Fictional Selves

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved actor and star of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Sex and the City comes a candid and deeply personal memoir. 'Charming, self-effacing, completely authentic, and slyly wise' Ethan Hawke 'Fascinating and insightful...big-hearted and revealing...I loved this book' Carrie Brownstein 'Enjoyable' The Sunday Times 'Intelligent, wry, inquisitive' The New York Times 'Like MacLachlan himself: full of unexpected depth and self-doubt, funny' GQ 'Doesn’t pull punches' Rolling Stone 'Moving, honest and often hilarious' Woman's Own In this highly anticipated memoir, Kyle MacLachlan shares the funny, moving and utterly original story of his offbeat journey through Hollywood, the roles that shaped him and the making of a cult icon. Plucked from obscurity to star in David Lynch’s Dune, MacLachlan went on to deliver a startling performance in Blue Velvet before taking on his career-defining role as Agent Dale Cooper in the TV phenomenon Twin Peaks. From critical acclaim to the infamous – and unforgettable – Showgirls, his career has been anything but predictable. Fictional Selves is a book of doppelgangers, with MacLachlan mirrored by his own prodding ego (“Other Kyle”), the iconic characters he inhabited, and the ones that eluded his grasp but gave him a profound and surprising lens onto himself as a person and a performer. Along the way, he offers candid insights into collaborators including David Lynch, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper and Anthony Hopkins, and shares lessons learned about fear, fame, ambition, love and fatherhood. Playful, self-aware and revealing, this is the remarkable story of one of Hollywood’s most distinctive and enduring actors.. Taking us to the heights of critical success for Blue Velvet to the depths of the backyard pool in his infamous (and delightful) Showgirls love scene, MacLachlan brings us into the mind of one of the most distinctive actors of his generation, offering profound insights on collaborators like David Lynch, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Anthony Hopkins, and more. Featuring lessons learned the hard way about ambition, love, and fatherhood, this memoir is an honest look into the remarkable—and often unpredictable—life of an enduring and endearing Hollywood icon.