![]() The next month, in an attempt to salvage the film, Lynch met with Kim Basinger about playing Helena. Madonna was slated to play Helena, but shortly before filming was to begin in January 1991 she dropped out, halting the production. And therefore in a dream recreate this obsessive thing where we take from one another until we are the size and shape that we think the other person should be for us. So this idea of a damaged boy who was in an obsessive situation who would try to recreate from his own view the one thing that didn't hit him or abandon him was this armless, beautiful woman. I thought I was broken and that maybe someday someone would find me beautiful. They didn't see her as broken, they saw her as beautiful. It always struck me the way people looked at the Venus. In writing, Lynch was inspired by some elements from her own childhood, telling Vice that being born with club feet, and her grandmother owning a Venus de Milo replica, influenced her insight into the characters: At first, Lynch declined to get involved, reportedly telling him "Well, that sounds kind of terrible." But Caland was eventually able to convince her to work on it. Producer Philippe Caland came up with the idea, but wanted a woman to write it, and so approached Lynch after she gave a poetry reading.
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