Now I'm doing another scene in the
movie, and I go in to see my uncle.
I said David you know
that scene in the spaceship
when I go down the
corridor is very empty
Shouldn't we do something, he said let me
think about it.
Two days later he comes back and says
"Paul what can you do with a cow?"
I said "A cow?" He says
"Yeah, what can you do with a cow?"
I can milk it, I can carry him,
I don't know what you do with a cow
"Don't worry you'll have a cow"
"A cow? What do I do with a cow?"
OK, I come to set there is a full-grown
dead frozen cow hanging upside down on
chains and there are midgets pushing him
with a stick and his head is wrapped in
a bandage and his tongue
is hanging out this dead cow.
He said now what can you do with a
cow? Jesus, what can I do with a cow,
I don't know what to do with a cow.
I said "I could always take out his
tongue and eat it!"
He said "You got it!"
I said "What?"
He said "You got it"
Call in the special effects guy,
they take out the cow's tongue,
they chip out the teeth.
The cow was dead, frozen, upside down.
They take out his tongue
they take a plastic sleeve
they cook the tongue, they said
"how do you like the tongue"
I said "sweet and sour" if I have
to eat it I might as well like it
they cook the tongue and they stick
it inside of this plastic sleeve
the end is blocked off and they stick
the whole thing in the cow's mouth
So I come walking down
the corridor, see the cow,
I hit a midget and knock
him into the trough
I put my hand in the cow
and I tear out the tongue
and I walk in to see my
uncle eating this tongue
it's disgusting but
David is with a very strange head
David Lynch, I love him, very strange.
