Twin Peaks' final season contained an episode focused on a beauty pageant
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While much of the female cast was featured competing, Sherilyn Fenn kept her appearance limited to one speech
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Fenn's feelings about the storyline are featured in Scott Meslow's book, A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks'last comedy-driven episode got a resounding "no" from one of the show's actresses.
The second-to-last episode of the quirky crime drama focused on the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, bringing the characters back from their splintered storylines to a central event.
Donna Hayward, Shelly Johnson, Lucy Moran, Nadine Hurley, Lana Milford, and Annie Blackburn all competed in the pageant. Meanwhile, Norma Jennings, Doc Hayward, Pete Martell and Dick Tremayne served as judges. Sherilyn Fenn's character, Audrey Horne, technically competed, but was only briefly featured in the episode because of the actress' staunch objection.
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"I called David [Lynch] right away and said, 'I'm not doing it. No f---ing way,'" Fenn shared, per author Scott Meslow in his book,A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks.
"Audrey was there, but I didn't, like, parade up and down a f---ing catwalk in a bathing suit," she maintained.
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Her character appeared in the episode to give a single speech during the pageant, which Fenn felt more closely aligned with her complex, rebellious character.
"There is only one way to save a forest, an idea, or anything of value — and that is by refusing to stand by and watch it die," Horne said in her speech. "There is a law of nature which is more fundamental to life than the laws of man. And when something you care about is in danger, you must act to save it, or lose it forever."
After a beat, she added, "And that is what I, as Miss Twin Peaks or as Audrey Horne, intend to do."
In a 2014 interview withThe A.V. Club, Fenn credited Lynch for his contributions to Audrey, the character written for her and whom she embodied and advocated for throughout the show's run.
"She was defined by David. She was who she was because of him. What you read on a piece of paper is one thing, but when I got there, they couldn't find saddle shoes, and he's like, 'Youhaveto have saddle shoes!' And you see that there are these certain things that are so specific to him," she said.
"One of the biggest things, though, was taking that pencil in the coffee cup. One of my two older brothers was like, 'That's so like you!' " she laughed, adding, "He meets me, this stranger, and sees something, knows what it is, and puts her in. That was really kind of cool."
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