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The death of David Lynch in January was not only tragic for the film industry, but tragic for anyone who values strange, idiosyncratic art. Though Lynch hadn’t co*pleted a project since 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, there were pretty consistent rumblings in the final years that he had another project cooking (even if Netflix didn’t want it). Now, in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, his Mulholland Drive star Naomi Watts confirmed that the auteur definitely had more to create. 

“We had a beautiful lunch at his house,” she told the outlet of a meal she shared with Lynch and Blue Velvet and Inland Empire star Laura Dern. “I knew he’d been unwell but he was in great spirits. He wanted to go back to work — Laura and I were like, ‘You can do it! You could work from the trailer.’ He was not, in any way, done. I could see the creative spirit alive in him.” She went on to call the situation “So deeply, deeply upsetting.”

In the final year of Lynch’s life, the director shared that his days of being on set for film production were likely done, hence why Watts suggested he “work from the trailer.” In August, Lynch revealed that his nearly life-long love of cigarettes had led to emphysema and had made him particularly vulnerable to infection, specifically COVID-19. Lynch ultimately died in the immediate aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires this past January. 

Watts continues that she had expected to see Lynch fairly soon again after the last lunch she shared with him and Dern. “I thought I would see him in a couple of weeks [after that last lunch] because I was here in L.A,” she tells the outlet. “There’s a lot I could share but I want to be private about it because of his family. But it was a really powerful meeting that filled me with just so much love and hope.”