“Her generosity of spirit was only matched by her vibrancy as an actor; she shone onstage in her every appearance”, the festival’s artistic director, Bill Rauch, said in a statement.
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Coulson befriend Lynch in the mid-1970s and worked on his breakthrough art film, the surrealistic “Eraserhead“.
Coulson was an assistant director on Lynch’s Eraserhead in 1977, and the two reportedly began meditating together during filming. If I’m here, Log’s here.
The world’s strangest pitch got even stranger.
Lynch says he wrote the part of the Log Lady specifically for Coulson.
But what may have elicited “hmms” in the late 1970s proved a hit little more than a decade later.
Coulson had been slated to return for Showtime’s upcoming 2017 revival of Twin Peaks now being developed by Lynch and series co-creator Mark Frost.
Catherine Coulson previous year.
She added that Lynch asked her to take care of the log after the show with a cult-following ended, and that it’s in a “secure undisclosed location” with a humidifier.
At her first meeting with Cooper, she tells him that her “log saw something that night”. Coulson said her character was the “only normal person on the show”, but that she’s “had a few trauma and bonded with this Ponderosa pine”, according to Variety. The Log Lady knew how to rock a tartan skirt, wore impeccable knitwear and button-up shirts. It seems Coulson was a similarly amiable character in real life. Founder of a religion of which she remains the only adherent, she is at once the symbolic mother of the town and its bad conscience.
The actress had a recurring role in both seasons of the David Lynch series, and also appeared in the follow-up film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me“.
Coulson had worked in film and on stage since she was 15.
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The Log would often deliver cryptic, and usually not very helpful, messages to those who came and went through Twin Peaks.
