Kyle MacLachlan

One of my favorite actors. I don't think anyone can say anything bad about him. He comes as a naturally intelligent and kind man.

I had no idea he studied opera. I’m a big fan of his acting work.

He always seems to take projects he finds interesting. No because he has to work. He is the male equivalent to Isabella Rossellini in that regard.

Great choices.

I loved the episode of SVU where he killed that little shit, so satisfying

Talking about his career

Kyle played Claudius in the 2000 movie version of Hamlet while Eric Porter played Polonius in a 1980 tv movie version.

He was so gorgeous in his Twin Peaks Agent Dale Cooper days. Definitely had a gay teenage crush on him!

It's hilarious that he did Showgirls

He was so intriguing on Twin Peaks . He had a secretive manner that made him alluring

It sounds like he leads a very nice life!

Same r8 that’s the only time I had a crush on him

He has been fortunate. He's snagged some intriguing, prolific gigs. He brings it to each role he takes, from The Doors, to Twin Peaks, even to bombs like Showgirls. He always shines and is a step above everyone else in what ever he does. I look forward to every new role he takes on.

Wait a minute. How was he in The Changeling? Are you sure that's correct, OP? I've watched that film 100's of times. It's a favorite, and I don't remember seeing him in it. The Changeling is also not listed on KM's IMDB page. Explain that to me.

Compare him to Mouseboy and he certainly has the superior ass.

What does 100 possess?

I enjoyed his role as the mayor in Portlandia. He was pitch perfect and just what the role called for.

He was great on SNL!

Kyle was always lovely

He's aged terribly

Had a huge crush on him when he was on Twin Peaks

I think he still looks good

I agree, he looks really good for age 64.

R14 He was a college student and was an extra.

I always liked him on Desperate Housewives

What a lovely guy he seems in R4's video-- soft-spoken, reflective, and grateful for everything.

R26 and sexy

He's a hoot

He played the perfect Wasp mama's boy for Charlotte in SATC. He had the look and demeanor.

He comes off too good for Hollywood.

bad dye job.

I've worked with him before and he's a great guy. A lot of fine, diverse work. and a lengthy career. One of his more interesting early films is The Hidden, a pulpy sci-fi B picture that's fantastic. Stylish and outrageous. The director, Jack Shoulder, discusses Kyle's appeal on the commentary for the disc. "I was worried about my decision to cast him because he's not a real strong looking guy. I set up the shot and he stood there, and I thought *ehh*. I looked through the camera and he looked much, much better. It was almost shocking. I took my eye off the camera and looked at him again, and looked through the lens and he looked different, he looked better, he looked stronger. It seemed to focus his looks. I've had that experience with other actors, that's why people are movie stars. It is absolutely true that when you look at them through the lens, they get bigger, they get better."

Check it out, it's a blast.

Even if he couldn't make it as an opera singer, he must have been able to sing well enough to think studying it might work out. I've never heard him sing, but he must be comparatively good, even if not opera singer caliber.

Or, is that a faulty assumption.

He improvised the lyrics to this anthem to Portland/ia, R33, intentionally channeling William Shatner.

^^^that's pretty good. Why hasn't he ever done Broadway, I wonder. He's as good as Hugh Jackman and many others who've done Broadway shows and even won awards for it.

He was in LUCKY HANK this year.

R35 Yes. He’d be a fine Jean Valjean or Don Quixote

He played a slightly odd FBI agent ? on The Good Wife who became obsessed with Elsbeth Tasconi. I wish he’d been able to reprise the role on The Good Fight.

The Hidden is a great movie. It really holds up.

I watched Blue Velvet again recently and Kyle was a big reason why the film works so well. He really taps into the dark impulses of his character. It's a difficult performance to pull off.

Plus, he's hot as fuck in the movie. Beautiful ass.

Always beautiful and sexy, I enjoy his many acting roles and unique characterizations, he still has a really nice face and demeanor, sincere, honest and authentic. I think he still looks good. :-)

I don't know if I'd classify him as low brow, but he is very much a small-town boy. Yakima is a sleepy little city mainly known for its apple orchards. I have been there a number of times, and there isn't much happening. As someone who was also raised in the Pacific NW (albeit in a big city), I have always kind of rooted for him—we don't have a wealth of talent that comes out of here, really. Kyle is a northwest treasure. The fact that he's both a good actor and good-looking gets him bonus points.

He IS the Kwisatz Haderach.

He used to be a big serial modelizer back in his handsome younger days. I have no idea if he ever married one.

Nevertheless his instrument is quite lovely.

He lives in my building in Chelsea (as does Fran Lebowitz) and I see him all the time with his kids. He always says hi and seems very gracious. And he's still very handsome.

R41 Low brow as in the roles he takes: The Flintstones, Showgirls, etc.

For Twin Peaks fans, it was pretty insulting seeing him turned into a eunuch on Sex and the City. Then again, Michael Patrick King seems to get off on emasculating men in his writing, while glorifying women who think they're men.

R47 what do you expect from a gay man?

Ass shot. The Showgirls pool scene always makes me LOL. The neon palm trees and Elizabeth Berkley's tsunami orgasm. The campiest camp that ever camped!

R46 Both The Flintstones (a huge budget of $45 million, coproduced by TWO film studios AND Steven Spielberg, the return of Elizabeth Taylor to the big screen, and made $345 million worldwide) and Showgirls (another $45 million budget and the highly anticipated follow up to Paul Verhoven's smash hit Basic Instinct) were both high profile productions at the time. The fact that they both turned out to be terrible is the fault of the directors and studios. Being signed to major productions is a good sign, most of the time.

Actors are always just taking the least embarrassing work they can find. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, you are doing the best work you can find that pays and sometimes that's the fucking Flintstones.

The Trigger Effect. Kyle and Dermot. Just thinking about it now is making me sweat.

That is one mighty fine ass in r49.

He's attractive in a classic sense

He has similar personality as David Lynch.

That’s a compliment by the way. ☝🏼

Very good looking, somewhat wooden actor. Evidence of his cleverness is that he made it work for him. Also, he knew how to show the best part of him, his spectacular ass (as shown by r49). Again, clever.

He can’t get hard.

R57 how is he wooden?

R59, he mostly plays the same version of this shy, introverted, somehow repressed character (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, etc), not very versatile.

"He lives in my building in Chelsea...."

Mr. and Mrs. Kyle MacLachlan used to live on Seventh Ave just down from FIT in that new condo conversion building. They've moved on since IIRC,

A true New Yorker...

Is he bi?

Not exaggerating, early 90's New York. Friend and I going to Barneys downtown and NY is having a heat wave in the dog days of summer. Waiting at the light, I'm standing next to Linda Evangelista, and Kyle. Evangelista beautiful of course, looked like a drowned rat, as we did, wet hair, sweating and generally hating the humidity and heat. And there stands Kyle looking handsome and cool as a cucumber. When we got into the needed Barney's air conditioning my friend and i laughed at how he could look so good while we were all miserable.

Never heard a whiff of anything that Kyle MacLachlan is anything other than straight.

He's played a gay dad and father of a gay son as acting roles, but that's far as things go.

Kyle MacLachlan is however aware many of films he's been in and or he himself has a strong LGBT following and thinks it's "great".

Since about late 1980's and certainly 1990's Chelsea from say 27th street south down into West Village and beyond (Tribeca, SoHo) has become happy celebrity sighting grounds.

Walking around down there and or say going into shops you never know who you're going to see.

Have lost count of how many famous actors have seen in Whole Foods on Union Square.

Robert Culp (yes he had all his teeth and then some, fantastic smile).

Kristen Johnston - Tall, tall girl; could hunt geese with a rake.

He just comes off as so elegant, yet so down to Earth.

Kyle still lives in the Chelsea Mercantile, r61.

R68 I believe several celebrities live there. Once I was shopping at the Whole Foods there and I as I left with my groceries I saw Nick Jonas entering that building.

Showed his cock for a second in Blue Velvet. Normal size with an inky black bush.

I know we're not normally superficial around here, but I can't get past his deformed mouth.

his tiktoks are wonderful. I'm serious

r69, yes, I live in the Chelsea Mercantile and also used to see Nick Jonas there and at the Whole Foods in our building. Not sure he's still there, that was about 7 years ago. Bobby Flay also lived there with that actress Stephanie Something but not any more. And my husband has seen both Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz walking through the lobby but I don't think there there any more, possibly just a sublet working on a film in NY. I think Katie Holmes, who had just moved in before we did, about 10 years ago, is also not living there any more. But we see Kyle and Fran Lebowitz all the time. She looks ancient in person.

Let's discuss "his craft"

he's a sweetie

He's got an excellent asshole, he has shown it in a mid-1990s movie.

That R76 was just you watching a VHS of The Flintstones on meth.

R77 = Kyle himself.

Yes, he has shown his asshole in a softcore-porn like movie.

Of course you have to pause the video at the exact moment to see his big hole, because it barely lasts one second.

Put down the pipe, crack whore. Just for barely one second.

R14 I suspect OP used ChatGPT. MacLachlan's film debut was DUNE (1984) with no experience before on TV. But Kyle MacLachlan starred in THE HIDDEN (1987) about a alien parasite radicalizing humans right after BLUE VELVET (1986). However MacLachlan never worked alongside George C. Scott.

Hi. It's me, Kyle Mchlocklnalaman. Or whatever my name is. I am always cruising The Data Lounge as all us big Hollywood stars do. It's true I am a porn star. I have a PAUSE CLAUSE in my contracts. It states I must have a scene where you can clearly see my asshole in all my films. We all do it. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, everyone. And yes, I am in The Changeling. I play George C Scott's asshole in the scene where he shows his ass.

I find it hard to forgive what he did to Bree

I find it hard to believe you never stop taking shits here.

He’s 64? We’re timing…all of us…

R82 Yes, they ruined his character after Season 4 of Desperate Housewives.

He was actually good when he exited at the end of season 6 as he called out Bree's hypocrisy over covering for Andrew but making him go to jail. It was the whole "stalking Bree" and trying to isolate her that was creepy af

R86 I liked his ending, as big "gotcha" to her. I just wish it would have paid off better.

[quote]However MacLachlan never worked alongside George C. Scott.

Well, did he work under him? Ohhhh!

[quote]We’re timing…all of us…

??

This article disagrees- he was an extra in The Changeling

He was beautiful as a younger man.....but time has definitely caught up to the portrait in his attic.

Why don't you search for the scene dumbfuxk R81 instead of claiming the scene doesn't exist?

I have seen his asscrack/butthole on the screen and it's beautiful, I have the video on my cell phone.

I don't think he is wooden. He was excellent in Twin Peaks: The Return. He should have been nominated for The Return. He had to play something like five characters. He was very menacing as Cooper's evil doppleganger.

He's alright, but looked plastic decades ago, and his perfornances are usually not convincing. Not even in "Dune", really, and that's one of his better parts. I find myself questioning the validity of his career as an actor. Not quite on a Kevin Kline level, but I question it. His ass did look good in "Showgirls", though. So, points for that.

So fucking sexy. Agent Cooper is what dreams are made of.

Gorgeous during the Twin Peaks/Showgirls era.

Can't count the number of times I've gotten off to his nude scene in Showgirls. What a hot ass. I wish the full-frontal edit would surface somewhere.

^^^^^^^

That's not the scene where his butthole appears, though it's in the same movie.

I always liked him, and he seemed to not take himself super seriously, and seemed like a nice guy all around. I know "seems" is just that. But I haven't heard much otherwise. He really was a "beauty" in his youth - really an interesting beauty IMO. And a fairly handsome man as he aged.

Ok. So where is the butthole scene then?

100th reply! Let's get to 200!

Great R100! Easy peasy, considering the passionate interest in this thread over the last 8 months! Kyle is a bop! He snaps!

[quote] He soon became a household name.

That's stretching things quite a bit.

I'm sure he vowed he'd never stop showing his asshole back in the eighties. It's what got him the DeMille award, I thought.

[quote] I'm sure he vowed he'd never stop showing his asshole back in the eighties. It's what got him the DeMille award, I thought.

This gives me something to shoot for!

He didn't need a sugar daddy

Last year, his wife said they were headed off to Oxford to visit their (tall) son.

I loved him, and everyone else, in 'Twin Peaks'. But I felt sad that I couldn't watch him in the Return. My tolerance for weirdness and scary/gross stuff has gone way down in the last decade.

He’s a good actor. He really becomes the characters he plays. I’m not attracted to him any time except when he plays Dale Cooper.

As someone upthread mentioned, see Trigger Effect. My. God.

Lipless yet still sexy

he does great tiktoks

I'm rewatching Desperate Housewives and I love him as Dr. Orson Hodge, DDS.

Talking wine & Timmy Chalamet:

He was a buttoned up but still weird FBI agent (?) on The Good Wife; very funny.

R106 the kid has a Scut Farkus look to him there. Pity. It’d be nicer if he looked more like Kyle.

Kyle seems like a good guy. Kudos.

I watched Twin Peaks for the first time this past February and I absolutely loved Special Agent Dale Cooper. What a great character. So sweet, smart, humble, a little weird, enthusiastic, brave, caring, adorable, etc. Shame how the character ended up in the original show and The Return. I wanted a better ending for him. Oh well.

He's so quirkily classy