David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker renowned for works like Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, has died. He was 78. In 2024, Lynch disclosed that he had been diagnosed with emphysema,

Naomi Watts said on Tuesday that she almost quit acting before David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive.

Lynch was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.