Kyle MacLachlan is taking over a brand new function — podcast host.
“You may know me as that man from Twin Peaks, Intercourse and the Metropolis or the web’s dad,” MacLachlan, 66, shared throughout Us Weekly’s unique first have a look at his new “What Are We Even Doing?” podcast trailer.
The podcast — which is about to launch its first episode on Thursday, September 18 — will observe MacLachlan as he “makes an attempt to know the sensible chaos of youth tradition with out wanting like I’m attempting too laborious.”
Every week, MacLachlan could have a notable identify on the present. His lineup consists of Benito Skinner, Kaia Gerber, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Dylan O’Brien, Geraldine Viswanathan and Julian Shapiro-Barnum.
“We speak about what they love, what retains them going and now they’re navigating the excessive pace rollercoaster we name actuality,” MacLachlan continued. “Let’s get bizarre collectively. In a great way.”
Selection was first to announce on Monday, September 15, that MacLachlan was set to host the upcoming “What Are We Even Doing?” podcast. (The podcast information comes simply after it was introduced that MacLachlan’s Amazon Prime Video present Overcompensating was renewed for a second season.)
“I’ve all the time been fairly quiet about my inventive course of — it’s not precisely the type of factor actors sit round swapping notes on between takes,” MacLachlan shared in a press release on Monday. “However I’ve gotten curious. So I believed, why not begin speaking with the subsequent technology of actors, musicians, and creators to listen to how they do it — and perhaps lastly determine what ‘chopped’ means whereas I’m at it.”
Every episode will characteristic an interview with one of many Gen Z members listed above together with “a particular recreation tailor-made to every visitor” to finish the episode.
MacLachlan mentioned that he’s “thrilled” to collaborate with government producers Full Image, Elvis Duran Podcast Community and iHeartRadio to “sustain with Gen Z” by interviewing creators that embody that technology.
“Now we all know why he can grasp any function as a tremendous actor!” Elvis Duran said on Monday. “Kyle MacLachlan is the right mixture of genuine and sudden — precisely what we love on the Podcast Community. ‘What Are We Even Doing?’ goes to be a wild, good and completely enjoyable experience.”
Full Image Productions chief inventive officer and government producer Anne Partitions Gordon famous that she’s “excited to share our bizarre and wacky present with the world.”
Thursday’s “What Are We Even Doing?” premiere episode will characteristic MacLachlan and Gerber’s dialog. The episode will drop on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
