Twin Peaks is coming back for more masterful melodrama in 2017, meaning all your favs are about to be reminded how to really kill it in the TV game. Showtime (finally) announced the full cast list for David Lynch and Mark Frost's revival series on Monday, a list that of course includes noted Portlandia veteran Kyle MacLachlan as storied FBI agent Dale Cooper.
The new series, an extension of the original (and hella classic) ABC series of the same name, has officially wrapped principal photography and decided to celebrate by unveiling all 217 members of the cast. In addition to MacLachlan, several other familiar faces (Hi, David Duchovny!) made the cut in addition to an equally stacked list of fresh faces. Naomi Watts, Tom Sizemore, Sky Ferreira, Michael Cera, and the previously confirmedLaura Dern are all aboard in some capacity, which is great news for anyone who loves things that are (most likely) great:
Though the path to existence for Lynch's new batch of Peaks has been quite a rollercoaster for the fans, seeing all 217 names in a well-organized PDF certainly garners all the appropriate emotional reactions. The new Peaks will pick up twenty-five years after the disappearance of Laura Palmer, presumably ignoring MacLachlan's aforementioned Portlandia credentials entirely in favor of a more sensible narrative.
In fact, as he revealed toDeadline last year shortly after the general public received yet another confirmation in a long and brutal series of confirmations, getting the chance to return to Twin Peaks felt a bit like a waking dream. "I'd always harbored, I guess, a fantasy that I might be able to revisit the character in some way," MacLachlan said. "I so enjoyed him and he was such an interesting mix of…he's just a complex person. I didn't know what form that would take."
According to MacLachlan, he often met up with his close friend David Lynch to down some coffee and shoot the proverbial shit about their Peaks and Dune days. Those talks, however, never inspired anything to come to fruition until (of course) they suddenly did. "I was completely surprised when David said, 'It looks like we’re going to return,' and I was very excited for two reasons really, MacLachlan said of that fateful coffee meet-up. "One is the character of Dale Cooper, which is a lot of fun and the world of Twin Peaks. Secondly, the chance to work with David again because we haven't worked together as actor-director for 25 years roughly." Welcome back, Peaks.
