Kyle MacLachlan's Rules for a Joyful Life

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00:00Hi there, I'm Kyle MacLachlan and this is my Us Weekly cover story.

00:03It's gonna be good, I promise.

00:05It's very special to be someone that people still look to, return to.

00:34Watch, I mean that's what we do.

00:37I've been so fortunate that I've been involved in some really iconic shows that people just

00:43love in general, Sex and the City of course, Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives, How I Met

00:49Your Mother.

00:50These are all shows that still resonate with an older generation and also with a younger

00:55generation.

00:56So, it's really fun to be able to cross, kind of cross-pollinate I guess.

00:59I've definitely grown alongside my fans.

01:02I think growing up in my early part of my career, I had some really wonderful success

01:08and some challenges along the way as everyone does, but I've become more comfortable, I think,

01:15with roles that I've done that people have embraced.

01:18That maybe in the past I would have gone, okay I did that but I'm so much more than that,

01:23you know.

01:24Don't just discount me because of this or don't make this the thing that you remember me for.

01:27And as I've gotten older, I've realized, you know what, embrace that, you know, because

01:31why not?

01:32And I'm still here and I'm still doing what I love to do.

01:36And the fact that fans remember me for certain things, different types of things is really

01:40wonderful because you know what, I'm a fan and I have my favorite actors.

01:44And I remember performances that they did that I occasionally will bring up if I see them.

01:49I'm thinking about Jeff Goldblum in Buckaroo Banzai and I mean one of my all-time great

01:55performances and I bring it up and he laughs, it was so long ago, but he remembers it with

01:59such fondness and I try to bring that when people come to me about certain things that

02:03they really love me doing.

02:04It's a couple, yeah Twin Peaks is really popular, Dale Cooper of course and was such a wonderful,

02:11wonderful character and experience and working with my dear friend David.

02:15So that was, that's very special.

02:18Sex and the City is always around just because it was so groundbreaking at the time.

02:23Such wonderful crew and cast, working with Kristen Davis was amazing.

02:29And then alongside that, Desperate Housewives, really people really respond to that as well.

02:33So those shows have really stood the test of time.

02:35And then my brief foray into single camera, which was on How I Met Your Mother, actually

02:42it wasn't single camera, it was three camera.

02:44But How I Met Your Mother and playing the captain, such a great role and so much fun and just

02:50a pleasure.

02:51So people have different things that they respond to.

02:54It's always, always interesting.

02:55It's always curious and I love seeing their faces, they always have big smiles.

02:58So I would first start by saying, these are things I strive for and they, you know, sometimes

03:07you're more successful than others.

03:10But I really try to lead with kindness first.

03:12I'm not always successful, but that's what I, what I try to do.

03:16I try to connect as much as I can with a person and I try not to judge because I don't know

03:25what their day was, what an hour was before or a day before or what they've grown up.

03:28I don't know anything really about them when I meet someone.

03:30So I come in and I say, I'm putting my best, you know, effort forward and they're trying

03:35to do their best too.

03:36But I don't know anything about their past.

03:38You know what I mean?

03:39So I just try to be non-judgmental.

03:41So kindness, non-judgmental.

03:44I like to have fun a little bit, I like to tease a little bit.

03:49Sometimes I misjudge the situation, but I like to make people feel at ease and I also

03:55like to make them feel like they are comfortable enough to be able to tease me back a little

03:58bit.

03:59Yeah.

04:00So those are like three ideas, I guess, about when I'm with someone or meet someone.

04:07The rest of the time is I could try to get as much sleep as I can, but I fail miserably.

04:12Being a father is completely, it completely transforms a person, I think.

04:16And it's a wonderful journey because you have no idea before you're a father what you're

04:20about to embark on.

04:22And it is challenging, rewarding, frustrating at times, such a proud dad.

04:34It's so fun to have been on this journey because two things happen.

04:38One is I begin to examine and remember my relationship with my father during this time and these periods.

04:46And then I start thinking in terms of his relationship with his father when he was this age and what

04:51I know about that relationship.

04:55And then I think again about how Calum is going to carry forward and that I'm kind of his,

05:01I'm not his mentor in this, but I'm his example, I guess, of fathering.

05:05You know what I mean?

05:06So he will carry that with him.

05:08So all of those kind of things dovetail and it's very interesting, you know, but the heart

05:15of it is just this tremendous love that you have for this child and how much you want

05:19them to succeed, but really to become their best selves.

05:24So it's really about trying to nurture that they're going to be who they're going to be.

05:29And I'm just there to make sure that I can offer any kind of help along the way, you know,

05:34and I think, and my wife, I think feels the same way.

05:36So I had done a podcast about something completely different with a friend a couple of years back

05:41called Varnum town.

05:42And that had was met with a lot of positive response.

05:45And so we were like, you know, podcast would be really interesting.

05:48What can we do?

05:49And I was like, well, and all sorts of ideas were floating around.

05:52And finally, we kind of narrowed it down to this idea of talking to a younger generation

05:57and bringing some of my input in and discovering about them and how they use social and their

06:03creative process and everything, which was interesting to me.

06:06And then I think one of my team just said, we're just like, well, what are we even doing?

06:10You know what I mean? It was one of those.

06:11And I said, yeah, you're right.

06:12What are we even doing?

06:13Because it's kind of hard to explain.

06:15And we said, oh, I think that's the title.

06:16And we just called it, what are we even doing?

06:18And we're sort of on the journey to sort of figure that out because the creative process

06:24is, you know, is all over the place.

06:26You know, there's really no way to define what you're doing.

06:28You just know you're creating something.

06:30You're on this journey.

06:31It's coming from a deep place.

06:32You know, it's joyful and expressive, obviously, and fulfilling.

06:38And it's like, well, let's talk about what that is for each person and particularly Gen

06:44Z and young millennial, because these are people that we don't, they're alien creatures.

06:49You know what I mean?

06:50So we have to understand what's happening.

06:52And as opposed to sort of just kind of, you know, disregarding, I'm like, no, no, I need

06:56to embrace this.

06:57I want to embrace this.

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