The US show, which is set to return to television screens later this month, will see the star reprise his role as the FBI Special Agent.
But he has admitted to Radio Times that he struggled to “get back into [Dale’s] skin” as he prepared for the revival of the series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch.
The show premiered on ABC in 1990 and now at the age of 58, Kyle said it was much harder than he expected to jump back into character.
“It didn’t come straightaway,” he confessed to the publication. “I had to feel my way into it and rely on David’s outside eyes on the character more than I thought I would, actually.
“I needed a bit of help to get back into his skin.”
His reaction to reprising his role was very different to the first time around when he claims, “Dale just came straight off the page”.
“I think the thing that I seized on was Agent Cooper’s boyish enthusiasm,” Kyle explained. “The moments he comes alive for certain flavours and smells.
“I’ll also admit that I channeled a little bit of David Lynch’s manner in the character.”
Kyle added that while he may have struggled to return to his character, Dale is very much just as boyish as he was in the first run.
His comments come after Twin Peaks fans took a trip down memory lane when teaser clips of the upcoming season were released earlier this year.
One clip shows Dale in the infamous scene where he smashes his head against a mirror before cutting to him in the present day next to the Twin Peaks sign.
Meanwhile, the second cryptic trailer revisits the scene when the victim Laura Palmer’s body is unwrapped.
Read the full interview with Kyle MacLachlan in this week’s issue of Radio Times, out now.
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