Watts has repeatedly credited her success as a screen star to Lynch in the past. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of her breakout movie Mulholland Drive in 2021, she wrote, “This film changed my career. David Lynch changed my life. I'm forever grateful.”

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday.

Mulholland Drive star Watts said Lynch "put me on the map" with her 2001 break-out film about the dark side of Hollywood, which earned him the award for Best Director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival alongside an Oscar nod. "My heart is broken. My Buddy Dave… The world will not be the same without him," Watts wrote on Instagram.

Laura Harring is mourning the loss of her Mulholland Drive director David Lynch, who died at age 78. The actors who worked with Lynch over his prolific career have shared their thoughts, and Harring paid tribute to the late filmmaker in a post on social media.

Naomi Wats says her “heart is broken” following the death of her Mulholland Drive director David Lynch. After the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s family announced Thursday that Lynch died at the age of 78,

Isabella Rossellini has paid tribute to her former partner and collaborator David Lynch, saying she “loved him so much”. The death of the US filmmaker, whose work included surrealist TV series Twin Peaks and films such as The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, at the age of 78 was announced on Thursday.

David Lynch, whose career spanned more than 50 years, directed surrealist mystery Mulholland Drive, in which Naomi Watts, from Shoreham, Kent, played a lead character

American filmmaker David Lynch, a master of surrealist cinema, best known for Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, has passed away. He was 78. As per reports, David Lynch

After starting her career in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Watts scored her breakout role in Lynch’s 2001 mystery thriller Mulholland Drive. She portrayed lookalikes Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn, the former of which worked to help a woman with amnesia named Rita (played by Laura Harring) unravel the truth of her identity.

David Lynch 's masterpiece Mulholland Drive is available to stream for free for UK fans. It comes amid the sad news that the legendary director has died aged 78, with his family confirming his passing in a statement yesterday (January 16).

"I believe life is a continuum and that no one really dies; they just drop their physical body, and we'll all meet again like the song says. It's sad, but it's not devastating if you think like