Peaks 'N Freaks

It's been 25 years since we said Good bye to Twin Peaks Thankfully, David Lynch Never did, to Celebrate the Show's Return To TV, EW Grabbed A Slice of Pie With all your Favorite Townies.

- Jeff Jensen

David Lynch is ready to mess with you again. He sits perched on a couch, with hands folded, in a spacious suite at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont overlooking the street that inspired one of his favorite film noirs, Sunset Boulevard. He wears a black suit, white shirt, and thin black tie—and a shy smirk on his weathered face. With his swept-back pouf of sandy hair, the legendary director of The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive, now 71, evokes the hearing-impaired FBI honcho he played on his onetime TV sensation Twin Peaks, or even a latter-day incarnation of the square and strange hero of his first movie, the surreal brain blower Eraserhead. There’s a foamy latte in a white cup on the table. Conversation can get in the way of refreshments during interviews, but not today. David Lynch has plenty of time for damn good coffee, because he sure ain’t spilling many beans about Showtime’s hotly anticipated Twin Peaks revival (premiering May 21).

Why did he want to revisit the show after 25 years? “I love the world, I love the people,” Lynch says with his pleasing nasal twang, and leaves it at that. Will there be coffee, cherry pie, or any of the other foodstuffs Twin Peaks famously fetishized? No comment. “People want to know right up until they know,” he says. “It’s really beautiful when you go into another world not knowing what you’re going to find.”