Your Twin Peaks fun fact of the day
Day #3
During the first episodes of the second season the viewers are introduced to Mr. Tojamura, a businessman, who is later revealed to be Catherine Martell in costume.
What is curious is that not even the cast and crew knew that it was Piper Laurie, who played Catherine, under all that heavy make up.
When Lynch told Laurie about what he wanted to do with Catherine's character he told her they would take her name off the credits, so that everyone thought she had died at the fire in the sawmill. But he told her that she was going to come back but in disguise, and that's when Mr. Tojamura was created.
Laurie wasn't allowed to tell anyone about it, not even the guest directors or her family. Very few people knew, one of them being Paula Shimatsu, Mark Frost's assistant. She dealt with the press and released a bio about the new cast member named Fumio Yamaguchi. A star who primarily worked with Kurosawa.
On set she acted as a strange foreigner actor and spoke in fake Japanese, that Shimatsu's brother who knew what was going on and played Mr. Tojamura's assistant on the show, "translated" for her things such as: "This is not how Kurosawa works!"
The other actors on set were a bit intimidated by "Fumio" and thought he was a weird actor. But after a few days on set they realized something was up, as they could see he was wearing lots of makeup. They never said anything to "Fumio". Peggy Lipton, who played Norma Jennings, thought it was Isabella Rosellini in costume. Jack Nance, who played Pete Martell, and had a fair share of scenes with Mr. Tojamura didn't know it was Laurie until weeks later when he read the reveal in the script.
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I don't quite get Josie, Pete, and Catherine's deal in this show. Like it seems like they're all living together? and this was Andrew's house before he died and left Josie everything, so it makes sense that she lives here. But Catherine also does, and she was Andrew's sister (i think)? and Pete? Are Catherine and Pete married? but they seem to just super hate each other. And why would Josie and her sister in law live together anyways? Maybe I misses like 2 sentences that would un-confound everything
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Patron original art reward! Pete Martell, from Twin Peaks!
(Patreon.com/JoJoSeames)
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Yesterday I was like, “What was young Jack Nance all about?”
Anyway I’m delighted.
[Original photos from The UNT Digital Library]
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You’d never guess — there was a fish IN the percolator!
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"On the morning of February 24, in the town of Twin Peaks, Washington, logger Pete Martell discovers a naked corpse tightly wrapped in a sheet of clear plastic on the bank of a river..."
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I like that dalle mini knows that Coop would be the obligate human character.
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