Kyle MacLachlan: ‘There was so much cocaine that a woman actually did her laundry with it’

The Dune and Twin Peaks actor is back with a post-apocalyptic juggernaut, and a hit podcast

Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLachlan in 'Twin Peaks'

Dónal Lynch

If you’ve followed Kyle MacLachlan on social media of late, you’ll know he’s adapted – like few other stars of the Eighties and Nineties, to modern pop culture.

There’s a wry viral TikTok clip of him pretending to do coke (it was cornstarch, he clarifies). On Instagram there are winking nods to some of his greatest roles – in the TV series Twin Peaks and the movie Blue Velvet. On X he avoids “the soapbox” favoured by so many actors in favour of whimsical skits.