Harry Truman (Michael Ontan) has never been the strongest character in the first two seasons on Twin Peaks, but that doesn't mean he was not loved. He was an honorary partner of Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle McLeclan), a stable leader of the Twin Peaks Police Department, and the allegedly unsaturated Overage of that complicated Dame Jososi Packard (Anoan Chen). But just as Jososi was unfortunately absent from "Twin Peaks: Returning" (her character is cursed to be a door forever, I suppose), the poor Harry never returns. Instead, his role in the series is taken over by Frank Truman (Robert Forster), Harry's brother.

In the play itself, the explanation for this sudden switch is that Harry is with a healing health. He was diagnosed with cancer about a year before the season began, as Frank and Hawk (Michael Hors) alluded to during the "return". We never see Harry on the screen, but the other characters on the show often talk about how they are rooted and how they miss his presence.

Behind the scenes, the reason for Harry's absence was simple: Ontan withdrew from acting until the "return" gathered. "Michael has been fully retired from the show business and has been for many years," said a source close to the actor, as a non -fashionist (through noise) reported in 2017.

Although it was fierce for the fans not to return Ontan, at least the reason for his absence was not as dark as the reason for the showing another Twin Peaks resident in the "return". Similar to Harry, the Lady of the Diary (Catherine Coulson) also suffered from terminal illness during the "return", but this was the case of the real -world interference with the show. The actor suffered herself from the same disease, and she actually died shortly after shooting The last scene of her character before her death in the show. Given the similarities between the fate of the Lady of the Diary and Harry's health, many fans were afraid that Ontan was going through the same struggle as his character. Fortunately, he seems to work well and really retire, nothing more or less.

Facilitating Harry's absence is the presence of Frank, which has proven to be great for the new role. He behaves very much as we have always imagined that an older Harry would, maintaining an admirable level of patience with The many colorful characters that inhabit the tops of twins. Some fans noticed how lucky it was that the show had found an actor so similar in vibration with Ontan, but there was a little more than the luck involved. In reality, Forster was chosen because he was the original choice to play Harry in the first place.

In a 2016 Interview with MoviefoneForster revealed: "He (David Lynch) wanted to hire me for the original, 25 years ago, for part, and I was dedicated to another man for a pilot who never went. So, I didn't make the original Twin Peaks, which would be a life gearbox. It's a giant hit if you remember those years, phenomenon. But I didn't do it.

Of course, it's not like Forster's career crashed and set fire to that opportunity. For several years, he had a lead role in Quentin Tarantino's "Jackkeepi Brown" And he will later starring in the critically esteemed drama "descendants" along with George Clooney. In the late 1990s, he was actually offered another opportunity to work with Lynch, and this time he took it, starring McCaini in Mulolandland. It was not a major role, but given the film it is often voted one of the best films of the entire 21st century everI would still consider it a win.

Although his role on Twin Peaks occurred 25 years later than he would like (and with only some of the grades for the first two seasons of the show, unfortunately), Forster still seemed happy with how the whole thing woke up. "I rank (" Twin Peaks ") tied to two or three other really good things in my career (...), but tied to the top and a great project," he said at Entertainment Weekly's's "Podcast on Twin Peaks", "" " just two years before Died at the age of 78. "David gave me one of the great characters."