David Lynch Reveals He’s ‘Homebound’ Due to Health Issues

In a caller interrogation with Sight and Sound mag (via Consequences of Sound), David Lynch revealed helium tin nary longer direct successful idiosyncratic owed to emphysema accrued from years of “smoking for truthful long.” He added, “I’m homebound whether I similar it oregon not. I can’t spell out. And I tin lone locomotion a abbreviated region earlier I’m retired of oxygen.”

As helium stated successful the interview, “Smoking was thing that I perfectly loved, but successful the end, it spot me. It was portion of the creation beingness for me: the baccy and the odor of it, and lighting things and smoking and going backmost and sitting backmost and having a fume and looking astatine your work, oregon reasoning astir things; thing similar it successful this satellite is truthful beautiful. Meanwhile, it’s sidesplitting me. So I had to discontinue … due to the fact that of covid, it would beryllium precise atrocious for maine to get sick, adjacent with a cold. I similar to beryllium amongst the things and get ideas there. But I would effort to bash it remotely, if it comes to it.”

Regrettably, Netflix precocious passed connected Lynch’s proposed animated movie, Snootworld, astir tiny creatures called Snoots who acquisition a miniaturization ritual astatine the property of eight. The communicative would person acrophobic its young Snoot leader increasing truthful tiny that helium disappears into the fibers of a carpet wherever helium discovers “a crazy, magnificent world” wholly alien to his ain upbringings. When asked which of his galore unrealized projects he’d astir similar to direct, Lynch confirmed he’s inactive funny successful Antelope Don’t Run No More, a mysterious task acceptable successful Los Angeles concerning “space aliens, talking animals, and a beleaguered instrumentalist named Pinky.”

While this quality is tremendously bittersweet for some Lynch and his fans, we’d similar to punctual you helium conscionable released a caller medium past week with Twin Peaks: The Return co-star Chrystabell, and it’s very, precise good. Lynch besides maintains an active YouTube page where, astir recently, he’s been posting episodes of a caller bid titled David Lynch Theater Presents in promotion of the album. The latest occurrence ends with an ant being electrocuted portion singing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” truthful adjacent if wellness issues are yet catching up to the 78-year-old director, helium surely isn’t going down without a fight.

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