Donna Hayward

There are rumors that she's recast by Lisa Coronado. We'll see.

I would cast Moira Kelly who played Donna in Fire Walk With Me out of loyalty and for already being fine as the second Donna... although she's disappeared since 2013.

Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

I've got a feeling that in the universe of season 3 it was Donna not Laura who was murdered.

She has a kind of psychiatric cabaret. Very good. There was something about Suez.

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I've really been wondering what they will do with Donna. When I first heard Showtime was resurrecting the show, I thought that Donna was a character who might really be interesting to revist. When we saw her as a teenager, she did not have a good sense of who she was; she was always Laura's "best friend" and Laura seemed to permeate her life (even after her death):

1. She became obsessed with helping solve her murder
2. She got involved with Laura's boyfriend
3. She tried to pattern her behavior after Laura (when she visited James in jail in the original series/the Pink Room scene in Fire Walk With Me).

When Laura's murder got solved, Donna seemed to have no idea where to go. She and James parted ways, and then she learned that Ben Horne was her father - she had no clue where her life was going and she didn't have any sense of who she was outside of the other people in her life. I thought it would be so interesting to see where she was 25 years later - to see who she had become and to see what she had done with HER own life (outside of Laura, Ben Horne, James, etc.)

I wonder what Lynch and Frost are/were planning to do with Donna in this revival. It seems to be that they offered Boyle a chance to return (a really incredible offer considering she has been out of the public eye for a while and has earned a lot of negative publicity regarding her looks (very, very sad)), and she turned them down. I wonder if Donna was only to appear in a cameo - or perhaps Boyle didn't like what they planned for the character. Anyway - whatever they do for Donna - I do hope they at least give us some information about her in the book/some mentions in the show if not an appearance.

It kind of makes sense that she would appear in the new series; she was a major character in the original, and several important characters that were connected to her are reappearing (Warren Frost as her father, Alicia Witt as her sister, and James Marshall as her boyfriend). While it would be kind of annoying to recast the role a second time (I wonder if Moira Kelly was approached to take over in the revival. I would have loved that; she was excellent in the film), I could see Lynch and Frost doing that, and ultimately, I'd be interested to see what another actress did with the role. Assuming Boyle (or Kelly) will not be making a surprise appearance (and Donna has not been killed off or written off), I could see them recasting the role with:

- Jane Adams (who incidentally played Lara Flynn Boyle's sister in the 1998 film Happiness)
- Ashley Judd
- Lisa Coronado (who has really been rumored to play the role)
- Tracy Phillips
- Naomi Watts (she could take over Donna or Annie's roles IMO)

No matter what they do, I'll be interested to see what they do with Donna.

I would often think of what happened to the Twin Peaks people, over the years. Especially after getting the Gold Box. Donna Hayward? I wondered if she had a stake in the Horne businesses, maybe a way for Ben to make amends. Would Audrey let her in on it. They did seem to be on good terms. Would Audrey let Donna be a partner just to spite Ben? I also imagined Donna leaving town to put it all behind. She sure didn't seem too happy with Ben, or James. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she was not in Twin Peaks any longer.

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Why won't Laura Flynn Boyle come back... Money not good enough ? I want all the living characters to return to Twin Peaks... Even the still young sheriff who claims he's retired. That's lame. I almost don't want to see this. They can make Bob come back with CGI ... He has one look mostly crazy.