The Mulholland Drive star had lunch with the director weeks before he died, and says: ‘He was not, in any way, done’Mulholland Drive star Naomi Watts says that David Lynch “wanted to go back to work” before his death in January.In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Watts revealed that she had spent an afternoon with Lynch in November, along with Laura Dern, who acted in Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. “We had a beautiful lunch at his house. I knew he’d been unwell but he was in great spirits. He wanted to go back to work – Laura and I were like, ‘You can do it! You could work from the trailer.’ He was not, in any way, done. I could see the creative spirit alive in him.” Continue reading...
Naomi Watts revealed that David Lynch "wanted to go back to work" before his death, despite struggling with emphysema. Watts, who starred in Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return, had lunch with Lynch and Laura Dern in November, where they encouraged him to continue working. Lynch's last major work was Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017, though he had a cameo in The Fabelmans in 2022.
