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Vote: | All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. |
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Vote: | All those old movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Them!, The Thing, they're my favourites. |
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Vote: | All those pictures are some of my favourite movies, and they've remade almost all of them and they aren't nearly as suspenseful as the originals. |
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Vote: | And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy. |
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Vote: | But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does. |
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Vote: | But The Blob was just fun to do. |
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Vote: | I always say, I hope David never discovers that he can make a picture without me because I might never work again. |
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Vote: | I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months. |
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Vote: | Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. |
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Vote: | The Howard Hawks version of The Thing, to me, was the scariest of the science fiction movies and the best of that whole genre. |
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Vote: | To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released. |
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Vote: | We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up. |
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Jack Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), sometimes credited as John Nance, was an American stage and screen actor known for his work in offbeat or avant-garde film and theatre. He is best known for his work with film director David Lynch. He specialised in eccentric supporting roles.
Nance was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1943 and raised in Dallas, Texas. He worked for some time with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
In the 1970s, Nance met David Lynch, who cast him as the lead in his bizarre independent film Eraserhead. Nance's performance as the neurotic, big-haired Henry Spencer is an iconic one in cult film. At the time, Nance was married to the actress Catherine E. Coulson (the future Log Lady in Twin Peaks), but they divorced in 1976.
In his late middle age, Nance grew a small white moustache and was a distinctive presence in many films with his peculiar twisted smile and bug eyes. Nance remained on good terms with Lynch, who cast him in nearly all of his projects:
*Dune: a small role as the Harkonnen Captain Nefud
*Blue Velvet: a supporting role as Paul, a creepy friend of Dennis Hopper's villain
*The Cowboy and the Frenchman: plays Pete, one of the cowboys
*Twin Peaks: a memorably eccentric performance as Pete Martell, the henpecked sawmill gaffer
*Wild at Heart: a small role as the very weird 'OO Spool'
*Lost Highway: Phil
Nance died in Pasadena, California in 1996 in a tragically Lynchian manner. He was involved in a brawl outside a donut shop, in which he apparently received head injuries, which are believed to have been the cause of his death two days later.
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