This previous week marked 35 years since Twin Peaks debuted on ABC, a bittersweet anniversary provided that co-creator David Lynch handed away not way back. The long-lasting director’s cult traditional sequence featured an unlimited array of well-known actors, together with Heather Graham as Annie, a diner waitress from Season 2 who was additionally a love curiosity to Particular Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). MovieWeb just lately caught up with Graham whereas she was selling her newest Western movie, Gunslingers, and the celebrated actress took time to mirror on her involvement in Lynch’s small-screen venture — particularly as his daughter just lately unveiled Lynch’s mysterious Hollywood headstone.
“I am very grateful to be in Twin Peaks. So many individuals, it was so significant to them, and I am simply grateful to be a part of that incredible TV present,” Graham instructed us. “And, you realize, he instructed me to discover ways to do Transcendental Meditation, so I will at all times be grateful to him for that as a result of I nonetheless do this every single day.”
When Twin Peaks returned in 2017, followers had been hoping Annie would resurface, for the reason that destiny of Graham’s character was shrouded in thriller again within the early ’90s. “I feel I am misplaced within the Black Lodge, however I am in a coma. However from time to time, I get up and I say I am positive, in response to some guide that somebody instructed me about,” stated Graham about her character (doubtless referencing co-creator Mark Frost’s guide, Twin Peaks: The Ultimate File). That solutions Bob’s mocking query on the finish of Season 2, “The place’s Annie?” Kind of. “However no, I want she would come again to life for certain and have one thing good occur to her.”
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“Take Care of Your self First”
Gunslingers
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- Launch Date
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April 11, 2025
- Director
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Brian Skiba
- Producers
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Randall Batinkoff, Jamie R. Thompson
MovieWeb as soon as spoke with Graham when she was selling a completely completely different Western movie: Place of Bones. Now, she’s the co-star of Gunslingers, which additionally sees her taking part in a distressed mom to a younger woman in the identical style. “Gunslingers is extra of a standard Western. And, after all, there’s these wonderful movie-star male actors [Stephen Dorff, Nicolas Cage] in it. I feel Place of Bones is a bit of bit extra of a horror-thriller Western with a feminine protagonist, which I like as a result of that style does not often have a feminine protagonist. In fact, it is an incredible factor to get to work with huge male film stars that, you realize, I’ve watched and love their work. In order that’s additionally enjoyable.”
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Graham has additionally been within the highlight just lately after opening as much as Individuals Journal about how she’s a happier particular person as of late, after turning 55 in January. The actress shared extra with MovieWeb about how she maintains such a optimistic spirit:
“It’s important, like, to simply have a perspective that all the pieces in life that you simply care about, you realize — a very powerful factor is simply feeling good inside your self, and that all the pieces else is type of secondary,” she stated. “After which, I feel you could have extra to provide whenever you deal with your self first, and also you come from a feeling-good, loving place inside your self, versus simply attempting to deal with everybody else first.”
These very concepts are additionally current in a latest movie that Graham directed, wrote, and starred in, Chosen Household, which is streaming on Hulu right here. See Graham proceed to shine in her performing profession in Gunslingers from Lionsgate, which is now out there in theaters, on demand and on digital.