was a little notice in each of our dressing rooms. We all came outside and were hugging each other and there was nothing we could say other than “What?” We all thought she was getting better. What I had heard was that David and Peter Deming had gone to see her in her house in Oregon but that wasn’t what happened. There was another camera crew that went there. I guess that should’ve told us something but I had just seen her at the Twin Peaks Festival and she was thin but beautiful, happy and positive. She left early to go back and do a play that night. She was unstoppable. Back to your question, we weren’t supposed to film that Friday but they added that day. We came in and it was very quiet. David didn’t let anyone near the conference room. I don’t know if you know how the Sheriff’s station is setup but there’s a hallway and then doors and then everyone’s offices and the conference room is at the end. There was nobody sitting in the halls like normal. No crew, no machines, nothing. All the lights were down really low, just like when he shot it. David stood up and made a speech about Catherine and how much we love her and he was sad, obviously, on the inside. On the outside he was being the director. They got everything over and he called me over and told me what I was going to say and asked me if I could cry and I told him yeah. He then talked to Harry [Goaz] and asked him to put his hands on my shoulders or touch me in some way. We did two or three takes of the scene and that was that.

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    A lovely new TP site c/o a certain someone: The Mauve Zone.

     

     

     

     

     

    I should add - there is a massive amount of new BTS pix from Season 3 and others on that site that are very worth looking at.

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    Thank you for mentioning all these lovely photos I never would have known of otherwise. 

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    I can never keep track of TP dates...

     

    (was the store the place we saw in FWWM?)

     

    That Lara Flynn Boyle "bad girl Donna" photo makes me laugh a bit. That was such a bad decision on the show's part - I know it was what LFB wanted, but boy she couldn't carry it off.

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    I think LFB's big scene with Harold in which she tells him the story about her and Laura from Laura's diary is actually some of her very best work. But I agree that much of the material did not suit the character.

     

    The convenience store (which was seen in Season 3 when Mr. C visited Jeffries) is also presumably the one seen in FWWM and the one MIKE spoke of in Cooper's dream.

     

    From awhile ago:

     

     

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    I read that Riverdale's next episode is going to be called "Fire Walk With Me."

     

    Ugh. I hate, hate, hate that [!@#$%^&*] piece of [!@#$%^&*] ass show so [!@#$%^&*] much. Lazy, derivative trash that actually asks viewers to be turned by the exploitation and abuse of young girls, and they are taking a title from THAT movie, of all movies? 

     

    Piece of [!@#$%^&*]. 

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    Pretty sure I posted this before, but this is a pretty much pitch-perfect fan creation of the classic "previously on Twin Peaks" recaps from the original series run that ran at the start of each new episode, right down to the regularly-used Laura's theme cue and the cutting. This fan put together a 'previously' recap to run before Part 18 of Season 3, incorporating footage from all three seasons and FWWM.

     

    The use of the Audrey scene gets me, because that moment is extremely reminiscent of this scene with Grace Zabriskie from Lynch's Inland Empire, and was our first indication of something deeper going on with Audrey's cryptic storyline in Season 3. When the Arm/MFAP echoes Audrey and asks about "the little girl who lives down the lane" in Part 18, it still makes my blood run cold.

     

     

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