Kyle MacLachlan remembers David Lynch after death at 78

Kyle MacLachlan shelves David Lynch after his death at the age of 78.

“Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me from obscurity to star in his first and last big-budget film. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe all my career, and life in reality, his vision,” MacLachlan, 65, wrote via Instagram Thursday 16 January “What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative sea bursting forth inside him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.”

MacLachlan wrote that his friendship with Lynch “flourished”. Blue velvet and Twin Peaksand gushed that he “always found him to be the most authentic living person I had ever met.” (Lynch directed both the film and the TV show, while MacLachlan starred in them.)

“David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of man. He wasn’t interested in answers because he understood that questions are the driving force that makes us who we are. They are our spirit,” MacLachlan wrote. “While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I have lost a dear friend who envisioned a future for me and allowed me to travel into worlds I could never have conceived on my own .”

Alongside the message, MacLachlan shared a number of photos of him and Lynch over the years.

“I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and a big hug and the big honking of a voice. We talk about coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world and laugh ,” he wrote. “His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic destiny of two people who saw the best of themselves in each other.”

MacLachlan continued: “I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is so much fuller because I knew him and so much emptier now that he is gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.”

News broke Thursday that Lynch died after a battle with emphysema, which he was diagnosed with in 2020 after decades of smoking.

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the death of the man and artist, David Lynch,” Lynch’s family wrote in a Facebook post. “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There is a big hole in the world now that he is no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole.’ It is a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”