Patricia Arquette Finally, Finally Explains ‘Lost Highway’: ‘In This Man’s Mind, a Woman Is Always the Monster’

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Marta Balaga The long wait is over: Patricia Arquette finally explained David Lynch’s “Lost Highway.” Kind of. “I would ask David: ‘Am I playing two characters, am I playing a ghost?’ He would say: ‘What do you think, Patrish?’ It’s a woman looked at through the distorted view of a psychotic misogynist,” she said at Series Mania. “He hates women, he doesn’t quite trust her, even though she is his wife.

He kills her but can’t remember it, then he recreates himself as this virile young man and meets her again. And now, she actually wants to fuck him and she is in love with him.

But even in this version, she is a dirty whore.” “In this man’s mind, a woman is always the monster. No matter what. I thought about Jezebel and Salomé for this part, all these bad girls of the Bible.” More explicit scenes in the cult classic, or the ones featuring nudity, proved to be quite a struggle. “I was so extremely modest: I would take a bath in the dark.

The scene when my character had to strip was terrifying to me. Some of the guys were saying crude things and I told David: ‘I am not comfortable – they are saying gross things.’ He said: ‘You read the script.