Latest / The Art of Costume Podcast / Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me & The Return
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- 0:07Costume Podcast. I'm Elizabeth Joy Glass.
- 0:11He he, he's spreading that on me too quick.
- 0:14I wasn't able to. I wasn't able to think.
- 0:19And I'm Spencer Williams. Hello.
- 0:24Spencer Williams, the log man. Yeah, and I'm a log lady named
- 0:28Spencer Williams. There you go.
- 0:30There. You go, there you go.
- 0:32Thank. You Hi everyone, welcome to the
- 0:35Art of Costume podcast. Thank you for joining us for our
- 0:38Twin Peaks episode. Yeah, I can't believe you didn't
- 0:42have one ready, Spencer. Well, there's just so many
- 0:47options of Twin Peaks. There's the limit does not exist
- 0:52on weird things. I could have did I actually know
- 0:54what I wanted to do? I wanted to somehow like figure
- 0:58out how they do that weird voice in the the Black Lodge and see
- 1:02if I could figure out how to like recreate that.
- 1:07Is this future Bro? Here's this best Do you know who
- 1:17I am? I am the arm and I sound blush.
- 1:29This. But that would have took amount
- 1:32of time that I did not have in the 15 seconds you gave me just
- 1:37now. And I'm sure they did that after
- 1:42the fact and sound mixing I'm sure that was not.
- 1:45Postscript Yeah, which I and I don't know if I could do that
- 1:50anymore, but we'll we'll give it another shot.
- 1:52But yeah, anyways, hello everyone.
- 1:55Welcome back. We're so excited.
- 1:57We are finally here with the conclusion of our David Lynch
- 2:02series as we are talking about an incredible show, Twin Peaks.
- 2:08Well, not just one show, we're talking about two shows and a
- 2:12film today. We have a lot to get into.
- 2:14We have a lot to get into, so Spencer, do you want to
- 2:19introduce us to our director and give us a summary of Twin Peaks,
- 2:23Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me and Twin Peaks The Return?
- 2:29Yeah, I do if. That's even possible.
- 2:32Well, today's summary was really just written for Twin Peaks, but
- 2:37I think it just kind of, it kind of is just overarching
- 2:40encompasses everything. Yeah, I.
- 2:43Can't really summarize at all. No, but Twin Peaks was created
- 2:48by David Lynch and Mark Frost. You will know David Lynch of
- 2:53course for Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at
- 2:58heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire of course.
- 3:04The 1st 2 episodes of our David Lynch series were Dune and Blue
- 3:08Velvet. If you have not yet checked out
- 3:11those two episodes, I really suggest you go and check them
- 3:15out. We had a lot of fun putting
- 3:17together those episodes and I believe those that listened to
- 3:20them had a good time because the audience reaction has been quite
- 3:24positive. So please go check them out.
- 3:26But now for summary for Twin Peaks.
- 3:29Yes, set in the mysterious Pacific Northwest town of Twin
- 3:33Peaks, the series begins with the shocking murder of
- 3:37homecoming Queen Laura Palmer, sent to investigate the case
- 3:42eccentric FBI agent Dell Cooper, and covers a world filled of
- 3:47secrets, strange dreams and deeply troubled residents where
- 3:51the owls are not what they seem and almost nothing is ever as it
- 3:55appears. Blending soap opera, melodrama,
- 3:58psychological horror and surreal humor, Twin Peaks remains 1 of
- 4:03televisions most haunting and influential cult classics.
- 4:07So settle in, pour yourself a damn fine cup of coffee.
- 4:11This is Twin Peaks. Yes, pour yourselves a damn fine
- 4:17cup of coffee and settle in for behind the costumes.
- 4:26That was actually, honestly, Spencer, that was a great
- 4:29summary. Oh, I thank you.
- 4:32I had to work in the coffee somewhere.
- 4:34Yeah, like I'm kind of surprised because I wasn't sure how you
- 4:38were going to do that. I.
- 4:40Mean we could have went on and on with that summary, honestly.
- 4:43We could. Have And then there is some
- 4:45Civil War reenactments and some giants and as a scary murderer
- 4:51and then, you know, the Dougies walking around in a casino.
- 4:55And gosh, just there's too much there was.
- 4:58Too much. You know what there's also a lot
- 5:02of for the Twin Peaks? Well, what should we call this?
- 5:05The Twin Peaks saga. Twin Peaks Multiverse.
- 5:10Twin Peaks Multiverse, That's probably better.
- 5:12Twin Peaks Multiverse. We have quite a few costume
- 5:16designers. So going behind the costumes for
- 5:21Twin Peaks, the original series, we have Patricia Norris, who
- 5:26completed the pilot, Sarah Markowitz, who did the rest of
- 5:31the series. For Fire Walk With Me, we have
- 5:34Patricia Norris and Twin Peaks The Return, we have Nancy
- 5:39Steiner say that's like simultaneously more and less
- 5:43costume designers than I thought there would be.
- 5:45Yeah. It's a lot.
- 5:48Well, Patricia Norris is like, you know, David Lynch is
- 5:51trusted, confident. We talked about Patricia Norris
- 5:54on the Blue Velvet episode. Should go back and check it out.
- 5:57So of course it makes sense that she would come back and do Fire
- 6:00Walk with me. But yeah, such a great group.
- 6:05Sarah Markowitz really killed it with Twin Peaks.
- 6:09She really set such a great tone with these two seasons.
- 6:12Of course, Patricia Norris, you know, set the tone of that
- 6:15pilot. But then Sarah Markowitz really
- 6:17carried it through those two seasons.
- 6:20I mean, it's that beyond that first pilot, the series really
- 6:24goes through a lot of different paths, I would say, beyond that
- 6:28first pilot. So she really had, they carried
- 6:31a torch to a lot of different places.
- 6:34And then a Nancy Steiner coming back to Twin Peaks to return all
- 6:38these years later really had to take the show in a whole new
- 6:41direction, as we all come to see later on.
- 6:46So Twin Peaks is quite the complicated show to do the
- 6:50costumes for, I would say. So Elizabeth, we have obviously
- 6:54a lot to talk about today and we're talking about the original
- 6:58series. We're going to be talking about
- 6:59the film, we're talking about the return.
- 7:03So we're going to break this up a little bit.
- 7:04We're going to talk about the original series and the film,
- 7:06and then we're going to take a little break and we have this
- 7:08special surprise today. We actually have a special guest
- 7:11that'll be joining us who was actually a key costumer on Twin
- 7:15Peaks Return. A friend of the podcast costume
- 7:18designer Jen Starzik will be joining us who is going to talk
- 7:22about her experience and who actually got to meet David Lynch
- 7:26and did fittings with Laura Dern for her role on Twin Peaks
- 7:32return. So she's going to tell us about
- 7:34her experience and, you know, meeting Hawk and all these
- 7:38characters. So she's going to talk about
- 7:40that experience. And of course, Elizabeth and I
- 7:43are going to talk about all these characters and their
- 7:46costumes and player one costume rule them all.
- 7:49So let's take a little quick break and we're going to get
- 7:51into everything Twin Peaks. We we have quite a doozy to get
- 7:55into. So let's get to.
- 7:56Oh yes, Spencer, now you know, finding information for Twin
- 8:06Peaks because it's from the 90s isn't the easiest thing in the
- 8:11world, but you, you managed. You managed to find some.
- 8:15I found, you know, something here and there.
- 8:18Twin Peaks at the time I think wasn't exactly known for its.
- 8:23I think people weren't looking at Twin Peaks at the time for
- 8:26its costumes though. I think nowadays, I think people
- 8:29now are seeing it for its costumes and the impact it had
- 8:33on fashion at the time because I mean Pacific Northwest and you
- 8:38know, it's inspiration on the 90s especially now people's
- 8:42nostalgia for a 90s fashion especially people will have a
- 8:46big look back at Twin Peaks. So I actually found this piece.
- 8:49I'm actually from the Los Angeles Times from May 9th.
- 8:55It was, it looks like it was a piece where they were, I can't
- 8:58tell if they were getting ready for Twin.
- 9:00I can't tell, but it was called Backwoods Where and it was a
- 9:06piece where they had some some quotes from Sarah Markowitz and
- 9:11it just had a little bit of a insight into what was happening
- 9:15here on Twin Peaks. And they had a couple of quotes
- 9:18that I thought was a good way to start our conversation into Twin
- 9:21Peaks, Sarah was quoted as saying.
- 9:25David felt very strongly that colors and textures had to match
- 9:29the environment. The big, the big challenge is
- 9:32not to have everyone in Plaid shirts and corduroy pants, said
- 9:36costume designer Sarah Markowitz.
- 9:38Which I think is interesting because you know we are going to
- 9:42be talking about Plaid shirts and corduroy pants quite a bit
- 9:44as we get into this series. Another thing that I thought was
- 9:49interesting was that Sarah said manufacturers gave Markowitz
- 9:53merchandise such as Periella suits and Harley-Davidson
- 9:56leather trench coats. She also donate items from her
- 9:59own closet, including an old Argyle sweater, a new black
- 10:02dress. Shopping took place at Banana
- 10:05Republic, Playmates on Hollywood Blvd. and plenty of thrift
- 10:10stores. Markowitz also said she spent
- 10:14$2000 in one day at the Salvation Army and also that
- 10:20clothes were dry clean and the tags were removed so the
- 10:23high-priced actors would not be offended by their low priced
- 10:27costumes. Which is hilarious, but I mean,
- 10:31that makes sense. I I would, I would really be
- 10:35shocked to see any high-priced items in Twin Peaks 'cause that
- 10:39this should not be a designer show.
- 10:42No, when I think of. Twin Peaks unless you are
- 10:45literally unless you are Josie. Like that's the only character I
- 10:49would think would be pretty much sort of anything remotely close
- 10:53to designer. Yeah, absolutely.
- 10:57That's I that's so interesting that manufacturers gave her
- 11:00things, I guess maybe from like David Lynch's.
- 11:05Reputation. Only reason is because David
- 11:08Lynch had like this catalog of incredible films.
- 11:11At this point, that's the only reason.
- 11:14Probably also did not know Harley-Davidson made trench
- 11:18coats. It might be Harley Davidson's
- 11:24contributions to our some of our teams, such as James of course.
- 11:32Of course. Perhaps.
- 11:33Speaking of our teens, the Riverdale before Riverdale
- 11:40teens. Oh my gosh, that's so true.
- 11:47We have Bobby Briggs and Shelly Johnson our our teenage.
- 12:00Troubled lovers. Troubled lover?
- 12:02Affair partners. And I'm like, really?
- 12:06Assuming Shelley's a teenager, she talks about dropping out of
- 12:10high school to marry that guy. So I'm like, what?
- 12:12She's like, what, 1819? We are to assume like a majority
- 12:16of these people are teenagers in this show even though we see
- 12:19them all in like high school for like 2 episodes in this entire
- 12:24series. Literally they talk about school
- 12:27but they are never at school. I don't know how any of them are
- 12:31graduating. They are all in school for like
- 12:33the first like 3 episodes when Laura Palmer dies and then they
- 12:38almost never come back until Nadine decides to go to high
- 12:41school all of a sudden. Yes, yes.
- 12:44Which catches me off guard. I I love Shelley, especially her
- 12:51costumes in this show because, well, it's considered like a 90s
- 12:55show. It's like right at the start of
- 12:59the 90s. So there there's actually a lot
- 13:02more 80s fashion, I would say than 90s.
- 13:07But I feel like Shelly is really where that 90s, you know, is
- 13:12starting to come in. Her and Bobby, the Plaid shirts,
- 13:16her kind of like oversized off the shoulder, all of her get ups
- 13:22and then her just like with a throwback of her like 1950s cute
- 13:26little waitress outfit. I love the diner costumes that
- 13:31like teal blue and the white. They're like, they're my
- 13:34favorite diner costumes I think I've ever seen.
- 13:37And same. I mean, I know it's not like too
- 13:39like innovative in terms of the diner costume, but something
- 13:43about like the combination of that color against that diner
- 13:47production design, it just works so perfectly.
- 13:50And I do love it 'cause like you can see how much thought has
- 13:55gone into the diner and it's 'cause you would expect it's,
- 13:58it's a small logging town. You would not expect much out of
- 14:02the local diner. Yeah.
- 14:04But clearly, like, the woman who runs it loves it.
- 14:07Shelley loves her job. Everyone looks so good.
- 14:11And you're like, oh, this is a community that, like, loves
- 14:14where they are. Yeah, and they.
- 14:16And loves what they. Do diner too.
- 14:18Clearly. I mean, Shelley has to.
- 14:20This is her escape from her clearly maniac, abusive husband.
- 14:26So. Yeah, and we talked about this
- 14:30in the last episode 2 Blue Velvet belt.
- 14:32Like clearly like something that David Lynch and his films love
- 14:36is like this timeless quality where like, yes, it takes place
- 14:39in the 90s, but like his films seem to always have this like
- 14:42quality where everything feels a little bit held backed.
- 14:45But like like you said, like has like almost like an 80s feel.
- 14:48It could even feel like at times like very 50s too at the same
- 14:52time. Yeah, sure, it's in the 90s, but
- 14:55it's almost like 90s fashion hasn't hit Twin Peaks yet,
- 14:59though. You.
- 15:00Know absolutely. That's very like Americana
- 15:03though, for like small like in middle of nowhere towns,
- 15:08everything. Everyone's just a little behind
- 15:10the times, including Donna and James.
- 15:15OH. I love Donna and James, I love
- 15:18this couple, even though James just has to make mistake after
- 15:22mistake every other episode. He just can't keep it in his
- 15:26pants. I read.
- 15:28Oh my gosh. He can't.
- 15:30And he's like, he's like this Moody trouble teen who rides his
- 15:34motorcycle and like, wears like the cool leather jackets, like
- 15:39he's a greaser from the 50s. Oh my God, I love this guy, but
- 15:43he is just every four to five episodes he's like, I gotta just
- 15:46ride, man. And he just goes out into the
- 15:48wilderness and he's like, sorry, Donna, I just had to go and run
- 15:53into this lady out of mill nowhere and just move in with
- 15:55her and just make out there for a couple of days.
- 15:57But for no. Reason.
- 15:58Don't worry, I'm. Still in love with you though,
- 16:00don't worry. Like I don't know what was wrong
- 16:03with me. This episode, directed by Diane
- 16:06Keaton, doesn't change how I feel about you.
- 16:11Do you think it's OK, James? I totally get it.
- 16:14It happens. She is far too forgiving.
- 16:18Her wardrobe is not though. It is kind of like the height of
- 16:23the 80s. I would say like peak 80s Cool.
- 16:28Totally Ferris Bueller's Day Off a little bit.
- 16:30Yes, absolutely. Like her, her chunky socks, the
- 16:35white sneakers, all of her sweaters, like Oh my goodness
- 16:42she she is peak 80s. I want to say that's how I felt
- 16:47about her. Yeah, she definitely has a
- 16:49little bit of the 80s trend. She kind of also like takes
- 16:53after James a little bit with like the leather jackets a
- 16:55little bit. She kind of like, and we kind of
- 16:57see this in the film Fire Walk With Me that she kind of also
- 17:01like blurs the line a little bit between like the bad, the bad
- 17:05boy look a little bit and like to like retain her innocence a
- 17:09little bit because she wants, you know, her best friend was
- 17:12Laura Palmer too. So she wants to like be in this
- 17:15like, kind of like dangerous world, but she also wants to
- 17:18like also stay away from that at the same time.
- 17:21So she goes back and forth a little bit.
- 17:23So you see that in her costumes, where she wants to be.
- 17:26Like. Innocent and soft and cute, but
- 17:28she also wants to get involved in all the danger as we see
- 17:32throughout Twin Peaks. I mean because she she's a
- 17:35teenager she wants to be included, but she also knows
- 17:40there is like a very blurry line between what is and isn't safe.
- 17:45Totally. I also love that James never
- 17:48changes like he's one of the people wear his costume there.
- 17:52Even in the return Twin Peaks return, I believe he shows up
- 17:55basically looking the same. Literally he has denim jeans, a
- 18:00leather jacket, and either a a Plaid shirt if he's being fancy
- 18:04or like a plain black tee. That's it, that is it.
- 18:09That's so dope. Honestly, I hope I show up for
- 18:13the art of costume. You know, the 11 millionth
- 18:17episode anniversary and I hope I'm wearing the same thing.
- 18:22Spencer, I you've had a pretty solid wardrobe since you
- 18:27graduated college, so I'm going to say that's a good bet that
- 18:31that is what's going to happen. If there was 1 character that I
- 18:37feel like really was like the fashion icon of Twin Peaks, it
- 18:43would have to be Audrey Horn. I mean this was like the 90s
- 18:49icon that I think like definitely like women were
- 18:53looking to also. I mean, she was the girl that
- 18:56had like the controlling father in Twin Peaks where she was
- 19:00going to high school all like dressed up very preppy.
- 19:04But then like she would like change her shoes when she got to
- 19:08her Walker and put on like these like kind of like risque red hot
- 19:12red heels. You know, trying to put it on
- 19:15for like new FBI agent that was clearly a lot older than her.
- 19:20Like, you know, just that angsty teen girl with the, like, really
- 19:24kind of cute Plaid skirts. Yeah.
- 19:29That's Audrey Horn for you it. Is and like I loved her wardrobe
- 19:33cuz you could tell it was expensive and she comes from a
- 19:36family of means but also a very dysfunctional family.
- 19:41So and like she was probably the person with the most costume
- 19:46pieces cuz I'm sure all her father does to placate her is
- 19:50throw money at her. And they literally own a
- 19:53department store. So she can probably go in there
- 19:55grab whatever she wants and walk out.
- 19:58That's true. Anybody asking her any
- 20:00questions? So yeah, I liked her.
- 20:03I felt like her for the teenagers.
- 20:06She definitely had the most sophisticated look because she
- 20:09is trying to be more adult and have like some control over her
- 20:14life and what's happening 'cause she has a very chaotic
- 20:18existence. Yeah, she's basically on her own
- 20:21for a majority of the time, so she's making all of these
- 20:23choices. And yeah, her dad's just
- 20:24throwing money at her to just kind of keep her quiet and
- 20:28preoccupied while he's doing all sorts of weird stuff until all
- 20:33comes crashing down. And then she's really just kind
- 20:35of, you know, running things. And she kind of then at that
- 20:39point really elevates herself and becomes like a businesswoman
- 20:42on her own. So she's a really interesting
- 20:45character in terms of Twin Peaks and costume design.
- 20:48Absolutely. After the teens, probably our
- 20:53most important set of characters are those in the Sheriff's
- 20:58Department. Oh man.
- 21:01I love. I love the Sheriff's Department.
- 21:03Same, same. And I, I think they actually
- 21:09might have less costume pieces than James because literally all
- 21:16they do is like wear their uniforms.
- 21:20You know, Sheriff Truman does have like a pretty cool, like,
- 21:24Plaid wool coat and a cowboy hat.
- 21:29But like Deputy Hawk, Deputy Andy, they're just chilling
- 21:34constantly in their uniforms. I love it though.
- 21:38I love just like small town Sheriff's Office that just like
- 21:42is the same group of people and they have the routine, you know,
- 21:46they come in, they always have like the aggressive boxes of
- 21:49doughnuts. They love their boxes, boxes and
- 21:53boxes. I don't know how they get
- 21:54through all these boxes of doughnuts.
- 21:56Honestly, There's not enough people in this office to get
- 21:59through them all. God, I love this group of
- 22:02people. So I love Sheriff Truman's coat
- 22:05'cause this is very Pacific Northwest.
- 22:08It's like a Plaid overcoat that he throws on every morning.
- 22:13I mean, with the cup of coffee, like as an accessory.
- 22:17Honestly, when you're walking around outdoors, like that cup
- 22:21of coffee mug, that mug is like an accessory to the Plaid
- 22:25overcoat. I.
- 22:27Also love like with the Plaid overcoat.
- 22:29He's almost like this is my fancy sheriff coat.
- 22:32Yeah, yeah. Which it?
- 22:36Absolutely is not. Sheriff Truman's probably my
- 22:42second favorite character. I don't know, he just something
- 22:44bound just has like such a comforting presence if he was my
- 22:48sheriff. Yeah, You know, I'd probably
- 22:52vote for him in local elections, honestly, because I know even
- 22:58even if he wasn't, you know, catching the killer, I know he's
- 23:01trying. Yeah.
- 23:01Yeah. Yeah, I do love Andy, though.
- 23:07Deputy Andy and Hawk. I love Hawk.
- 23:10I really do like all these. Hawk is great.
- 23:13I love Hawk. I've and I was so happy to see
- 23:16Hawk and Andy come back for return, too.
- 23:19That's so, so great. Andy's so funny.
- 23:24I don't know how he got a job in this department, but that's not
- 23:27for me to say no. I guess there's not a lot, not
- 23:31big employment pool in Twin Peaks, but you know.
- 23:35And I feel like only recently they started to have to deal
- 23:37with a major crime. Yeah.
- 23:40Yeah, that's true, but. Spencer, do you want to talk
- 23:46about my favorite character? Please.
- 23:50We've got Lucy the. Sheriff.
- 23:53Department secretary? Oh my gosh, talk about 80s
- 24:00fucking fashion. Her.
- 24:02Cardigans her sweaters, Half the time she's sitting at a desk so
- 24:06they give her these like, fantastic collars with lace and
- 24:10these huge broaches. Like what a style icon?
- 24:16She's hilarious and then she also, because she's seen that
- 24:18desk, her hair is as high as possible to make sure people
- 24:21could see her. And she has like the very like
- 24:24at the top of your head, like that's very 90s top of your head
- 24:28like ponytail. And then this she has the side
- 24:32like not our like truly 80s side ponytail, but a side ponytail
- 24:37all the same. Like, and I was just like, yes,
- 24:41Lucy. And like, good on you having two
- 24:44potential baby daddies in this small, small town.
- 24:47You get it, girl. Like.
- 24:50Clearly Lucy can't get it, even though she's often confused.
- 24:55She's the best. And I, yeah, I love the fact
- 24:57that everyone in this town is fawning over her as they should,
- 25:01because Lucy is the true catch of twin feaks.
- 25:04She's fantastic. She's hilarious and she has
- 25:08style and she's always, I love that every costume, the ones
- 25:12that we're looking at, she's always doing like a high, low
- 25:15thing. She has these embellished
- 25:18collars, she's mixing prints. She's she's doing all the things
- 25:22she has like a interesting necklace, or I mean, there's
- 25:27always something. There's always something and I
- 25:29love like, yes, she's the secretary, but they did it.
- 25:33Like they could have made her very drab, but she's clearly
- 25:36like young and fun and that's how she dresses.
- 25:39Right. Lucy should have been in the
- 25:44running for the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, but we'll she.
- 25:47Should have. Yeah, she should have.
- 25:49She's potentially my Miss Twin Peaks, but we got to talk about
- 25:53some townies because there's a lot of interesting characters in
- 25:56Twin Peaks that. OK.
- 25:58You know, there's some people that was just like, I don't know
- 26:00who, who comes up with these people and some storylines.
- 26:03I was like, I don't even know what's going on, but I just know
- 26:06I love this person. And it was.
- 26:11They were all a trip. First off, the log lady.
- 26:16Possibly my spirit animal. Pour one out for Log Lady please
- 26:22because. The log lady was incredible.
- 26:25The glasses, the cardigans, her log baby.
- 26:29Can we just? Say Elizabeth and I have been
- 26:31talking about this for weeks, but we really were going to come
- 26:34to set today with logs, but we just ended up, but we just ran
- 26:37out of time. I just we, we just didn't go out
- 26:40and bite firewood. But like, honestly, like if I
- 26:46moved to the Pacific Northwest and just decided to like be kind
- 26:49of crazy, I think this is what I would do.
- 26:54My log is telling me that I need to tell you all that this is
- 26:59potentially one of my one costumes to rule them all.
- 27:02Good choice. Good choice.
- 27:07She's just hilarious. I mean, and also like looking at
- 27:12her now, I'm like, I do see. I'm looking at you, Elizabeth.
- 27:16It is kind of like. You see the resemblance?
- 27:28The resemblance is kind of creepy.
- 27:31You can see me being crazy like this, right?
- 27:34Yeah, I love that she brings her log everywhere too.
- 27:38Like, she'll show up to the diner and be like, you know, a
- 27:42coffee for me and one for the log, please.
- 27:44What she's supposed to do, leave it at home alone.
- 27:47It knows things, Spencer. It needs.
- 27:49To observe the town I love. In the return, what she calls
- 27:53Hawk and she's like relaying messages from the log to Hawk
- 27:59and he's just like, right, right.
- 28:01And like telling Sheriff Truman's brother being like,
- 28:05yeah. And he's totally like, matter of
- 28:07fact, like, well, the log said blah, blah, blah.
- 28:09And Sheriff Truman's brother's like, so the log and he's like,
- 28:13yes, like that's what the log said.
- 28:16Get with it. Because he has seen the log be
- 28:20correct. Yeah, yeah.
- 28:24I'm sorry, are you new here? He he was.
- 28:27He was. But we also have the best
- 28:36husband in Twin Peaks, probably Big Ed Hurley in Twin Peaks.
- 28:43None of the husbands in Twin Peaks are great, but considering
- 28:48what he's up against. That is fair, that is.
- 28:51Fair like. Big Ed, who is also kind of like
- 28:55in love with someone else, but he still does it in a very I
- 29:00guess. I mean, he's not like, I guess
- 29:05he's not like going behind her back completely in the way I
- 29:10guess and. He's taking care of her.
- 29:12It's not like he's like ignoring her or anything like.
- 29:16We're talking about Big Ed and his wife.
- 29:19Wife, right? They're married.
- 29:22Yeah, yeah. Big Ed and his wife, Nadine
- 29:26Hurley. Yeah, Nadine is a trip.
- 29:29Nadine. It is a trip, although quite
- 29:34frankly she dresses pretty well even when she loses most of her
- 29:38memory and thinks she's in high school like.
- 29:41Yeah, so I have to admit, I think I fell asleep when
- 29:45whatever happened that made her lose her memory because I woke
- 29:49up and next thing you know, she's in high school in the
- 29:51cheerleading uniform. Trigger warning she took too
- 29:57many sleeping pills. Oh, I do remember that.
- 30:01Yes. OK.
- 30:03Yeah. So I guess I just don't remember
- 30:06whatever happened to lead her to do that, I guess is what
- 30:09happened. Oh, I think she couldn't get a
- 30:13patent for for her blind invention.
- 30:18OK, yeah, See that's that's that's the blind spot I forgot.
- 30:22I guess that's that's the Gray area that I must have missed.
- 30:25I. I I'm pretty sure that that was
- 30:28unfortunately Nadine's trigger event.
- 30:34OK. But he has a big Ed and Nadine.
- 30:37Such a great couple. Well was a great couple until
- 30:41they both went their separate ways I guess.
- 30:44Nadine in high school, some great moments.
- 30:48But no, Nadine did have a great great fashion sense before she
- 30:53went off the deep end and ended up in high school again.
- 30:56But those were some fun, fun costume moments, seeing her in
- 31:00high school again. Absolutely, absolutely.
- 31:05That was wild. Gosh, but I think my other
- 31:09favorite character though, in terms of costumes has to be
- 31:13Josie though. Josie looked incredible the
- 31:17entire time. Josie was high fashion.
- 31:20Yeah, Josie, like new style. She the moment I saw her, I was
- 31:25like, Oh yeah, this is one of the characters we talked about
- 31:28in the episode. And like her big fur coat, just
- 31:31like watch just watching them examine poor Laura's body.
- 31:38Like she was like man she might have killed her for all I know,
- 31:43but literally she looks good doing it.
- 31:46She did like, and I love that. Like, they're very much like,
- 31:50yeah, she just goes to Seattle and shops every now and then and
- 31:53she just comes back when she comes back.
- 31:55Yeah, yeah. And actually, it's funny you
- 31:59said that cause from that newspaper clipping, Sarah
- 32:03Markowitz actually said everything about her is out of
- 32:05place. My feeling is she shops in
- 32:08Seattle or New York or somewhere from her past and we just don't
- 32:11know about it. So that's why when you see her,
- 32:13she so feels different from everyone in Twin Peaks because
- 32:17she doesn't shop in Twin Peaks. She's not buying the flannels
- 32:21and the all these other prints. She does not buy her clothes
- 32:25here. She goes somewhere.
- 32:26Else Yeah. And she, you know, she has a ton
- 32:31of money because she's a widow who inherited like a butt load
- 32:38of money. And so she has the freedom to
- 32:40just hop on a plane, get out of there and go shopping.
- 32:44Yeah, exactly. That also brings us to two other
- 32:50characters, Catherine. And Pete?
- 32:53I loved Pete. Pete was a sweet baby Angel.
- 32:57He was but his wife though. Spooky lady.
- 33:02So spooky, like Pete, he's so clear.
- 33:06Like he just looks like a fisherman at all times.
- 33:09Like. That's.
- 33:11Fair. Like kind of like he looks like
- 33:13he belongs in the Andy Griffith Show.
- 33:15Like, like those were the vibes I was receiving from Pete.
- 33:22And then Katherine just, you know, she's well dressed, but
- 33:28she's Twin Peaks well dressed. She like, yeah, she can go to
- 33:32the department store and buy whatever she wants, but she's
- 33:36still not leaving Twin Peaks to buy anything.
- 33:39Yeah, she gives like, like business woman type.
- 33:44Like she could go to like like the head of like a table at any
- 33:49like serious business meeting and everyone would pay attention
- 33:53to her type. And she means business and she's
- 33:57she's scary. You know she's.
- 33:59She's terrifying, my gosh. I don't she she makes me
- 34:03nervous. Scary is definitely a little bit
- 34:06of an understatement when it comes to her, but you know who
- 34:11absolutely is not scary? Spencer.
- 34:15My hero, Special Agent Dale Cooper.
- 34:19Special Agent Dale Cooper, another baby Angel of this
- 34:22series. Played by the great Kyle
- 34:25McLaughlin. I love him.
- 34:28I absolutely love him. He is by far my favorite
- 34:32character of the series. I I have to admit I'm not down
- 34:37with Twin Peaks return. I have just a few more episodes.
- 34:40I'm not sure where we're going with his character yet, so don't
- 34:44tell me, but in terms of twin pixo, he was like the best.
- 34:52And I love his costumes because they're hilarious to me.
- 34:57Because I love the commitment to the bit of wearing this fucking
- 35:01overcoat from beginning to end. Because clearly, like the
- 35:06uniform of the FBI, for some reason, it is like this weird,
- 35:11like almost like men in black overcoat where they just have to
- 35:15wear it no matter the weather, time of day, indoor, outdoor,
- 35:21you know, at the beach. I mean, I no matter what, we got
- 35:27to wear this overcoat. I very much think because there
- 35:31is like a an alienish element to this show.
- 35:38Like there's some stuff about outer space.
- 35:40So I feel like they don't fully go into it.
- 35:43So I very much think like him and his colleagues are supposed
- 35:47to be the men in black. It feels that way especially
- 35:50when a spoiler alert when we get into Fire Walk with Me, when
- 35:53David Bowie shows up all the sun, I was like, OK, are we
- 35:56watching Men in Black? Literally.
- 36:00And like, I love there is a part in Season 2 where, you know,
- 36:05Special Agent Dale Cooper is taking off active duty, and one
- 36:09of his coworkers comes along and is like, you know, we dress so
- 36:13stylishly, but you pull off the Plaid look.
- 36:19It's so funny. 'Cause they actually all do look
- 36:22really good. It's like they don't just wear
- 36:24like stuffy suits, they wear like tailored suits.
- 36:28Like all the FBI agents who come to Twin Peaks look fucking good.
- 36:34Yeah, they always look good. I'm like and like the overcoats
- 36:37never look bad. It's just like a hilarious like
- 36:40kind of uniform that's always like big and like for them.
- 36:45To be. For them to be like agents to
- 36:48that are usually not supposed to be like noticeable, they're
- 36:51like, clearly noticeable. Especially when you meet David
- 36:55Lynch's character, Gordon Cole, the most noticeable person
- 37:00you'll ever meet. Like you know?
- 37:03Absolutely. I don't think they're supposed
- 37:05to be inconspicuous, but I I think they're supposed to be
- 37:08like distinguished and clean cut.
- 37:11But they do it very well. Yeah, but you do see Dale Cooper
- 37:16and like some, he's not always wearing an overcoat like I am
- 37:19being like exaggerating a little bit, but he wears it a lot,
- 37:21which I do love. He does wear like some tailored
- 37:24suits occasionally and just. His pyjama sets.
- 37:28Yeah, he wears the pyjama sets. He does wear the timing suits
- 37:31occasionally and he always does look like really tailored and
- 37:35fine all time. It's no wonder why.
- 37:37You know some of the characters like follow them quite easily.
- 37:43Even the underage quote UN quote like teenager characters.
- 37:48Yeah, he handles it very well though.
- 37:51He does, Yeah. God give it credit to Adele
- 37:53Cooper. He's surrounded by temptations
- 37:56in this town, and he is a professional through and
- 37:59through. Absolutely.
- 38:00He doesn't fall to temptation 'cause he puts it all to bed.
- 38:06Oh, I guess that's not a way to put it.
- 38:08But not in that bed he puts it away in.
- 38:12He he very politely. Says.
- 38:15No, thank you. But I can be like a Big Brother.
- 38:20He's like, do you need to talk about your problems?
- 38:23I I can help you. I can help you with that at the.
- 38:27Cafe. Not in my hotel room though.
- 38:31Yeah, yeah. But he always looks good.
- 38:35He comes from like, he almost feels kind of like outer
- 38:39spacious, like he comes from another town.
- 38:42He just looks like you're like, whoa, this guy's not from Twin
- 38:44Peaks. He's not from here.
- 38:46No, he's not. So especially when he's next to
- 38:49like, Sheriff Truman, you're like, these people are from like
- 38:51two different worlds. Two entirely different worlds,
- 38:55but the world in Twin Peaks is fairly diverse because we've got
- 39:00One Eyed Jacks and yeah. It's.
- 39:05Interesting. It reminds me of like when we
- 39:07were talking about Blue Velvet. Remember when we watched that,
- 39:10like, interview of like that Canadian news channel and they
- 39:14were like, what's the point of Blue Velvet?
- 39:15And they were just talking about like, oh, it's like about this,
- 39:18like, seems like a perfect town. But then you get into like this
- 39:21criminal underworld and you're like, oh, like this perfect town
- 39:25you thought, like it's actually not so perfect.
- 39:27There's like this whole different world underneath.
- 39:29There's like an evil underbelly to.
- 39:32It you get to Twin Peaks and you're like, hi, do you not see
- 39:36this like weird? Like where all the teenage girls
- 39:40apparently work. Yeah, and like you get to 1 Eyed
- 39:44Jacks and we have this like weird casino themed, like
- 39:48brothel type. It's really bizarre, actually.
- 39:52And like, I was really curious, 'cause I was like, I guess they
- 39:57made all of these. I don't know.
- 39:59But then when you said she shopped at Playmates on
- 40:02Hollywood Blvd., I was like. That's that makes sense.
- 40:07That makes sense 'cause. I'm like all of these, like,
- 40:11girls are like really intricately dressed up.
- 40:14Like I was kind of shocked if they had made all of this
- 40:17themselves. But.
- 40:19Getting it from the playmates, that makes sense.
- 40:21Yeah, almost looks like Playmates, but then maybe like,
- 40:24you know, lots of like, I don't know, maybe like some playing
- 40:27cards. Yeah, cleverly attached,
- 40:30perhaps. I'm not sure, like some custom
- 40:33head pieces. I'm not sure.
- 40:35I don't want to speak for them. But yeah, One eyed Jacks was
- 40:39like such an interesting world, though.
- 40:43I'm sure some of it's custom of course, but not sure how much of
- 40:47it. Yeah, I'm sure some of it is.
- 40:51Maybe for our like principal cast.
- 40:53Yeah, I probably for Audrey, I would assume that was, you know,
- 40:59custom made, but like the amount of background characters in one
- 41:05eye jacks, like they are dressed to the nines.
- 41:10So I was like and it cuz it's season one.
- 41:12I'm like they probably didn't have that great of a budget.
- 41:17So interesting. It's such AI loved it because it
- 41:21was so different from everything else we were seeing in Twin
- 41:25Peaks. Yeah, it was spooky.
- 41:28It definitely like, put the whole thing in perspective and
- 41:32you're like, oof, whatever trouble Laura Palmer got into,
- 41:35you're like, there's something a lot, a lot deeper and scarier,
- 41:39scarier here. And it's really just the
- 41:41beginning, but there were some other fun moments that were
- 41:46happening here in Twin Peaks that I was excited about.
- 41:50And one of them was the Twin Peaks Fashion Show that was like
- 41:53also a charity for some sort of like, Weasel or something, I
- 41:58don't remember. They were trying, yeah, they
- 42:01were trying to save an endangered weasel and stop like
- 42:04that land development. But I love that this is strictly
- 42:10a fashion show for Plaid and checkered clothing pieces.
- 42:16You're. Right.
- 42:18Incredible incredible Andy doing his best to like shrut his
- 42:25stuff. It's like the best, like
- 42:28lumberjack, almost like inspired fashion show, just lots of as
- 42:33much Plaid as possible with like boots, scarves, hats, high
- 42:40collars. It's, I mean, it's quite
- 42:43perfect. As soon as I saw this episode, I
- 42:45was like, Oh yes, I got a bookmark.
- 42:47This, this is exactly what we're looking for.
- 42:50Even though this isn't exactly what the actual aesthetic of the
- 42:54show Twin Peaks is, it still is like probably what the general
- 42:59public thinks Twin Peaks is, though.
- 43:02It's it's funny, It's almost like making fun of itself.
- 43:04I think it is making. I think it's making fun of like,
- 43:08oh, the high fashion of, of, of the North Pacific Northwest is
- 43:13obviously all Plaid. Totally.
- 43:17It's like, this is what Sarah Markowitz's team was like.
- 43:19This is what people are going to think Twin Peaks is on paper,
- 43:22you know? Yeah, Yeah.
- 43:25Even though it was actually so much more sophisticated than
- 43:28that. Absolutely, although there was 1
- 43:32spectacle that it was maybe a little more fun and ridiculous.
- 43:39Miss Twin Peaks pageant. Oh my gosh.
- 43:42They kept talking about the Twin Peaks pageant for episodes and I
- 43:46was like, if they don't actually show this pageant, I'm going to
- 43:48be pissed. Oh I would have been so mad.
- 43:51But then them showing up and like the Plaid dresses with like
- 43:55the clear, like overcoats and bow ties for that musical.
- 44:03What? It was so fun you didn't like
- 44:10it. Oh, I loved it.
- 44:12Oh my gosh, I loved it. But that's like not what I was
- 44:16expecting from like. It was a little bit small.
- 44:20Town It was a. Little odd, but yeah, it was
- 44:22kind of like AI was like who who in this town designed like all
- 44:26of their looks. It had to been.
- 44:28It had to been someone. It was potential baby daddy #2
- 44:35for for Lucy. That that.
- 44:40That weird guy. That weird British guy.
- 44:44That weird British guy, right? Of course, of course.
- 44:48Yeah. Everyone looked so good though.
- 44:52So good it. Was crazy.
- 44:54I was like, Oh my gosh, everyone in this cast is so attractive.
- 44:57It's kind of ridiculous. And like, that was like, such a
- 45:01good showing of 80s evening wear, like Donna's, like, big
- 45:10red bow across her chest, the woman who won Miss Twin Peaks,
- 45:15the shoulder pads on that thing, like, incredible.
- 45:21So good. The pageant was so much fun.
- 45:24Of course they got ruined by like, you know, the the.
- 45:26Evil spirits evil. Spirits and Bob and all of his
- 45:31nonsense. Freaking Bob.
- 45:34Bob ruins everything but still such a great pageant.
- 45:39I love pageants. They had the sparkling hats of
- 45:42course the bow ties. They had like the little Plaid
- 45:46like pieces on their arms too. It was so much fun.
- 45:50And the Dean was there for eye patch too like everyone was
- 45:54there. It was perfect.
- 45:56Such a great pageant. There it was.
- 45:58It was such a perfect way to end our time in Twin Peaks before
- 46:02going to the end of the series in the Black Lodge, one of the
- 46:07scariest places ever presented to us on television.
- 46:12It was spooky. So at first in like the first
- 46:15two, like in the pilot, you know, I was like, I like this
- 46:19place, like the Red Room to Black Lodge.
- 46:21I was like, I like it here. Like you see the man from
- 46:25another place, like dancing. I was like, I like it here.
- 46:28I want to spend more time. By the end of the series, I was
- 46:31like, I actually never want to go there again.
- 46:33Who's? Not a good place you.
- 46:36Know, and I, I think I texted you because at this point I was
- 46:40actually ahead of you. Yeah.
- 46:42And I what had happened was I was watching the pageant episode
- 46:48and I fell asleep because I was, I was like, I'm going to finish
- 46:52this season tonight. Yeah.
- 46:55And I fell asleep during the pageant episode, and I woke up
- 46:59during the last episode of season 2 when Cooper is in the
- 47:05Black Lodge. And I woke up to Laura Palmer
- 47:09fucking screaming when she had like those possessed eyes.
- 47:14And you know me, my volume is always cranked up.
- 47:20And her scream woke me up like I was getting ready to get
- 47:24murdered. And I was like in a hot sweat
- 47:41and I was like, Oh my gosh. So I quickly, I like pause it
- 47:45and start over. And I was like, oh, great.
- 47:47Like I just knew. I was like, cool.
- 47:49I have like a Black Lodge episode coming up.
- 47:52Oh yeah. And sure enough, we did.
- 47:55But yeah, let's talk about the Black Lodge, that that's a
- 47:59incredible place. It is interesting aesthetic.
- 48:03I love everything about it. Yeah, the red, the black and
- 48:08white, the man from another place being dressed entirely in
- 48:12red, I guess to match the drapes.
- 48:16I don't know. And then Laura just there and
- 48:20like her lovely dress, looking like, you know, the homecoming
- 48:25queen that she was. Yeah.
- 48:29The giant just showing up there just being like, you want some
- 48:34coffee like. What?
- 48:36Yeah, I honestly, I don't know. Like, I really don't know.
- 48:42I haven't finished returns so I haven't been able to like
- 48:46patrolled the Reddit boards yet, so I don't have much more to say
- 48:49about the black Elodge yet until I finish.
- 48:51So I feel disarmed with information yet.
- 48:54I don't know, but I just know I love everything about it.
- 48:58I love the colours and the use of pattern.
- 49:03It's just one of the most beautiful aesthetics I've ever
- 49:06seen. I love everything about it.
- 49:08As terrifying of places as it is, I just love every scene that
- 49:13takes place in it. I just love seeing it.
- 49:16It's just so cool to look. And I love like all the behind
- 49:19the scenes, like, you know, film.
- 49:22I get to see it, like David Lynch directing, you know, any
- 49:26cast in there or like there's some great footage of him and
- 49:31Cheryl Lee in on the set, like directing her in those sets.
- 49:36It's just so fun. Like, watch him and her, like,
- 49:38have those moments on that set. It's really just so cool to
- 49:41watch. It's just such a beautiful set.
- 49:43So yeah, that kind of brings us to the end of Twin Peaks, the
- 49:50original series, but we're not done yet.
- 49:53We're not done yet. Right after Twin Peaks ends,
- 49:58David Lynch takes us back in time to just just before the
- 50:03events of Twin Peaks in Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me.
- 50:08And I must say, for the first like half hour of this film,
- 50:11very confused. I was like, nobody here is in
- 50:17Twin Peaks. We're not into what is
- 50:19happening. Yeah, at first we got Gordon
- 50:22Cole played by David Lynch with. I was like, if we got David
- 50:26Lynch playing Gordon Cole, we're going to be fine because I think
- 50:28he's honestly such a hilarious character.
- 50:32I could. If I had just a three hour movie
- 50:35with him just yelling at people, I would be totally fine.
- 50:40Agent Dale. Cooper.
- 50:43Gordon, I hope you haven't been waiting too long.
- 50:45I. Didn't just get here.
- 50:46I've been waiting the whole afternoon to see you.
- 50:48Gordon what can I do for? You, no matter whatsoever, no
- 50:51apology necessary, Gave me a chance to meet the local law
- 50:54enforcement team. A great bunch, Cooper.
- 51:00You remind me today of a small Mexican Chihuahua.
- 51:07Can I speak to you a moment in Private Coup?
- 51:09Of course Gordon. He was hilarious.
- 51:11Then we had that character with the red wig and the red dress
- 51:15and the blue rose, and I was like, OK, like we we have
- 51:19something here. But then when David Bowie walked
- 51:22in, I was like, what the fuck is this movie?
- 51:25Yeah. I was so shocked.
- 51:29First, like the lady in the wig, the dress, the flat.
- 51:33I was so confused. I was, and everyone's acting
- 51:37like it was totally normal. And then that they explained
- 51:40that she's basically like, like you have to decipher all of her
- 51:44things to figure out like your next assignment, 'cause it's
- 51:47that like big top secret that like they can't just write it
- 51:51down and give it to you. I was like, OK, this is Twin
- 51:55Peaks crazy. OK, I get it.
- 51:57I get it. But David, I was like laying on
- 52:01my couch and David Bowie walked through the door and I, like,
- 52:05sat up so quickly. I wasn't dizzy.
- 52:10I was like, the fuck is David Bowie doing here?
- 52:14And then he just disappears. And.
- 52:17Like he's wearing this incredible like like Pearl Gray
- 52:22suit with like a not quite like Hawaiian print shirt under it.
- 52:28And like clearly, like I feel like he was undercover wherever
- 52:33he went missing 'cause he it, it's still like FBI tailored,
- 52:39very like clean cut, but it's not like the standard like dark
- 52:45suit and tie look. But also like, could David Lynch
- 52:50put David Bowie in that? I don't think so.
- 52:53I think he had to give him a little bit more.
- 52:56Yeah, I, I don't understand what his character was up to.
- 53:01I that's again, something I'm going to have to look up when
- 53:04I'm finally done with all of my Twin Peaks watching.
- 53:07But I was caught off guard. Of course.
- 53:10David Bowie looks incredible. He always does.
- 53:12It's he's incapable of not looking good.
- 53:16But he he does feel like he is dressed like one of the agents
- 53:21perhaps. So I think there is some sort of
- 53:23relation, but then again, like we were talking about earlier
- 53:26where he does feel like he's also related to some sort of
- 53:31like conspiracy too at the same time where I was like, I don't
- 53:34know, feels kind of like alien or entity related.
- 53:39I don't know, something feels off he.
- 53:42Is an FBI agent. They talk about that in Firewalk
- 53:45with me. Right.
- 53:47Like, yeah, I'm just saying something feels off of this guy
- 53:51too. At the same time, I don't know,
- 53:55the whole 1st 30 minutes of this movie, I was like looking for
- 53:59the Tylenol. Yeah, that's yeah.
- 54:02I was actually relieved to see Laura Palmer and actually Bob
- 54:07and Leland Palmer. Honestly, I was like, oh God,
- 54:10OK, I know these people. My gosh, Bob is so terrifying
- 54:15and like, so. Let's talk about Bob.
- 54:18Let's talk about Bob. Bob just looks like someone you
- 54:21would see in Portland like. All the listeners in Portland
- 54:27just have after like, wait a minute.
- 54:29No, he's got like his G like he it's just like looking at him
- 54:34objectively, he's just like got his like long cool hair, his
- 54:39like denim jacket. I think his he has like a Plaid
- 54:43shirt on and just like very utilitarian pants, like just
- 54:47like normal guy. But the way Bob acts horrifying.
- 54:57Like, I didn't, I didn't think I would ever see a denim coat and
- 55:01be like, but that's what Bob does to a denim jacket.
- 55:07Is make you slightly. Terrified.
- 55:11I agree with you, remember, and like I think it was, it might
- 55:13have been season 1 of Twin Peaks.
- 55:15The moment when Bob like have like like jumps over the couch
- 55:20and he's like, I honestly, I feel like I was gonna jump over
- 55:23my couch. Oh my gosh.
- 55:25I was. So I was terrified.
- 55:27Just when like he's like creeping behind something and
- 55:31you only see him for like half a second.
- 55:32I was. Like I just got chills just
- 55:36talking about it. Actually, I was afraid.
- 55:38Bob was gonna come through my window and like, smash me away.
- 55:43He's so terrifying, Bob. He played by Frank Silva
- 55:48terrifying. It's one of the scariest
- 55:50villains we've probably ever covered on this podcast.
- 55:54And he just looks like a regular.
- 55:57He honestly, he captures almost like a regular, the way I'd put
- 56:03it honestly like a regular, like 80s, kind of like serial killer,
- 56:07like almost like a Night Stalker type villain.
- 56:11Honestly, like a like a like a Richard Ramirez type where it's
- 56:15just like like you would pass by him on the street, but kind of
- 56:19gives you like the lawn care denim type of freaky.
- 56:23Yeah, just like a something's just a little off.
- 56:25And I, I was like, Oh my gosh, this guy is such a good actor.
- 56:29And I so I went to like, go see what else he done.
- 56:34And unfortunately, Frank Silva passed away in 1995.
- 56:40Bob was the only character he had ever played.
- 56:44He. He was actually in set design
- 56:50and a prop master for David Lynch on other projects.
- 56:55And then I don't know how he became Bob, but but he was in
- 57:04the TV show, the film, and then I think they've used footage of
- 57:08him since. But that's something that David
- 57:10Lynch likes to do though, because like one of the agents
- 57:13he uses in the return, one of the women agents that he takes
- 57:17to like the prison when he goes and visits one of the like
- 57:20doppelgangers of Dale Cooper. She's also like one of I believe
- 57:26she works on like the music of Twin Peaks or like works on
- 57:31music with David Lynch too. Like he just like uses people in
- 57:36his orbit to like be in his project.
- 57:40So that makes sense that that's who Frank Silva was who David
- 57:43Lynch too. He was like, Hey, you want to be
- 57:45this this Bob character. So that's cool.
- 57:50Well, recipes to Frank Silva. He did a great job even though
- 57:55he terrifies me. Terrifies.
- 57:58Terrifies all of us. And took Bob took over.
- 58:02Poor Leland Palmer. Just the creepiest.
- 58:09You really didn't like Leland Palmer?
- 58:12No, fuck Leland Palmer. Yeah, I knew.
- 58:17I knew it was Leland Palmer from the moment I started watching
- 58:20the show. That I actually felt proud of
- 58:21myself, that I called it 'cause I was like, I knew The second
- 58:25they like told him that his daughter died and he had that
- 58:28overreaction, I was like, I know.
- 58:30It's. Oh, I would not call that an
- 58:33overreaction if you're just if you were told your only child
- 58:38has been brutally murdered. But I think.
- 58:41That's a pretty reasonable reaction.
- 58:43Right. But I meant like the overacting
- 58:46of Leland Palmer in the sense of like, he like really gave, like
- 58:51he the way he was acting. That was like, OK, he's like,
- 58:54really, he's really like laying it all out in this lobby.
- 58:59But then, like, he started having like, these like, scenes
- 59:01where he was like, you know, dancing by himself and like, he
- 59:06was like, really spiraling. And I just felt like he was
- 59:08really calling a lot of attention to himself.
- 59:11I just never was buying it from the beginning, is what I'm
- 59:13saying. And I just felt like he was the
- 59:16father. And I just, I don't know, I was
- 59:18just always on to his ass from the beginning.
- 59:21And I just wasn't surprised. So you were possessed by a
- 59:26possibly H ancient demonic spirit, I think.
- 59:29I think you'd act a little odd as well.
- 59:31Spencer I. Don't know, I just don't have.
- 59:35I guess I just don't feel bad for Leland Palmer.
- 59:38I'm sorry I watch Fire walk with me.
- 59:40I just don't have a lot of sympathy for this creepy ass
- 59:43dude. That's fair.
- 59:45You know who I have sympathy for, though, Spencer?
- 59:50Poor Laura Palmer. Seriously.
- 59:53What an icon, what a legend. Didn't deserve anything that
- 59:59happened to her and she was slowly but surely driven crazy
- 1:00:03by Bob. Yeah, Sheryl Lee gave a
- 1:00:09impeccable performance and Fire walk with me.
- 1:00:12Yeah, so good. I loved it.
- 1:00:16I love her costumes. I love that she like slowly
- 1:00:19gives like this, like you know, like we see like this.
- 1:00:22You see like this innocence of her, but you like during the day
- 1:00:26because see it like fade away from her as she has to like be
- 1:00:30this. Oh, as soon as the sunsets.
- 1:00:33It's gone. Yeah, you see this person, she
- 1:00:35doesn't want to be, but she has to be because she's like this
- 1:00:38hardened person where she has to like, fend for herself all the
- 1:00:43time. 'Cause she's trying to escape
- 1:00:46her creepy family dynamic thanks to Bob like.
- 1:00:51She's she finds out in real time that her the predator that she's
- 1:00:57running away from is her father and and it's it's just like this
- 1:01:02horrible realization. Then it's reflected in her
- 1:01:04costumes all the time. Or and at one point, lack of
- 1:01:08costumes. But yeah, Sheryl Lee as Laura
- 1:01:13Palmer is incredible. You get to see like this Angel
- 1:01:17costume toward the end, too. Oh.
- 1:01:19That Angel costume was so cool. So cool, beautiful.
- 1:01:24Yeah, I I, I loved Fire Walk with me.
- 1:01:28Actually, I was surprised by how much I loved that movie.
- 1:01:30I gave it a 5 out of five on. Letterbox I I was actually, I
- 1:01:36didn't think it was going to fit so seamlessly into the series
- 1:01:39'cause it was like, oh, it's a prequel and I was like, OK,
- 1:01:44what? Like, I didn't think they were
- 1:01:45going to explain slash, make the mystery broader, but yeah, it
- 1:01:53was perfect. And that Angel costume was the
- 1:01:57perfect costume to end that movie on 'cause it really sets
- 1:02:00up kind of the the image of Laura we get right off the bat
- 1:02:09in Twin Peaks, which is, you know, the Angel of the town, the
- 1:02:14homecoming queen, oh so sweet and innocent.
- 1:02:17Like how you view the town at first, but like, like her, you
- 1:02:22slowly pull back the layers and it's that's just not, it's not
- 1:02:26what's happening. Yeah, totally.
- 1:02:28Like she, you know, a lot of the things that happened to her were
- 1:02:32like, so not her fault and you just feel so awful for her, but
- 1:02:36they're also like, there was a lot of things that was happening
- 1:02:40to her that you're like, oh, Laura, like what's going on
- 1:02:43here? Like, you know, like just she
- 1:02:45was like wrapped up in so many awful things that you just want
- 1:02:48to like, you want to scream. It's just so bad.
- 1:02:52But. Yeah, so.
- 1:02:54Bad. So I want to get into it.
- 1:02:56Honestly, it's just rough. But Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with
- 1:02:58Me, such a great film. If you all haven't seen it,
- 1:03:00please, please go check it out. It's an incredible film.
- 1:03:03It's actually on the crate in the Criterion Collection too, so
- 1:03:07if you get a hold of it, I believe there's a lot of great
- 1:03:10footage with Cheryl Lee where she talks about her character in
- 1:03:14detail too. So I want to get it.
- 1:03:16I don't have it yet, but I'm trying to get it.
- 1:03:18So I'm going to check it out soon.
- 1:03:21Yeah. And that brings us to the end of
- 1:03:25Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me. So.
- 1:03:28But we're not done yet. We still got more.
- 1:03:30We have more Twin Peaks. But we're actually going to take
- 1:03:33a quick break. And when we come back, I'm going
- 1:03:35to be joined by a dear friend, podcast costume designer Jen
- 1:03:40Starzik. We're going to talk about her
- 1:03:41experience on Twin Peaks, The Return.
- 1:03:45She's going to tell us all about her, her love for David Lynch
- 1:03:51when she actually got to go to a Twin Peaks convention and got to
- 1:03:54actually meet Hawk and even like got to go party with Hawk for a
- 1:03:59little bit. And Doctor Jacoby, she also got
- 1:04:04to meet David Lynch and what he was like on set.
- 1:04:07And you know how she does some impersonations and his smoking
- 1:04:12habits and when she got to go to his house and got to fit Laura
- 1:04:16Dern for her character on the return and working of costume
- 1:04:19designer Nancy Steiner. It's a short little
- 1:04:21conversation, but it's just like a great fun insight into just a
- 1:04:25day in the life of working with David Lynch and on the return of
- 1:04:30Twin Peaks. And after that, we'll do a quick
- 1:04:33little end here and we'll be all done for this episode and the
- 1:04:38series. So let's take a quick break.
- 1:04:46I am here with one of my dearest, dearest friends,
- 1:04:48someone who I've just been dying to just have back on a podcast.
- 1:04:51It's been a minute now costume designer Jen Starzik, She has
- 1:04:55done some of my favorite films and shows.
- 1:04:58Mindhunter, one of my favorite shows, which I needed to come
- 1:05:01back. I keep saying it, but maybe one
- 1:05:03day. Keep crossing on my fingers and
- 1:05:05toes. Bill and Ted face the music
- 1:05:07ironcloth. Also, she was a key costumer on
- 1:05:11Twin Peaks Return. Please welcome back to the
- 1:05:13podcast Jen Starzik. Jen, thank you so much for being
- 1:05:17here. Oh.
- 1:05:17My gosh, thank you so much for having me.
- 1:05:19Although first of all, I'm such a fan of you all the time.
- 1:05:22I would do anything just to sit next to you in chat, so we have
- 1:05:24to do it this way. This is great, but I've also
- 1:05:27completely inserted myself into this episode because I This is
- 1:05:30like my 1 geeky fandom thing and my antenna is always up when
- 1:05:36someone's talking about David Lynch.
- 1:05:37Twin Peaks, All things David Lynch, I've.
- 1:05:39Been like silently cackling at your your background.
- 1:05:43It's it's so incredible. Is it always like this or no?
- 1:05:46No. No, no, no, no, no.
- 1:05:47I obviously pulled this out this morning, but I, I'm kind of a
- 1:05:50memorabilia person. So I have like a suitcase full
- 1:05:53of like folk, like actual photographs, remember those and
- 1:05:56like things from my past. And so it was, it's easy to pull
- 1:06:00out. And then like, these were these
- 1:06:01were wrapped gifts from Kyle McLaughlin from his winery.
- 1:06:05And then he made a private table.
- 1:06:07The owls are not what they seem. And he made a Black Lodge
- 1:06:10coffee. And I had him, like, sign some
- 1:06:12really, like, really geeky things.
- 1:06:14So yeah, this, this is like my one geek thing for sure.
- 1:06:17This is so cool. I need that fire walk with me
- 1:06:19poster. That's a good one.
- 1:06:20You just inspired some living room decor honestly.
- 1:06:23I had it up in my college dorm plus the price tag on the back
- 1:06:29from like Lord knows where I got it but it was $7.00.
- 1:06:31I just went to go tape it up, like top stick it, and I was
- 1:06:33like, Oh my God, the price tag's still on it, Yeah.
- 1:06:36Your street cred is like through the roof right now.
- 1:06:38Yes, yeah. OK, well, I, I've been like
- 1:06:43really looking forward to this conversation for like weeks now
- 1:06:46and we've we've been talking about this for like a month now,
- 1:06:49but I've just been really taking my sweet, sweet time watching
- 1:06:53Twin Peaks. As you know, it is an incredible
- 1:06:56series, but we got to like take it back a little bit because
- 1:07:00we've been watching through some David Lynch films.
- 1:07:02As you know, we started with Dune, the 1984 version, which
- 1:07:07is, as you know, so much fun. It's a lot.
- 1:07:11And of course, we watch just. Need to watch to see how they do
- 1:07:14those kind of movies then too. Right.
- 1:07:16Yeah, especially compare and contrast.
- 1:07:19We also watch Blue Velvet, so I've always known you to be a
- 1:07:22huge Lynch fan, which is why when we were messaging one day
- 1:07:25and suddenly clicked, I was like, this is my in.
- 1:07:28I gotta get Jen back on the podcast.
- 1:07:30Like it was just like a dumb moment.
- 1:07:32So where does this David Lynch fandom come from?
- 1:07:36It it obviously. Did it start with Twin Peaks or
- 1:07:38was it before Twin Peaks? It definitely started with Twin
- 1:07:43Peaks because I was in high school when Twin Peaks came out.
- 1:07:45I was like just getting into high school and Twin Peaks came
- 1:07:48out like my sister was is a little bit older than me.
- 1:07:50She was definitely watching Twin Peaks and it was in the pop
- 1:07:54cultures in the zeitgeist because it was such a sensation
- 1:07:57at the time. But I actually don't really.
- 1:08:00I watched some episodes, but maybe I was hanging out with
- 1:08:03friends on Friday nights. And of course, this was before
- 1:08:04the time you really like stuck a DV like a VHS tape and to record
- 1:08:09things. I mean, like, we're talking like
- 1:08:10in the night, you know, in the night, 90s, really 90s.
- 1:08:13So then Fire Walk With Me came out and I went to the theater
- 1:08:16with my close friend and like our minds were blown.
- 1:08:19And then that's kind of when I dealt into it.
- 1:08:21And it really was like one of my other closest friends, Ted
- 1:08:24Vatican, I went to go visit him at college a little bit later
- 1:08:28and he was like, we have to watch this series.
- 1:08:31And we sat down and watched it all.
- 1:08:32We didn't like leave the couch for like 3 days.
- 1:08:34Like we watched the whole entire series and became fans.
- 1:08:37And he was like, there's a fan festival coming up we're going.
- 1:08:39And that's like the whole thing started.
- 1:08:43And I went to a Twin Peaks fan festival in 1996.
- 1:08:46These are pictures from when I went.
- 1:08:47I'm like, we're here with Hawk and the Colonel.
- 1:08:49I've got like totally like have have moments from there too.
- 1:08:53Wait, are you I'm able to move the hawk photo closer to camera?
- 1:08:57Is it is it movable? I I got to see this.
- 1:09:00Yeah. So here's these are my friends.
- 1:09:04So these are my girlfriends who I went with.
- 1:09:06And there's Hawk and there's the Colonel.
- 1:09:09So there's another picture of him.
- 1:09:10And I probably have, I should have some other goodies in here.
- 1:09:15I have a picture like with Kim, Kimmy, with Lucy, Yeah.
- 1:09:19And we sat at, we ate at the table with Doctor Jacoby, with
- 1:09:23Russ Tamblyn. And I mean it was.
- 1:09:26And afterwards, you know what I mean?
- 1:09:27We were on Bainbridge Island. That's where you would go to the
- 1:09:30Twin Figs fan. It was like a three day event.
- 1:09:32And so and afterwards, like Hawk called our hotel room and was
- 1:09:36like, where are you guys partying?
- 1:09:37Like it was really funny. I'm gonna put my display back
- 1:09:42up, but yeah. Yeah, get the set the core back
- 1:09:45together. Yeah, my set to core back up a
- 1:09:47little. Bit yeah, so.
- 1:09:50But yeah, and had a blast going through, you know, going to
- 1:09:55Bainbridge and they did a little bit of filming there and going
- 1:09:57to then they you did like double our diner and then we actually
- 1:10:00could like concluded the three day fan festival in Seattle
- 1:10:03watching Dune. So that's how it ended.
- 1:10:05And at that time there's like some special guests and stuff
- 1:10:08like that. But you know what more of the
- 1:10:12you know the day players, but like really good actors involved
- 1:10:14because it was an ensemble cast. Right, and we just watched Fire
- 1:10:18walk with it was so as you know, this is my first time watching
- 1:10:20Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks Fire walk with me.
- 1:10:23I can't imagine watching Fire walk with me in a movie theater.
- 1:10:26That must have been a crazy experience.
- 1:10:28What a wild. I mean, this silence was
- 1:10:32palpitating. Like it was.
- 1:10:34Just I think actually too, my friend, I saw it twice.
- 1:10:37Like we were like, we got to go see that again.
- 1:10:39Like what that was, it was so mind blowing.
- 1:10:43And then that was it. That like opened me up to the
- 1:10:45world a bit. And if people ask me like my
- 1:10:46favorite David Lynch things, it's like I love Wild at Heart,
- 1:10:49I love Wild at Heart, I love Blue Velvet, I love straight
- 1:10:52Story and I love the first 9 episodes of Twin Peaks.
- 1:10:55Like those. Like that's my like I like,
- 1:10:58those are my jams. Yeah.
- 1:10:59Yeah. Oh, I haven't heard a straight
- 1:11:01story. I'm going to write that one
- 1:11:02down. Totally a different trajectory
- 1:11:05for him, based on a true story where somebody, somebody dies.
- 1:11:09Jack Nance is the main character and he doesn't drive, so he has
- 1:11:13to drive his lawn mower, like across multiple states to get to
- 1:11:16the person's house. It's great.
- 1:11:18It's a beautiful story. OK, I'm gonna put that one down.
- 1:11:21So good, yeah. So years later, you actually
- 1:11:24became a key costumer on Twin Peaks Return with Nancy Steiner
- 1:11:28as the costume designer. So I'd love to hear about your
- 1:11:30experience working on a production and stepping into the
- 1:11:33world of Twin Peaks first hand. This must have been a mind
- 1:11:38blowing experience. Now that you have, when you've
- 1:11:40had these conventions under your belt at this point.
- 1:11:43I mean, you've got to see the movies you've had binge to show.
- 1:11:47So how how did this even happen? I mean, the was the word on the
- 1:11:51street. Like you have to get Jen on this
- 1:11:52project. She knows everything about Twin
- 1:11:54Peaks. How?
- 1:11:55I mean, you must have been peeking your head in the doors
- 1:11:58somehow. OK, well there's two parts to
- 1:12:02this because I also worked on the additional photography of
- 1:12:04Mulholland Drive, so I will go back to that.
- 1:12:08But yeah, or I'll start with that because that was obviously
- 1:12:11before that. So he had filmed Mulholland
- 1:12:13Drive as a pilot and then when he presented the pilot, the
- 1:12:16studio was like, no, no way. So then he got additional
- 1:12:20funding and then did additional photography to turn it into a
- 1:12:23movie. So at that time I had just kind
- 1:12:27of was freshly new into the union and I had been working
- 1:12:31really long term on a Rob Zombie House of 1000 corpses, which
- 1:12:35kept filming. Like it started as like a little
- 1:12:37mini gig and then they just kept rewriting, keep re filming kept.
- 1:12:40So it was like almost like a year long gig by the end of it.
- 1:12:43So we all became a really close family and like Rob was a blast
- 1:12:46and invite us over and we would be like hanging out the pool
- 1:12:49with like Johnny Ramon. It was like completely insane.
- 1:12:51Like so I, my close friend man, who still is an amazing set
- 1:12:56costumer sesh of entry, knew I was a Twin Peaks fanatic and she
- 1:13:00had got a call to work on the additional reshoots because
- 1:13:02she'd worked with the designer Amy Stofsky designed Mulholland
- 1:13:07Drive, but Dorinda Wood did the reshoots.
- 1:13:09And so she was like, I have to, I have to give this to you if
- 1:13:12you want to do it. Like there's no way.
- 1:13:13But I had to take off work with Rob Zombie on the House that was
- 1:13:17corpses, which he had heard of because it was a really close
- 1:13:19knit family. And so he came up to me and he
- 1:13:21was like, I heard, you're not going to be here next week.
- 1:13:24And I literally like still this day, I still cringe.
- 1:13:26But my friend and I like pissing our pants laughing about it
- 1:13:28because I like turned to Rob Zombie.
- 1:13:30And I was like, well, I got a call to work with David Lynch
- 1:13:33and I was like Rob Zombie, David Lynch and I went like that.
- 1:13:36And he was like, yeah, I would do the same thing.
- 1:13:42Like he totally understood. Like it was like, got it.
- 1:13:44Yeah. So.
- 1:13:45And I went to go work on that. And that was like, I can't
- 1:13:48believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm here a
- 1:13:49moment. And I just have like 1 funny
- 1:13:52story to tell about David on that because he was, it was shot
- 1:13:56at some like makeshift stage out in the valley.
- 1:13:59And I mean really kind of like a low budget stage.
- 1:14:02And they really didn't even have craft service.
- 1:14:04They had coffee, but like no one could drink it because it was
- 1:14:06David's coffee. And I was like, well, I'm going
- 1:14:07to go drink David's coffee like you're.
- 1:14:09Insane like. Someone just say David's coffee.
- 1:14:11I'm drinking David's coffee. So but he also, of course, was a
- 1:14:16lifelong or not really, but a good chain smoker.
- 1:14:18He started, I think he started later in his life and then was
- 1:14:20obviously a chronic smoker. So he was smoking in the stage
- 1:14:23and the fire Marshall came and was like you, you know, you have
- 1:14:26to like you can't smoke obviously in the stage.
- 1:14:28And he was like, what, what if I get like a kiddie pool and I put
- 1:14:31my chair in the kiddie pool and I just to the pool and they were
- 1:14:34like, no, that's not going to work either.
- 1:14:36So he moved his whole like video village right outside the
- 1:14:40elephant door and, you know, infamous for using a megaphone,
- 1:14:44even if he's talking next to you.
- 1:14:46And he was like, that's where he ended up calling all his action.
- 1:14:48And I was just like, I love this man.
- 1:14:50Let's just save him at deer cost going to Twin Peaks return.
- 1:14:54So I obviously had heard Twin Peaks return was coming and like
- 1:14:56if anybody like unless you were deaf and knew I wanted to work
- 1:15:00on it, like I went to Western costume.
- 1:15:02I took Bobby Garland because Bobby Garland was like, you
- 1:15:05know, the eyes and ears and like 6° to everybody.
- 1:15:07And I was like, whoever gets just one peaks, I have to get
- 1:15:09it. And I thought maybe he was going
- 1:15:11to maybe Amy Stopski and him would return as a collab.
- 1:15:15And so at that time, I'm Sarah Jane Slotnick was working with
- 1:15:18Amy a lot. And she kindly was like, I would
- 1:15:21step aside and you can have this dream come true moment.
- 1:15:23Like people were like opening the water, like parting the
- 1:15:26waters. For me were out there, they're
- 1:15:28like, don't worry, I won't get in the way.
- 1:15:30I'll get like, literally like if I was just walking down the
- 1:15:33streets. I was like, do you know anything
- 1:15:34about do you know? So I was working on Ghostbusters
- 1:15:39with Jeffrey, like the female version of Ghostbusters, and we
- 1:15:41were in Boston and I got a phone call from Nancy Steiner, who I
- 1:15:46had definitely worked with on and off for like almost 10
- 1:15:49years. I love Nancy.
- 1:15:50So. And we had kind of, she had a
- 1:15:52film where she couldn't take me and I end up working on other
- 1:15:54films. So we kind of had to work
- 1:15:55together in a little bit. So she'd call me and she was
- 1:15:58like, it turns out it sounds like I have a project you're
- 1:16:01going to work with me on. And I was like, you got Twin
- 1:16:03Peaks? Like I was like, no, right away.
- 1:16:04I was like, yeah. And she actually was not
- 1:16:08somebody like super familiar with, I think Twin Peaks.
- 1:16:11I mean, she probably was familiar with the David Lynch
- 1:16:12projects, other movies and stuff.
- 1:16:14But she was like, and she said something to that matter.
- 1:16:17And I was like, I will speak Twin Peaks for you.
- 1:16:19Like I will, I will do all of the, you know, whatever you
- 1:16:22need. So so I went to go join the the
- 1:16:26the series after after Ghostbuster ended.
- 1:16:30So they did already shoot quite a bit of really special moments.
- 1:16:33But when I came, but I did like the first day I worked on it,
- 1:16:37they had to recreate the Double R Diner.
- 1:16:39So that was like my first day on set for the twin.
- 1:16:41Peaks. Return yeah and I had to work as
- 1:16:43a key because they are a little tight on the budget and like I
- 1:16:47couldn't afford to work as the ACD.
- 1:16:48Like I was like I gotta couldn't even like pay my rent with that
- 1:16:51so I was like at least I could get some hourly things so I was
- 1:16:54like fine. I've been told I've credited
- 1:16:56twice in the credits as Jennifer Sarzik and which also delights
- 1:16:59me that my name twice that's. A great Twin Peaks thing,
- 1:17:04actually. Total gobble banger.
- 1:17:06Yeah, exactly so. Ducky and like Cooper here and
- 1:17:11all sorts of things, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
- 1:17:17And some special moments on that were, for whatever reason, Nancy
- 1:17:21could not fit Laura Dern's character.
- 1:17:24Who's Diane, who's obviously the character you never meet in the
- 1:17:27first in the original series, I'd say.
- 1:17:30So she was like, we had to do it over the weekend.
- 1:17:32Something was, she was like, she called me up and she was like,
- 1:17:35I'm so sorry I have to ask you to do this, but you're going to
- 1:17:37have to go fit Laura Dern at David Lynch's house.
- 1:17:39And like I was driving and I was like, like.
- 1:17:42Freaking sorry I'm so devastated to tell you.
- 1:17:48You know Laura Dern for Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet?
- 1:17:52You know, she's a professional and she wanted, you know, she
- 1:17:55was sorry we had to be like all on me, you know, or whatever.
- 1:17:57But I was like, I could retire after this, basically.
- 1:18:01Like this would be my like, So to have to go to David Lynch's
- 1:18:04house and to that gorgeous house, which we've seen up for
- 1:18:07sale since then. Like you can imagine.
- 1:18:09And I mean, PS already knew where it was because in height
- 1:18:12in college. College.
- 1:18:15Yeah. Like this guy walked by me in
- 1:18:17college and he had some really obscure Twin Peaks High School,
- 1:18:20like teach like a really deep, deep dive into fandom.
- 1:18:23And I was like, you, me, we're going to date.
- 1:18:25Like, and we date. I was like, we already have
- 1:18:27everything in common. Like our first date was watching
- 1:18:29Elephant Man like so it was just like we like like that that like
- 1:18:33kept us afloat for many years. And then obviously that didn't
- 1:18:36fizzle that but but that was like, so I already knew because
- 1:18:39we'd already done like he was like, here's where you live.
- 1:18:41So I get there and I was like, Oh my God, I forgot.
- 1:18:43I like driven past here in like full circle moment.
- 1:18:45Now I'm here for a fitting and it was just insanely incredible.
- 1:18:50And he called her tidbit and I just thought that was like so
- 1:18:53cute. And obviously I'm such a fan of
- 1:18:54hers. Like Wild Attack, just all
- 1:18:56things Laura Dern and the David Lynch world.
- 1:18:58Like the he picks like Kyle and her.
- 1:19:01Like it just sets this tone and this absurdity that works so
- 1:19:05amazingly well. And it was just a slow process.
- 1:19:09They would talk, they would have a coffee, he would go outside,
- 1:19:12he'd go to a different area of his.
- 1:19:13He had a very huge home, have a cigarette, come back down there,
- 1:19:17do some fittings. We'd come find him like it.
- 1:19:19So we did it for like 2 full days and I was like, yeah, I'm
- 1:19:23done. I can retire.
- 1:19:23Like I really was like, I can retire.
- 1:19:25And also just working with David Lynch in my career at that time,
- 1:19:31like reinvigorated me. Like I was like, This is why I
- 1:19:34got into This is why I got into what I was doing.
- 1:19:37And I'm sure people have those moments if they're Marvel fans
- 1:19:40or, you know, director fans for sure.
- 1:19:42But I'm like, this was like, This is why I'm here.
- 1:19:45Like I like, I couldn't imagine my 20 year old me like doing
- 1:19:48what I was doing. So it was super cool.
- 1:19:50And he loves Los Angeles light and he loves film in LA and
- 1:19:54you've you've felt that. And every day was like a gift
- 1:19:57and joy to be at work like it was.
- 1:19:59He would go and meditate at lunch because he's known for his
- 1:20:02TM and he would drop in at lunch and he came out one day and was
- 1:20:05like, I want Dougie in a lime green jacket.
- 1:20:08And of course it worked the next day and.
- 1:20:10Dougie's character in for Big Return was bigger.
- 1:20:12So it was it was going to be a little bit of obviously an
- 1:20:15effort. And of course, and I understand
- 1:20:16Nancy was like, Oh my gosh, like how?
- 1:20:18And I was like, I've got it, like, we're going to do this,
- 1:20:20like we're going to pull this off.
- 1:20:21Like it was just like anything I could do.
- 1:20:24And another special moment was he, you know, he's known for his
- 1:20:28uniform. He always wore khaki pants, kind
- 1:20:30of like baggy khaki pants and a white button shirt shirt and a
- 1:20:33blazer. And he had sent us his khaki
- 1:20:35pants to repair some holes. And I was like, I was like, I
- 1:20:39don't know if this is like legal for me to have these.
- 1:20:42Like I was like this. Is like.
- 1:20:44This is amazing too. Like so just all these things
- 1:20:47are like I said, this is like my one geeky thing.
- 1:20:50And then there's, and I know there's fans out there, they're
- 1:20:52even like more into it than I am, but this is my one geeky
- 1:20:55thing that I've dived into the most.
- 1:20:57And like, it just excites me and delights me to be a part of it.
- 1:21:00Oh, that's so incredible. I just, I'm so happy that you
- 1:21:03got to have that experience and I don't know, just really warms
- 1:21:06my heart. And it's just such a incredible
- 1:21:08moment to like see those interactions between him and
- 1:21:12Laura and yourself and Kyle at those fittings.
- 1:21:14I mean, that's something to really look back on throughout
- 1:21:16your career and what AI mean. It's just incredible.
- 1:21:20I mean, no one else gets to have that too.
- 1:21:23It's it's. It goes without words really.
- 1:21:27It's so special and and you know, and he did have the
- 1:21:29megaphone and he would turn to his long term script supervisor
- 1:21:32and be like, print that, like right into here.
- 1:21:35Which is so much like his character too.
- 1:21:37In three weeks too. So, buddy.
- 1:21:39And to see him get dressed as Gordon Cole, just all these like
- 1:21:42cool things and, you know, see the, the, the Red Room come to
- 1:21:47be recreated with. My gosh.
- 1:21:48Like exactly with the the the floor and just all these things
- 1:21:52you were like, this is so cool. It was it was a crowning moment
- 1:21:55for sure. And I absolutely, I really love
- 1:21:57being part of. It so we've been talking about
- 1:22:00these David Lynch films now for three episodes now.
- 1:22:03Just trying to, you know, also talk about the costumes and the
- 1:22:05style. What do you think now since you
- 1:22:08worked on, you know, one of these projects?
- 1:22:10Well, actually two of them now. How would you describe that
- 1:22:13David Lynch style in terms of the clothes and the fashion?
- 1:22:17I think that there's nostalgia and reference and reveries for I
- 1:22:25think he was a, you know, from far as I can tell, he was a
- 1:22:28lover of old movies and he sort of always kind of infused that
- 1:22:33into like Patty Norris was his long term collaborator and she
- 1:22:38was almost of that ilk. It's very far and few between.
- 1:22:41Mostly theater people do it where they also do production
- 1:22:44design and costume design. So she was able to really
- 1:22:47command the world. And then because she did that
- 1:22:49and it is theatrical, I feel like, like, I mean, Blue Velvet
- 1:22:52would be an exemplary like example of it because because
- 1:22:56the set almost looks like a stage in theater and then the,
- 1:23:00the actors are flowing. I, I feel like it's very
- 1:23:02theatrical and everything has a bit of, of nostalgia in it and,
- 1:23:10you know, vintage, like a little bit of a vintage appeal.
- 1:23:12And I think he is probably maybe drawn to that and drawn to old
- 1:23:15movies. You know, he loves, he loves
- 1:23:19Wizard of Oz And I believe like my favorite movie is like Rear
- 1:23:22Window. And I think that is like, I
- 1:23:23think he loved that combination of James Stewart and and
- 1:23:26Princess Grace. So I just think there's and she
- 1:23:29knew how to infuse that in the right amount.
- 1:23:31And, and it was also kind of what people were doing anyhow,
- 1:23:35like in the 80s and 90s, you were going back to the 50s and
- 1:23:3940s. That's that that was what was
- 1:23:40available for you when you went thrifting.
- 1:23:42So, so like it kind of worked as in being very present and cool,
- 1:23:47but it probably also worked on like a little bit of where,
- 1:23:50where maybe all of the things he liked was like sitting in the
- 1:23:53subconscious. I think that it worked in that
- 1:23:55way too. I remember when Mulholland Dr.
- 1:23:58Drew it, we could not find the a wool Plaid, like a Pendleton
- 1:24:03wool Plaid jacket that somebody had to wear.
- 1:24:06And I mean, we must have pulled every single one that was like
- 1:24:08available. And like, and David was like,
- 1:24:10no, no, no, no, no. And it was like, I wish Patty
- 1:24:13was here. Like it was like, you know, so
- 1:24:15it was just you don't know what it was that he was trying to
- 1:24:19like literally they were like all there.
- 1:24:21So you don't know what what it was that hit him.
- 1:24:24And and I was told that like, you know, like his collaboration
- 1:24:27with Patricia Norris like could do no wrong.
- 1:24:29Like he really, really trusted her and like, she just had that.
- 1:24:32She just had whatever it was that they made them click so
- 1:24:35well. So, so.
- 1:24:36But of course, I wasn't there. So I don't know.
- 1:24:38But yeah, I would say it's that because there is a lot of like.
- 1:24:43Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
- 1:24:45Totally and. Working with Laura Dern on Twin
- 1:24:48Peaks Return, she did bring a lot of her own personal clothing
- 1:24:51too. Whatever it was she was touching
- 1:24:54upon. Sometimes to me, I was like, you
- 1:24:55kind of wore that wild hard or, you know, whatever it was, but
- 1:24:58maybe that's why she also brought it or, you know, who
- 1:25:00knows? Maybe there was a reaction when
- 1:25:02she wore something similar the first time around.
- 1:25:04So there was a lot of spirit as that as well.
- 1:25:08And he wanted to know what she like because she wanted he
- 1:25:10wanted his cast to feel comfortable like that was, I
- 1:25:13think, almost one of his first questions.
- 1:25:15I remember when I was following Naomi Watts to set on like
- 1:25:19Mahalo Dr. He like would go up to her and he just would have
- 1:25:21that really one-on-one moment and he was like, you look
- 1:25:23perfect. How do you feel?
- 1:25:26And I remember he said that to Laura Dern as well.
- 1:25:28And I was just like wow, like this is so special.
- 1:25:31Yeah, I've got chills like 3 times.
- 1:25:34During this interview, okay, last question, who are like some
- 1:25:39of your favorite Twin Peaks characters?
- 1:25:42You have like a Max of like 3. OK, this is like Sophie's
- 1:25:46Choice, so I have. I have no idea but.
- 1:25:49I mean, let's just say. Like Nadine is amazing.
- 1:25:55That's a very you. Choice he totally.
- 1:25:58I mean, that's that's like. Thank you.
- 1:26:01Like those are the thank you moments in his, you know, 'cause
- 1:26:04they are very like, they're spooky episodes.
- 1:26:06Like he goes to the dark side. He definitely delves into like
- 1:26:09the black dark side of things, right?
- 1:26:10So you have to have some levity in Twin Peaks.
- 1:26:14So I mean Audrey Horne, I mean, I just was obsessed with her.
- 1:26:18I would wear my in the, you know, in college, I'd wear my
- 1:26:21Betsy Johnson dresses and I I bought saddle shoes and I just
- 1:26:24wanted, it was like all about like how I tried to do my
- 1:26:26eyebrows like her and everything.
- 1:26:29And gosh, now I'm just gonna now I feel like I'm not going to
- 1:26:34pick the right one for the third one.
- 1:26:36So you I could do like a editor's edit.
- 1:26:41After this too, if you if you change your mind, you could text
- 1:26:43me. I mean there's some things I
- 1:26:45stay line wise that I don't even know if.
- 1:26:47People are catching some in fittings and I'm like, new shoes
- 1:26:49because of, like, Leo's character.
- 1:26:51Like, I just like, there's things I say when I'm still,
- 1:26:53like, in fittings that are, like, totally related to Twin
- 1:26:55Peaks. So yeah, I'm not too sure.
- 1:26:59I mean, they're all so good. I mean, I love, I love, you
- 1:27:02know, Sarah Palmer too, Grace. I mean, and you know, and then I
- 1:27:06love the log lady because she was like, what the fuck's going
- 1:27:08on? Like, you know, all these great
- 1:27:09things. So.
- 1:27:09Yeah, all so good. Jen, this.
- 1:27:13Has been so much fun. I'm so glad we got to talk about
- 1:27:15this. I mean, it would not have felt
- 1:27:17complete without you. I love Twin Peaks, I wish I
- 1:27:20could have watched it with you. We're going to have to do like a
- 1:27:21Twin Peaks night or something, watch some episodes because I
- 1:27:24had to watch this all by myself at home.
- 1:27:26So I need to watch this with an audience now.
- 1:27:29So my pleasure, pleasure. I hope I could add something to
- 1:27:31it, but I so appreciate. You letting me be on just to
- 1:27:33talk about my fandom? It's so much fun.
- 1:27:38And what? Do we have coming up in the
- 1:27:39world of Jen Starzik? I want to have you on a podcast
- 1:27:42to talk about some Jen Starzik projects coming up soon.
- 1:27:45Oh my goodness. Well, I've well, I did a pilot
- 1:27:48last year. That got picked up called Seven
- 1:27:49Sisters with Will Aubrey and I've got to reconnect with Sean
- 1:27:52Dirk and he he directed it and and I heard it did get picked
- 1:27:56up. I think they're in like the
- 1:27:57writers room. So we'll see what happens with
- 1:27:58that. That's on FX.
- 1:27:59It was fabulous. Stars Elizabeth Olsen, Christine
- 1:28:02Milioti, amazing cast, like ensemble cast.
- 1:28:06And then I'm going to start this project, which I always feel
- 1:28:09like we're talking about something that's not happening
- 1:28:11yet, but it's the Challenger based on the Challenger
- 1:28:16explosion, the tragedy of the Challenger explosion.
- 1:28:18And Kristen Stewart plays Sally Ride and kind of talking about,
- 1:28:22not kind of talking about that story and going into that.
- 1:28:25And I've also got into the art world.
- 1:28:26I just, I had a quilt piece up right now at a current exhibit.
- 1:28:29Yeah. And it's at Interlace at 2413
- 1:28:33Hyperion. And I was happy to say it's
- 1:28:35sold. So that was really awesome.
- 1:28:36Incredible, Jen. OK, great.
- 1:28:38All right. Well, thank you.
- 1:28:39So. Much for being here we I can't
- 1:28:41wait to check out these projects and thank you so much for coming
- 1:28:44and I hope I get to see you in the red room someday that would
- 1:28:48be kind of a cool place to run into you.
- 1:28:49Absolutely my pleasure. But we're not going to ask how's
- 1:28:53Annie? We already know it's we're going
- 1:28:54to keep it at high. Frequency, blue skies and golden
- 1:28:58sunshine all along the way, as he says.
- 1:29:00Yeah. All right.
- 1:29:02Thank you so much. Appreciate.
- 1:29:04It bye. Sensor I love that interview.
- 1:29:12That was so much. Fun.
- 1:29:14It was fun. It was always a good time
- 1:29:16hanging out with my. Friend Jen Starzik, she's so
- 1:29:18funny. I loved when I logged on and she
- 1:29:21had that entire background of all those props, the like rap
- 1:29:25gifts from Kyle Blacklin and the poster and the photos of her and
- 1:29:30Hawk. I was like, I was like, I don't
- 1:29:32even need to say anything, just take it away.
- 1:29:34Jen, this is amazing. It was so incredible.
- 1:29:38I love that she was. A fan who got to work on the
- 1:29:41Return. It was just so, so cool.
- 1:29:45Yeah, and the Return is such a fun show too.
- 1:29:48I'm not done with it yet. You finished it.
- 1:29:51I know you have thoughts and feelings, so we're going to have
- 1:29:53to do a coffee recap, but I'm loving it so far.
- 1:29:57It's fun. I just want to savor it.
- 1:30:00I love Dougie, he is hilarious. I in terms of costumes, I'm
- 1:30:05loving the fact that Naomi Watts is still forcing this
- 1:30:09doppelganger to wear these like oversized lime green suits that
- 1:30:14he clearly does not fit in. Still, that is a funny costume.
- 1:30:20Note. And Laura Dern's character,
- 1:30:24she's looking real good. And these, I mean, she looks
- 1:30:27fucking fierce. When she shows.
- 1:30:29Up she's not in it so much yet where I'm at.
- 1:30:32But when she shows up I'm like OK, loving all those moments.
- 1:30:37But more Twin Peaks to return. I'm sure in our future I'll
- 1:30:42bring it up probably next episode.
- 1:30:43And Spencer, I don't know about you.
- 1:30:47But I don't feel the need to do a stitch rating on this because
- 1:30:53if it's not 5 out of five, like, what are we doing?
- 1:30:56Oh yeah, it's a it's a 5 out of 5 for me.
- 1:30:59I just, I loved Twin Peaks. It's honestly one of my favorite
- 1:31:03shows right now. I really, really enjoyed it,
- 1:31:05which is why we took so long to come out with the episode
- 1:31:07because I was like, I'm not rushing this.
- 1:31:09I want to enjoy it. So it is what it is.
- 1:31:13Let's move on. It is what it is.
- 1:31:15But I think you can agree that we can.
- 1:31:17Choose A1 costume to rule them all.
- 1:31:19Hit it. The one costume to rule them
- 1:31:24all. Spencer, what's your one costume
- 1:31:30to rule them all? I mean, I'm not sure.
- 1:31:32I can't pick A1 costume, but I think.
- 1:31:35I think I do have my one costume, though.
- 1:31:38I have to go with Agent Dale Cooper's overcoat.
- 1:31:43I just think they're hilarious. It's the FBI uniform.
- 1:31:47We're committed to the bit. We have to wear it at all times.
- 1:31:51And it's just, to me, it just says so much to like the David
- 1:31:55Lynch aesthetic. It just says something about
- 1:31:57like, we have this weird, like timeless quality, but we also
- 1:32:02have this otherworldly aesthetic that's like blended together,
- 1:32:06you know, it's it just, it really just has like the David
- 1:32:11Lynch aesthetic all wrapped together in one place.
- 1:32:14Is that overcoat? It truly, truly does.
- 1:32:19MY1 costume to rule them all. I feel like is maybe the only
- 1:32:22other one that like also has the true, true David Lynch
- 1:32:26aesthetic, which is the man from another world.
- 1:32:30Like that all red ensemble. Yeah, chef's kiss.
- 1:32:36It's. Perfect.
- 1:32:38It is perfect. Yeah, that's a good one, him.
- 1:32:43Dancing in that that pilot episode is so good.
- 1:32:47I thought you were going to pick the diner costume.
- 1:32:50I really was put betting money on it.
- 1:32:52I I thought about it, but I was like, oh but.
- 1:32:56The man from another world, the all red.
- 1:32:59Like in. The Black Lodge, like it was
- 1:33:02just too perfect. Yeah.
- 1:33:05Well, that's a good one that I mean.
- 1:33:07There's a there's a lot of choices for Twin Peaks.
- 1:33:09We could we could go all day. Well, that brings us to the end
- 1:33:13of Twin Peaks and also to the end of our David Lynch series.
- 1:33:17It has been a journey. Thank you all for sticking with
- 1:33:20us for these three episodes. I hope you join.
- 1:33:22Enjoyed it. This has been the longest series
- 1:33:25I think we've done, aside from our spooky season.
- 1:33:27Series is maybe Hot Girl Summer. Yeah, I guess.
- 1:33:32So please. If you enjoyed it, e-mail us at
- 1:33:35theartofcostume@gmail.com or send us Adm Tell us what your
- 1:33:39favorite David Lynch film is or what your favorite costume was
- 1:33:42from one of these films. We did Dune, Blue Velvet, or we
- 1:33:46did a boatload of Twin Peaks costumes.
- 1:33:50Let's know what your favorite moment was, favorite costume was
- 1:33:53or maybe what we missed or just, you know, send us some bits
- 1:33:57about one of these films and we'll we'll be happy to read it
- 1:34:01on a future episode. As always, you can follow us on
- 1:34:05Instagram at the Art of Costume pod, TikTok at the Art of
- 1:34:08Costume, or you could check us out in the merch store at
- 1:34:11theartofcostume.com/pod store. But Elizabeth, we could, after
- 1:34:18spending some time in this logging town, which is a bit
- 1:34:21spooky, a bit dark, or even in the towns like what we saw in
- 1:34:28Blue Velvet or on a rack, as things get a little dark and
- 1:34:30spooky, I think we could spent time in another town that feels
- 1:34:34maybe a bit more bright and maybe a bit more cheerful.
- 1:34:37So can you tell us what our next episode is going to be?
- 1:34:40I definitely think we need some fun if we need some levity.
- 1:34:44And what better place to find that then in Shit's Creek,
- 1:34:49Spencer? We will be talking about the
- 1:34:52iconic series on our next episode.
- 1:34:56I'm so excited. Man, so excited, but also like
- 1:35:02completely intimidated. Shits Creek is a series that
- 1:35:05means so much to the both of us. Of course, just recently we lost
- 1:35:09Catherine O'Hara, so obviously like it's also weighing on us at
- 1:35:14the same time. We've been talking about doing
- 1:35:16this series for years now and we had this one on the calendar,
- 1:35:20but we gotta do it. So excited.
- 1:35:23There is a million in one costumes to talk about for this
- 1:35:26one. I don't know how we're it's just
- 1:35:29going to be a Myra Rose, David Rose marathon.
- 1:35:35So it's going to be so many good ones to talk about, but I'm so
- 1:35:38excited. So let's know what your favorite
- 1:35:41Schitt's Creek costumes are now, because I know you have them.
- 1:35:46So until then, costume nerds look out for the owls.
- 1:35:51They're not what they seem. No, they're not.
- 1:35:56And make sure. At the beginning of every day to
- 1:36:00have a great cup of coffee because that's how you should
- 1:36:03always get your day going. Something like that.
- 1:36:06That's some something quote something like that.