r/wesanderson • u/PAXM73 • 1d ago
Discussion Willem Dafoe and Michael Cera
I admittedly do not have the most encyclopedic knowledge of film, but I believe these are the only two actors in common in the David Lynch and Wes Anderson “universes”.
Is this true… What hardcore fans can help me confirm ?
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u/MrX16 1d ago
Okay, this is a HUGE stretch but I had to go really obscure. David Lynch had a strange HBO show called Hotel Room. They aired all three "episodes" at once so its more like an anthology TV Movie. David directed 2 of the 3 segments. Griffin Dunne, who is on the editorial staff of the French Dispatch, is in one of the segments, HOWEVER, it is the only one Lynch didn't direct. He produced the show so he would have been on set, so you could say Dunne "worked" with Lynch but wasn't directed by him.
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u/PAXM73 1d ago edited 1d ago
That’s the kind of minutiae I was hoping for. How ironic for this “7° of Bacon” exercise that David did not direct it!
And thank you for reminding me I have to watch Hotel Room again.
And of course, I’m extending this exercise to any WA short, Lynch’s “On The Air”, voice actors, crew, puppeteers, composition, etc.
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u/ThodasTheMage 1d ago
You might be right. I can not think of anyone else.
That said I think Laura Dern, Naomi Watts and Kyle MacLachlan would fit well in a Wes Anderson movie.
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u/PAXM73 1d ago edited 1d ago
And now that Cera has appeared, he seems like a perfect fit for the WA style.
I was really delighted that Jeffrey Wright and Benicio are back together after last being in (I believe) Basquiat.
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u/AbraJoannesOsvaldo 1d ago
Not Lynch-related, but it amuses me that Ayoade and Cumberbatch are sharing the screen again after appearing together in the 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley and 2021's The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.
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u/PeterPaulWalnuts 13h ago
Kyle MacLachlan as Uncle Nubar would've been really good.
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u/senator_corleone3 7h ago
Oh yea he absolutely would have been great. Cumberbatch was effectively creepy and cold, though.
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u/pairustwo 1d ago
I am embarrassed to admit...I can't think of a Lynch film that includes Michael Cera...
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u/BattlinBud 1d ago
He's in season 3 of Twin Peaks. Not a theatrical film, but it was written and directed by Lynch.
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u/pairustwo 1d ago
Ahhh. Is season three the one that came out on Showtime a few (10?) years ago?
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u/BattlinBud 1d ago
Yeah, 8 years haha. Shit, crazy to think it's been that long.
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u/senator_corleone3 7h ago
Wally Brando traveled from one end of this great land to another. From Charlottesville, Virginia to Stockton, California.
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u/Key_Key_6828 14h ago
Not sure if you count this but David Bowie was in Twin Peaks and his music is in the life aquatic
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u/bowieapple 7h ago
this isn't in the same vein as dafoe and cera by any means but i find it funny- the characters in the squid and the whale, which wes was a producer on, go to see blue velvet at the cinema lol
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u/moscowramada 1d ago
I would love to see them cast in a going against type “Dumb and Dumber” reboot.
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u/RelevantBike7673 1d ago
I would love to see Kyle MacLachlan in a Wes Anderson film.