Kyle MacLachlan Hopes Nobody Tries to Reboot ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘Don’t Touch That!’
Kyle MacLachlan hopes he doesn’t see “Twin Peaks” again in 25 years.
The longtime David Lynch collaborator best known for playing FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper on the groundbreaking television show was asked about the possibility of a reboot while appearing at Canneseries to promote his role on “Fallout” (via Deadline). The actor made it very clear that he doesn’t want anyone but Lynch and his stable of collaborators to bring viewers back to the mysterious logging town.
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“I don’t think I’d want to see that and I don’t think anyone should attempt it,” he said when asked about a reboot, explaining that he already thinks too many shows are remade. “You are like, ‘Don’t touch that,’ but they do, they can’t help but put their hand on the stove again. That is the problem.”
MacLachlan went on to reflect on the show’s unlikely success when it premiered in 1990, explaining that Lynch’s surrealism and its unprecedented serialized format led many cast members to believe it would be quickly canceled.
“[The cast] all recognized how weird ‘Twin Peaks’ was,” he said. “We didn’t think it would get past ‘one and done’ and thought it might become a movie of the week but said that we had to be part of it because it is David Lynch.”
While MacLachlan doesn’t want to see the show rebooted, he has previously expressed his openness to suiting up as Dale Cooper again if Lynch decides to revive “Twin Peaks.” In a 2020 conversation with IndieWire, he refused to rule out a hypothetical return to the character, though he gave a blunt answer when asked if he knew anything about future plans for the series. “That is in the mind of David Lynch, where it will stay hidden,” he said.
While MacLachlan has been a regular presence in Lynch’s project since playing Paul Atreides in his 1984 take on “Dune,” he once told The A.V. Club that he doesn’t claim to understand the auteur’s cryptic work any more than fans do.
“I don’t pretend to understand much of what David does,” MacLachlan said in 2022. “But I do recognize that I’m his conduit through these worlds, and that’s a challenge — and also, I feel pretty good about that. There’s a confidence that I understand what’s necessary for me to do with David. And I think sometimes, and I think it happens in Hollywood a lot, there’s a template that you are stamped with when you’re identified with a certain something, and you can either choose to reinforce that template or try to recast the template. You want to melt it down and start again. But I just kept coming back to it.”
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