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Dallas' Harry Goaz returns to Showtime 'Twin Peaks' reboot, but secrets remain

'We only received our lines the morning of shooting," says Goaz. 'We didn't even receive lines for our entire scenes, only our sides.'

Dallas actor Harry Goaz created a minor internet sensation last spring for Twin Peaks fans.

Goaz, who had already shot scenes for Showtime's reboot of the cult series debuting Sunday night, revealed that David Bowie was set to return for a cameo. (Bowie had a small part in the 1992 film spinoff Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.) It didn't happen before the musician's death. The show's fans went nuts online.

Goaz, who is reprising his role as the shy Deputy Andy Brennan, got to experience first-hand how ravenous fans are for details about the show. No wonder, director David Lynch is famously secretive.

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Harry Goaz, who will return for the upcoming revival of '€œTwin Peaks,' in West Hollywood,...
Harry Goaz, who will return for the upcoming revival of '€œTwin Peaks,' in West Hollywood, Calif., April 26, 2017. Director David Lynch'€™s return to '€œTwin Peaks'€ has been kept so secretive that most cast members received scripts for only their scenes and were forbidden to discuss their roles with journalists, or even one another. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times)(BRINSON+BANKS / NYT)
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"We only received our lines the morning of shooting," Goaz told The Dallas Morning News last May. "We didn't even receive lines for our entire scenes, only our sides." Once finished, the actor handed off his script to a personal assistant who — accompanied by a witness — fed the pages straight into a shredder.

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In that same interview, Goaz admitted a few other details about his character.

"I'm very angry to say that I'm still a deputy. I have not been promoted," he said. "But I do have my own office because I saw my nameplate on a desk, so that's rather exciting for Andy."

Goaz grew up in Beaumont before moving to Los Angeles. He met Lynch while working part-time as a driver. The director was in the backseat and Goaz confided he wanted to be an actor. Lynch groaned and told him, "It is the hardest life imaginable." Goaz replied in his Texas twang, "Well, you just have to love it." Lynch hired him on the spot.

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Harry Goaz in Twin Peaks (2017)
Harry Goaz in Twin Peaks (2017)(Suzanne Tenner)

Goaz said last year that returning to the project was a rare opportunity. (The New York Times caught up with several other actors returning to the show.)

"It was magical, heart-wrenching and very tearful at the end. For everyone.

"David doesn't really direct actors so much as he paints with them. So, in that comes a lot of trust that you relinquish to him wholeheartedly," he said. "To be able to go back to that 25 years later is amazing. We have a very maternal, psychic connection."

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Goaz starred in the 2015 short film Figurehead written and directed by Dallas' Jason Reimer for The News' former style magazine, FD, and shot on location in Irving. [Disclosures: I was a producer on the film. Reimer and I also produce a podcast together called Strange.]

Goaz and director Reimer teamed up again in April for a creepy, campy teaser for the Texas Theatre's screening of  David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway.

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