Kyle MacLachlan on Being ‘A Regular Guy from Yakima’ Who’s ‘Drawn to Darkness’
Do you feel like you ever figured it out? A version of him. Yeah, I think so. But there’s always problems. Either he’s a murderer or impotent. There’s always things. It’s like, “Oh, he has another problem besides that.” The romantic hero, he’s perfect, but maybe he’s got some other sort of major issue he’s kind of getting through. When you watch Timothée Chalamet now in Dune, do you see yourself? I don’t, really, but when I watched the movies, I was very nostalgic. I felt like I was revisiting something. The scene where he puts his hand in the pain box, it was almost word for word, because it’s from the book. I’m like, “Oh God, I remember that day and I remember working with Siân Phillips and I remember the costume and then how the camera moved and the choices I made walking in.” I mean, everything came kind of flooding back in a very unexpected way. And then I was like, “Oh, that would have been a great scene. I wish we’d …
