Fictional Selves: Actor Kyle MacLachlan reflects on a singular career
About this Event
Join us for an evening with Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor Kyle MacLachlan as he discusses his revealing new memoir, “Fictional Selves.” Best known for his unforgettable roles in “Twin Peaks,” “Blue Velvet,” “Dune,” “Sex and the City” and "Showgirls, MacLachlan reflects on the characters that shaped his life — and the line between performance and identity. Funny, thoughtful and deeply personal, the book offers an intimate look at a singular career, from his collaborations with David Lynch to lessons learned about ambition, fatherhood and fame. Here & Now senior producer Emiko Tamagawa moderates.
Copies of “Fictional Selves” will be available to purchase from our bookstore partner Brookline Booksmith.
About “Fictional Selves”
Everywhere I go I am followed by a mystery man. He looks like me but — not quite. On talk shows, I sip coffee on couches and pretend to be him; on social media, I put on his mask to engage in suburban silliness. And of course, we work together. But for him, the movies and TV shows never end. Where does this guy — this Kyle MacLachlan — end and where do I begin? And is he even real? And, holy mackerel . . . am I?
To be in the black suit, or not to be? Kyle MacLachlan’s funny, moving and playfully self-aware memoir charts a career that could belong to no other. Plucked from obscurity to star in David Lynch’s “Dune,” the Hollywood blockbuster that never was, MacLachlan rebounded with a startling performance in Lynch’s provocative masterpiece “Blue Velvet,” which would mark him as a master of the unusual and ultimately lead to his career-defining role as Agent Dale Cooper on the TV sensation “Twin Peaks.”
“Fictional Selves” is a book of doppelgangers, with MacLachlan mirrored by his own prodding ego (“Other Kyle”), the iconic characters he inhabited and the ones that eluded his grasp but gave him a profound and surprising lens onto himself as a person and a performer. Taking us to the heights of critical success for “Blue Velvet” to the depths of the backyard pool in his infamous (and delightful) “Showgirls” love scene, MacLachlan brings us into the mind of one of the most distinctive actors of his generation, offering profound insights on collaborators like David Lynch, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Anthony Hopkins and more. Featuring lessons learned the hard way about ambition, love and fatherhood, this memoir is an honest look into the remarkable — and often unpredictable— life of an enduring and endearing Hollywood icon.
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