'Twin Peaks' News: Log Lady, The Giant & Man From Another Place Actors Speak On 2016 Revival [VIDEO]
Twin Peaks featured many memorably strange characters over the course of its two seasons, and it still remains to be seen if any of them will be back for the 2016 revival.
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It's been 24 years since Twin Peaks first hit airwaves and the show's quirky imagery is still haunting fans old and new. Some characters, like The Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson), The Giant (Carel Struycken) and The Man from Another Place (Michael J. Anderson) are ingrained in many fans' memories. All three actors recently spoke about whether or not they would return for the upcoming revival series.
Coulson revealed that she is still keeping her character's famous log in a safe place in case of a return.
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"The phone rang, and it was David [Lynch], and he was calling from Paris on Skype. He said, 'We wanna be working together with you, and we're gonna do Twin Peaks.'" Coulson told Vulture. "We chatted for a while about the Log Lady, how she had matured a little bit. Then I said, 'What can I tell people?' He said, 'Tell them it's too early to talk about in detail, and don't play in the street. (...) I have kept the log in a secure, undisclosed location. In case it was called upon to come back, I've been very carefully protecting it."
This suggests that Coulson will likely be back as The Log Lady when the series airs on Showtime in 2016.
Struycken's Giant first appeared in the second season premiere, and the actor believes that his character is still alive, though he does not know if he's returning to the series.
"I've always assumed that [the Giant is] some kind of alien entity. So I also assumed that I would have a long life," he said. "But I haven't heard anything [about Twin Peaks' return], so I have no idea what's in store."
Perhaps no character was more memorable at the start of Twin Peaks than The Man from Another Place, the little person who spoke backwards to Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in a dream. Anderson addressed the 2016 Twin Peaks revival in a recent Facebook post, admitting that he probably won't be returning.
"I realize now that me reappearing in the Newest Twin Peaks is a contradiction, an oxymoron if you will," he said. That moment when I first appeared in Cooper's dream was such an unexpected shock to the nervous system of the viewers that left them petrified, frozen and paralyzed. It wasn't some brilliant character acting on my part. It was David's brilliant access to the surreal that never failed us.
"In the following decades people have replayed that terrifying moment in order to help overcome the fear of it, and in the process came to love the character (and circumstance) generating that fear. My returning to Twin Peaks would be just to see that lovable fear generator again. My original function on TP (to help create a shocking edge for reality) can no longer be done by someone as familiar (and dare I say loveable, LOL) as me. It's beautiful and wonderful that the fans would like to see me some more and I'm sure I'll milk that for all it's worth LOL, but in all honesty, my involvement is probably very unlikely. But, I understand why."
Twin Peaks is set to return to television in 2016 on Showtime, with Lynch and Mark Frost writing all nine episodes.