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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Should David Lynch lay off the transcendental meditation?


Peace talk... David Lynch, seen here with his Inland Empire star, Laura Dern, has been promoting transcendental meditation in London.

Don't know about you, but David Lynch has always struck us as being one of those famous figures who does quirky in a spectacularly brilliant way. There was the wonderful episode with the cow on Hollywood Boulevard, a stunt aimed at garnering a best actress nomination for Laura Dern in his own Inland Empire, the maverick director having realised that he simply had no money to take out expensive For Your Consideration ads in Hollywood's trade magazines.

And now the creator of Twin Peaks is in London promoting transcendental meditation (which will come as small surprise to anyone who found themselves in a semi-comatose state after three hours of watching Dern wander around looking confused in Empire) and our own Paul MacInnes caught up with him to find out what it was all about.

Check out the audio here. Lynch's project can be found online here.

Joking aside, it would seem the director's beliefs have profoundly influenced his film-making in recent years. Without wishing to sound too much like Chris Morris in Brass Eye, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

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