This Is the Girl, Mulholland Drive (2001)
Adam Kesher has lost control of his movie. In a boardroom the Castigliane brothers show him a headshot of an unknown actress, Camilla Rhodes, and tell him she is the girl.
That night the Cowboy tells him how it will go. When he sees the girl from the photograph, he will say she is the one. "You will see me one more time if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad."
In the film the record is partly distorted, as if the voice and the girl do not quite belong to each other.
Lynch on the music of that time: "'50s music held a happiness for sure, but you know Elvis also sings 'Heartbreak Hotel,' and there's a kind of sweet sadness, and that dream thing that could go either way."
Melissa George never auditioned. The casting director took a Polaroid of her. "David Lynch put the Polaroid pictures on a table, and he basically meditated on our faces and he came to my face and said, 'This is the girl.'"
