Naomi Watts said on Tuesday that she almost quit acting before David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive. "He was very instrumental to me. Even being in America, I wouldn't have stayed had I not have met David Lynch,

Naomi Watts revealed on “Live With Kelly and Mark” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she nearly quit acting before she met the late David Lynch, who cast her as the lead in 2001’s “Mulholland Drive.” The film’s critical acclaim and global success turned Watts into a star after “10 years” of “flunking auditions.

David Lynch’s children Jennifer, Austin, Riley, and Lula shared a joint tribute to the filmmaker via X on Saturday, Jan. 18. The four-time Oscar nominee died on Jan. 16 at age 78.

It would be convenient to say that I was so cool that I watched it on purpose, an artsy queer suburban kid desperate for culture. I happened upon it by some mysterious channel surfing synchronicity and kept watching,

The director himself came off as almost performatively normal. Masterpieces like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive” said otherwise.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos recently posted about his love of David Lynch, and he revealed that Netflix and Lynch would have teamed up.

David Lynch 's four kids are remembering their dad after his death by inviting fans to honor his legacy. In a post from the late director X's account on Saturday, his children Jennifer, Austin, Riley, and Lula Lynch shared a joint statement to pay tribute to their dad, calling him "a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace."

That line gets to the heart of the work of the filmmaker, whose family announced his death Jan. 16, 2025. Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.

The world lost one of its premiere film auteurs when David Lynch died last week. It also lost a fascinating visual artist.

As for the why David Lynch deigned to do this, the man explained his reasoning in a tweet. Series creator Mike Henry asked him to do it.

“The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child,” a synopsis from Thalian Hall states.