Lynch: 'Dad says I'm the sickest bitch'

Jennifer Lynch has revealed that her father called her "sick" after reading the script for her upcoming movie Surveillance.

The film, Jennifer's second feature after 1993's Boxing Helena, gives an executive production credit to her father, renowned Eraserhead and Inland Empire filmmaker David Lynch.

Jennifer told The Guardian: "My father called me after he read the script a couple of years ago and he said, 'You're the sickest bitch I know!'

"He called ages later and said, 'What's happening with your movie?' and I said 'Zilch'. I told him I don't know if it's the material, if it's the 15 years raising a kid, if it's Boxing Helena, but nobody's interested.

"And he said, 'What if I put my name on it?' I'm like, 'C'mon Dad, you know how I feel about it'. Because, believe me, it's a big issue for me."

However, she revealed that after adding her father's name to the script as executive producer, she received "more offers than I knew what to do with".

Last year, reports emerged that Jennifer would direct Bollywood thriller Nagin - The Snake Woman.

Surveillance, which stars Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman, opens in UK cinemas on March 6.