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There's an interview with him on the AV Club site. Here's what he says about Twin Peaks: Twin Peaks (1990-91)—“FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield”
MF: I could talk about that all day. David Lynch and I had talked about doing something I think the year before, but that movie went into turnaround and was never made, so then when this show came along, I think he said, “This is someone I wanna work with.” I was not in the pilot, but I was in the first show after that, and I remember getting the first two scripts after the pilot, and I tried to read them and I couldn’t follow them. I tried to read them a second time, and I still had no idea what was going on. And then I kind of gave up. I didn’t know who the hell… Laura Palmer, what? She’s dead, but nobody… I was completely confused.
And then I went in and I met with Mark Frost for the first time, and he said, “Well, I’m really happy you’re part of this!” and I said, “Yeah, me too!” And he could tell by the perplexed look in my face and voice that I had no idea what the hell this thing was about. And he said, “Have you seen the pilot?” I said, “No, I haven’t.” And he said, “Well, that explains everything.” And he pressed the intercom and spoke to the receptionist and said, “Get Miguel a pilot,” and he said, “Okay, go home and watch the pilot, and call me afterwards.” So I went home with the pilot in hand, I popped it into the cassette player, watched it, and at the end I called up everyone I knew and told them to come to my house, and I played it again. And I couldn’t believe that they were going to put this thing on TV. I could not believe it.
No one ever had seen anything like this on television; it was absolutely unbelievable. The performances and the music and the writing, and just everything—I could not believe that they were going to put this crazy, unique piece of work on TV. And they did, and it’s something I was so thankful to be a part of, especially when the character of Albert took that crazy turn and confessed to Sheriff Truman that his motivation was the same as that of Gandhi and King, and that the reason he was so acerbic and difficult with people was motivated by love, and because he wanted to make the world a better place. And then he told Sheriff Truman that he loved him. It’s so out of the blue, yet believable. Had to take a sensibility such as David Lynch’s to create something like that. We all had the most fun. Nobody was getting paid, but I don’t think we cared.
AVC: And then you went on to do Frost and Lynch’s On The Air, which didn’t do quite as well.
MF: I think On The Air was a little too bizarre for TV. [Laughs.] I had a lot of fun doing it, but I think it was a little too outside for most people. http://www.avclub.com/articles/miguel-ferrer,36233/
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