We were all together again for the final and that was beautifully moving." How are things with the family when we catch up with them? "It's about eighteen months later and it's New Year's Eve. We never dropped below seven million viewers in the eight years and we're all incredibly proud of that - cast and crew. We weren't desperately thinking we could go again if we dropped a hint! We had all accepted the fact this was it and wanted to give it a good send off. It's full of things we haven't done before and is a proper ending." How do you feel about the ending? "It's a natural conclusion, I think. Maybe I'll hang around zoos to get my fix! It's great that we got to say goodbye with this Christmas special, rather than hearing we'd been cancelled. After almost eight years of playing vet Danny Trevanion, will there be a big Wild at Heart shaped hole in your heart now? "Definitely. Incidentally, Lynch's groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks debuted later this same year, and many of that show's actors can be seen in small parts here.Wild at Heart star Stephen Tompkinson says a fond goodbye to the long-running South African drama. But for the majority of the movie, Lynch's touch works, and provides a strange, entertaining ride.
Lynch also includes some moments of plain weirdness, such as a man talking with a high-pitched voice and another man ( Jack Nance, of Eraserhead) speaking in odd riddles, which only calls attention to itself. Yet Lynch seems to have let his artistic id take over a bit too often, obsessing on both The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley, and trying to shoehorn references into the movie whenever possible - whether they fit or not. Even if they have been the victims of bad luck and made some bad choices, they are worth rooting for, and Cage and Dern are terrific in their roles (especially Dern, whose physicality in this movie is striking). In their scenes together, they seem to truly appreciate each other's nuances and to respect one another. At its core, Wild at Heart is a pretty simple, very good lovers-on-the-run film noir Sailor and Lula are super-cool yet sympathetic characters whose love is never in doubt. David Lynch's adaptation of Barry Gifford's novel contains much of his trademark powerful, nightmarish imagery, even if it also appears that he might have been grasping at straws at times.
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