These are Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks’ favourite movies, according to Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan has shared a list of 10 films that he thinks would be his Twin Peaks character Dale Cooper’s favourites – check out the list below.

MacLachlan played the FBI agent Cooper in David Lynch’s cult show Twin Peaks in its initial run in 1990 and 1991, its 1992 spin-off film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and its 2017 revival, Twin Peaks: The Return.

The eccentric investigator is assigned to the town of Twin Peaks in the show to look into the brutal murder of the high school student Laura Palmer, although he is often more interested in the quality of the coffee and a good cherry pie than anything else.

Now, in a post on the film social networking site Letterboxd, MacLachlan has posted a list of films that he has described as “Dale Cooper’s picks”.

The list includes the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window, the subversive 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria and the satirical 1979 Peter Sellers comedy-drama Being There.

It also includes a couple of noir classics – 1944’s Laura and Double Indemnity – as well as Ingmar Bergman’s arthouse gem Persona, the James Stewart courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder and the 1981 sex comedy Waitress!

In a moment of meta self-reflection, the list is rounded out by Blue Velvet, Lynch and MacLachlan’s previous collaboration, and Fire Walk With Me itself.

MacLachlan is currently starring in the highly anticipated television adaptation of the video game franchise, Fallout, which arrived on Prime Video earlier this month.

And the actor, at the request of his Fallout co-star Ella Purnell, recently sent the “sweetest” video to a Twin Peaks mega fan.

Speaking to NME, Purnell revealed that she’d left it late to get her friend – who was a huge fan of the David Lynch show – a Christmas gift and so asked MacLachlan if he’d be able to make him a video instead – and he agreed.

“I have a really really good friend who is a huge Twin Peaks fan,” she said. “I got him for Secret Santa and so I asked Kyle if he would do a video. I never do stuff like this but honestly I didn’t buy a present and I’d left it to the last minute and panicked – that’s what really happened – and Kyle made him the sweetest video – it’s about two minutes, he puts on a suit – just for this video – like what a nice guy!

“He makes all these Twin Peaks references, ‘Damn good cup of coffee!’, and then he sends it over to me. My friend cried his eyes out – he was a mess. I just think that was the sweetest thing in the whole world. Such a nice guy.”

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