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Sherilyn Fenn, Audrey Horne Twin Peaks spin-off, and Mulholland Drive

posted 16 years ago by Qylecoop
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Seems that Mulholland Drive started out originally to be the Audrey Horne-Twin Peaks spin off series, and that Sherilyn Fenn inspired Lynch for the character of Rita in Mulholland Drive.

In a 1997 interview Fenn said about the Audrey Horne-spin off: "David was talking about 'Mulholland Drive', he talked about like 'Audrey goes to Hollywood'. She's driving along Mulholland in this convertible car,"

In Mulholland Drive's car accident scene, his direction to Laura Harring was to act like a broken porcelain doll, which is the exact same direction he gave to Sherilyn Fenn for the Wild at Heart car accident scene. In fact Lynch said that this scene in Wild at Heart came from his impression of Fenn as a porcelain doll, and from the idea of seeing a porcelain doll breaking. He kept telling her about that, and that's how the scene was born.

It's kind of sad that Lynch hasn't worked with Fenn again. Would have been great to see her starring in Mulholland Drive.

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[–] zcid47 16 years ago

i agree ..i would've totally preferred Sherilyn Fenn instead of Laura Harring
Sherilyn and Naomi ..that would´ve been so awesome!!!

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[–] Sandoz 15 years ago

Yeah, at least Sherilyn wouldn't have been as retroactively prudish about her nudity like Harring was and cajole Lynch into dimming her scenes.

I don't hate "reality" TV. . . I just hate the people who watch it.

[–] noahtenzin 15 years ago

Well... I think the expectation of the project with Sherilyn in a (co-)starring role would've been totally different, and so it may have continued on small screen, only to get aborted after 4 or 5 episodes.

And then we'd never have the great feature film. So... even trade-off.

[–] ARH 15 years ago

I thought the blurring on the nudity was Lynch's choice.

[–] Sandoz 15 years ago

Lynch chose to do it, but it was because Laura Harring requested him to do so.

This was a big topic of discussion back on the Mulholland Drive message board back when the DVD was first released.