Sky Ferreira on Working with David Lynch in ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘F*ck Up My Teeth, Give Me a Rash, I Literally Don’t Care’
Sky Ferreira is having her comeback, releasing her first new song in three years, “Leash,” for Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl.” Speaking to IndieWire, the 32-year-old pop star and actress reflected on her work with David Lynch. Ferreira cameo’d in the 2017 “Twin Peaks: The Return” revival as Ella — a woman with a terrible rash at the Roadhouse bar — and even covered “Blue Velvet” for him.
“There’s a lot of surprises, because you never know what you’re doing,” Ferreira told IndieWire. “It was funny, because you get the script maybe the day before. Like, I knew that I was doing ‘Twin Peaks,’ but I didn’t know what I was going to do. Literally the day before when I read it, I really didn’t know what I was going to do.
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“But when I was doing it, it suddenly made sense when he [David Lynch] was directing me,” she said. “And then after, right after, it was like being out of your body or something. I feel like everyone that works with him feels very connected to him and inspired by him. I’ve noticed that anytime anyone talks about working with him. It’s such a special, once in a lifetime experience, and it was literally my dream, and I couldn’t believe that I was in ‘Twin Peaks,’ it was such a big deal for me.”
Ferreira added, “When they asked me to do it, I wasn’t expecting it. It was very full circle. I’ve worked with David and for his foundation and stuff before, but only musically. After [my album] ‘Night Time, My Time,’ it’s very surreal.”
The album title was inspired by a line in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” when Laura Palmer says “nighttime is my time.” “It was like, ‘Yes, fuck up my teeth, give me a rash. I literally do not care. Give me an armpit infection. I will do anything.’ I got to wear the ring, which was pretty cool. It’s all in the details. As someone that’s so inspired by all of his work and seeing how it all connects, to be a part of that world in some way is really well, like, if I’ve ever had a goal, it happened.”
This summer, David Lynch collaborator Joan Chen spoke to IndieWire about regretting leaving the show, a decision that kept her out of the 2017 revival.
“When I heard that they were going to make ‘Twin Peaks’ again, of course, I wanted to go back, and I regret it very much,” she told IndieWire. “During the shooting of ‘Twin Peaks,’ I wanted to leave the show because I wanted to do a film called ‘Turtle Beach.’ And I loved the novel of ‘Turtle Beach,’ talking about Vietnamese and Chinese refugees’ life. And there was a character I really wanted to play. And also I sort of preferred the big screen back then. I don’t know why, but I felt like I wanted to leave the show.”
Chen added, “It was a revolutionary show, and because of that regret, I was like, ‘Oh, I could just go back. I want to go back.’ I wanted to write a letter to David to sort of kindle him some imagination and possibility, but obviously, it didn’t work.”
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