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FAN THEORY: Is Lesley in Birdman

actually Betty from Mulholland


Drive?
Recently during the David Lynch Marathon, I re-watched Mulholland
Drive and I couldnt stop thinking how Lesley from Birdman has all
the possible reasons to actually be Betty from Mulholland Drive.
Lets start from the chronological order of the events:
Betty was a new girl in LA, she was an optimistic person who
thought success and stardom is destined to be hers and just a
couple of films will make her a movie star.
However, later when she wakes up as Diane Selwyn, she finds
herself as a struggling actor and an insecure girlfriend to Camilla
Rhodes; Camilla on the other hand is a successful actress with whom
Diane did a few films as one of the many insignificant characters in a
film.
During the last few scenes of Mulholland Drive, we see Diane/Betty
hiring a contract killer to kill her movie star girlfriend Camilla. Betty
couldnt live with that guilt and shots herself too.
Somehow Betty survived that gunshot and used this divine
intervention as an opportunity to start her life again, afresh.
Betty changed her name to Lesley, and since she couldnt do much
at the movies, she became a theater person. Its been a decade now
and she adapted well to this new life until the day when in an
emotional outbreak, Laura, a character in Birdman, kisses Lesley.
The expression on Lesleys face explains everything. She isnt new
to this, she has kissed a woman before, but it has been more than a
decade since she bid goodbye to her life as Betty and became
Lesley. Now, when Laura kissed her, the memories of Camilla flashes
in front of her, even if she killer her, there was no doubt that she
passionately loved her and thus she embraced the truth and
continues kissing Laura.

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