It's considered one of TV's greatest mysteries. Now through Monday, catch up on #TwinPeaks during the #Showtime free preview weekend! pic.twitter.com/6hrv72fXhK

— Showtime (@Showtime) February 17, 2017

RIP Warren Frost, father of Mark, ATWT's Lindsay and TP staff writer Scott, and Twin Peaks' own Doc Hayward. Frost taught acting for years, but also recurred on Seinfeld as the father of George's beleaguered fiancee Susan; Frost played opposite TP's Grace Zabriskie as Susan's mother.

 

I'm glad he got to return once more as Doc.

We are so very sorry to hear about the passing of Warren Frost. Heartbroken. pic.twitter.com/GfgKKK5sjl

— Twin Peaks (@TwinPeaksArchve) February 18, 2017

Dear Twitter friends: Sharing sad news with you today. Thanks for all your good thoughts and sympathies.https://t.co/9sLRzODvfO

— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) February 18, 2017

These haven't been the best few years for the cast...

 

He lived a long and good life, which is the main thing, but I'm sorry to hear he passed. He added such a dose of normality to the show that helped make you connect more to the town and to the case. That was critical in those early episodes and those early scenes of finding Laura's body. 

They made sure to include him in the new show for at least one scene - I suspect his scenes may have included Alicia Witt as Gersten Hayward, but I have no idea. Both he and his grandson, Mark Frost's youngest kid, are in the new show.

Warren Frost was also Iva's father on ATWT, Jared Carpenter#1   RIP

Missing my Pop tonight, lovely tribute by my brother❤ https://t.co/sUvpgIQjGi

— Lindsay Frost Art (@LindsayFrostArt) February 18, 2017

Forgive their typo on 'asparagus'.

 

 

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN. #TwinPeaks 5/21/17 pic.twitter.com/8Wr9SCYgU2

— Twin Peaks (@TwinPeaksArchve) February 18, 2017

TONIGHT on #TwinPeaksSundays, Audrey joins the search to find #WhoKilledLauraPalmer, but she has an ulterior motive. #Cooprey
7p/6c on SHO2 pic.twitter.com/g4rEDwFujk

— Twin Peaks (@SHO_TwinPeaks) February 19, 2017

Mädchen talks Riverdale and Twin Peaks some more - I think that show is a very stylish mess with hot talented young people (especially the two girls playing Veronica and Betty) which is trying way too hard to be ahead of the curve and tripping all over itself, but she's really good in a very un-Shelly role, and Luke Perry is surprisingly solid as Archie's dad.

 

IGN: Moving over to Twin Peaks’ return, was it just surreal for you to be back doing it again?

 

Amick: It was. The first few days back on set I was crying the whole time. I was constantly fighting tears the whole time. It was touching, it was moving, it was surreal that we get the opportunity to revisit it and revisit it in a way that is appropriate for the show and celebrates the show that isn’t just a comeback or a reunion. Not to say that's not great for all the other shows that are happening, but this is more of a continuation of that same world instead of a reboot. It's not a reboot. It's just now seeing the characters 25 years later and seeing what they've been up to. People that love Twin Peaks will enjoy it and they'll get to see a lot of stuff obviously that they are familiar with. But for a new audience that comes to it, they're just going to love it for what it is at this point.

 

IGN: When you saw the new scripts, did it instantly feel like classic Twin Peaks or was it a little different this time?

 

Amick: David Lynch and Mark Frost wrote it, and it's right back. It's right back where it should be. That was the first thing I had done as an actress, and now coming back to it this many years later, I appreciate how they work - how David and Mark work and how David directs and what kind of environment he creates that's just a special, one of a kind thing. It was great going back to it. I have a different appreciation for it now.

 

IGN: There were so many questions over the years about whether Twin Peaks would ever return. Did you think it could come back?

 

Amick: Through the years, absolutely not. “It's not going to come back. You can't do that again. That was perfection. Let's leave it alone.” To be honest, I didn't really ever think about it coming back out on Showtime and that created a completely different environment where you can embrace it and do it in the right way. I sort of was always thinking there's no way this could come back out on network television. When it finally did come out in the way that it was going to be formatted, I was like, oh my god, this is brilliant.

 

IGN: Alice and Shelley are very different characters. Is it exciting for you that both of these shows are going to air pretty close to each other?

 

Amick: I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters. Back in the mid 90s I went to a film festival and they were airing Central Park West at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called French Exit and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character. One was blonde and blue eyed and the other one was raven haired and smokey eye... Now to be able to have this opportunity again to be playing this "momster" Alice Cooper, over-controlling suburban housewife, and get to go come and revisit Shelley [sic] and her innocence and where she is now, I just feel really grateful and lucky.

"Leo missed the boat with you, baby." - Bobby#BobbyAndShelly #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksSundays pic.twitter.com/ptfdEyB9Ml

— Twin Peaks (@SHO_TwinPeaks) February 20, 2017

Thanks for posting those. They're a very clever touch. 

Potemkine Films, a French film company, is releasing a Lynch documentary in the coming months; as part of their promotional effort on Twitter they inadvertantly released an image of a handwritten(!) script page for the new Twin Peaks. It can be seen here.

The text as far as I can make it out is as follows:

 

"...is on the TV in the living room. We enter the film and it becomes the reality. Cole has a dream of speaking with Monica Bellucci in a side walk [sic] cage in Paris - They are discussing "We are like the dreamer who dreams - then lives inside the dream." And then Monica asks Cole "Who is the dreamer? Whose dream are we living in?" She (He?) says "Cooper was there with me but I couldn't see his face." (We see only the back of Cooper wearing his black suit.)

 

This seems to correspond to filming done in Paris near the end of the shoot at a sidewalk cafe.

The cast discusses the original show with Little White Lies. I did not know Kimmy did the TP phone helpline as Lucy in character.

Twin Peaks is doing SXSW.

 

Tomorrow is Twin Peaks Day (the anniversary of the in-series date of the pilot/Laura's body being found), and the first issue of The Blue Rose, the new magazine from the co-creator of the legendary Wrapped in Plastic fanzine, is out. Check it out here or buy it digitally on Amazon, as I will.

Edited February 24, 20178 yr by Vee