The mystery of why Piper Laurie and Joan Chen aren’t in the new Twin Peaks is solved
Among the handful of people who haven’t been cast in Showtime’s upcoming third season of Twin Peaks are a few actors from the show’s original two seasons. Many fans were somewhat puzzled when neither Piper Laurie nor Joan Chen who played Packard Mill bigwigs Catherine Martell and Josie Packard—were not included in the list of 217 cast members released by David Lynch last month. While the soul of Chen’s character was apparently absorbed into the wood of the Great Northern Hotel in the latter half of the second season—which, to be fair, doesn’t preclude a Lynch character’s return—Laurie’s was still very much alive when the show came to its initial end in 1991. So her absence was particularly confusing, and, as it turns out, Laurie appropriately confused.