Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna

Author:David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

OFFERS FOR WORK weren’t pouring in after Blue Velvet. I did turn down one thing called Tender Mercies, which starred Robert Duvall and turned out to be a great film, but I didn’t think it was right for me. Rick wasn’t encouraging me to do anything in particular—he was always really good that way.

I started living a bicoastal life after Blue Velvet, and I didn’t like that. I liked being in New York with Isabella and I loved being in Europe when I went there, but I’m way more of a homebody. When you’re moving around all the time you don’t get any work done. Still, some really cool things happened during that time. One time I was in Italy with Isabella when she was doing a movie with some Russian director, and Silvana Mangano was in the film, too, and I knew her really well. They were shooting south of Rome in the most magical places. The ground there seems to rise up into these plateaus where there are these dreamy, minimal Italian mansions with staircases going up to beautiful terraces—they’re incredible.

One night Silvana invited Isabella and me to dinner and we went to this outdoor restaurant with twinkling lights. It was mushroom season, so the entire meal was mushrooms—the mushroom for the main course was huge and thick as a steak, and there were all these mushroom courses that all tasted different. There’s Silvana, me, Isabella, and also at dinner was Marcello Mastroianni. I have to admit I was a little starstruck. He and Silvana went way back and were good friends, and he’s the nicest guy and he’s telling stories—it was just the greatest thing. Somewhere in there I told him that Fellini and I were born on the same day and that I was a giant fan of Fellini. My favorite Fellini film is 8½, but I love La Strada, too, and there’s great stuff in all of them. The next morning I walk out of the hotel and there’s a Mercedes and a driver who tells me, “I’m taking you to Cinecittà. Marcello has arranged for you to spend the day with Fellini.” So we drive into Rome, where Fellini is shooting Intervista, and he welcomes me and I get to sit with him while he works and we became kind of pals.

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