During the longest during David Lynch’s film career, fans, criticisms and even collaborators who were very deceased were mystified as to the artist’s process. Some have just thought it was bizarre for the good of strangeness, while others fed the suspicion that Lynch was an enigmatic genius of the brain of the galaxy which held all the answers but refused to give them. While this last belief was partly true in some cases, most often, Lynch simply followed his own creative muse, stimulated by the fervent belief of man in the practice of transcendental meditation. Thanks to his TM, as in his dreams, Lynch would come to an idea (or, even more likely, an image) which would force him, and thus find a means of inserting him into the film on which he worked at the time. It is wrong to say that Lynch completely ignored the cinema of the past or the present – his masterclass is sufficient proof of this – but Lynch was certainly not influenced by other films, and he was not entirely invested in Hollywood politics.
The actor Justin Theroux discovered the happy and innocent ignorance of Lynch of the first hand when he worked on the failure of the best director of TV-pilot of the filmmaker, “Mulholland Dr.” At the end of the 90s, Theroux had already made a name appearing in bold independent films like “I Shot Andy Warhol” and “American Psycho” as well as to make a breach in the scene of the Comedy with appearances in “Romy and Michele’s High School Réunion” and “Zoolander” in 2001. With Jeanne Tripplehorn, with whom Stiller was out at the time. While Theroux and Stiller were trying to advance several collaborative projects, the first was thrown into “Mulholland Dr.” As Adam Kesher, a warm and fictitious young director who finds himself forced to throw a certain actress. During the shooting, Stiller came to “Mulholland Dr.” Presented to visit Theroux, and thanks to Lynch not aware of the actor, he almost accidentally found himself with part of the film.
Stiller is exceeded on Dr Mulholland Dr. Set partially inspired his cameo on the extras
According to a 2001 profile on Theroux in the Washington Times, the actor observed that Lynch was “so wonderfully disconnected from the Hollywood scene” while working on “Mulholland Dr.” So much so that Theroux thought “that he could find it difficult to name one or two directors, not to mention aspects of their life or their personalities” for the film. The proof of this came when Stiller arrived on the set to visit Theroux, an incident which led to Stiller almost being found with an actor concert on the film:
“Here is an example. Ben Stiller came to visit me on the set one day. David thought he was a supplement. He even offered him a job of supplement when we explained that Ben was just a friend and did not really look for cinema work. It shows you how much in his own world is in his own world.”
As fun as Lynch does not recognize Stiller or even knows it, which is more blatant is Stilleur who fails to make an appearance in “Mulholland Dr.”, which seems more on his shoulders than that of Lynch. Even if Lynch was not aware of “The Cable Guy” or “There is something about Mary”, we think he would have found a cool way of inserting into the world of “Mulholland Dr.” either way. In a film that also presents people like Ann Miller, Robert Forster and Billy Ray Cyrus, it would have been appropriate to see the guy who would continue to make “semets” on surrealism.
It is perhaps this missed opportunity that was in Stiller’s mind when he drew his appearance at the Camée for the first season of “Extras” by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In the episode, Stiller plays a fictitious and satirized version of himself, a selfish tyrant who directs an emotionally loaded war film. The character of Gervais, Andy, is hired as an supplement on the film, but sees an opportunity to obtain a spoken line by befriending the man whose life inspired the film, Goran (Boris Boscovic). Unfortunately, an altercation on the set leads Andy to defend Goran, then to dress the narcissist Stiller Down, which leads to a kick -off from Andy.
Perhaps Stiller, who said he was in relation to the appearance in one of David Lynch’s best films, sought to emphasize his own madness a little in this way.
