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These characters are very different from the people we saw in the series. They're in a completely different place now. How did that change your approach on a day to day basis?

These were all kind of instinctual and unconscious choices motivated by feel and trust.

I think the important part of the change in Mulder was that he was just not working at the beginning. He's a guy who should be working, and he's not working because he's tried to make this relationship with Scully work, so what you get in the movie besides from the caper, the case, the thriller, the X-File, is a discussion of what it means to be in a relationship and also to be obsessed with their work. Or what it means to give up your work for a relationship, or sabotaging your relationship with work.

Especially for a guy like Mulder - it's not good for him not to work, and although he's trying his best when we see him, it takes a certain kind of life out of him. So for me there was an arc to explore, as he got more involved in his true passion, and then you know there is a sacrifice to be made at the end of the movie, and i think it's a very romantic one.

The movie doesn't revisit the show's mythology. Was that, at all, a decision made to allow more time with the characters and their development?

I think less a decision for the development of the characters and more a decision to make the movie understandable to somebody who didn't know anything about the mythology. The decision to make it a stand-alone movie that was a whole world in itself and totally understandable in itself, is basically a business decision to try and reach out to new fans, and I think a smart one.

You know you can't just assume that even fans are going to remember, all of those details. I don't remember. I wouldn't assume that anybody else did either. I mean I'm sure there's a handful, but you want to reach out.

You're one of very few actors who can claim one successful American TV show, let alone two. What can we expect from the second season of Californication?

More of the same, you know, I think we struck a really interesting tone with that show, which was partly crass, partly very smart and partly very sentimental, and I can't think of how we pulled that off. It's really a testament to Tom Kapinos who's the showrunner. I think its a very unique kind of show.

It's a certain magic that you can't easily write.

Yeah, and I think we did it again this year. I think we now understand what we're doing. At first, when we did the first twelve, you're just finding your way, and there's a certain kind of energy to that. It's just great and it can work. But we just finished this season on Wednesday, and I think we knew better what we were doing in terms of this show, and I think we just get better. I got one of my co-stars from the X-Files movie, Callum Rennie, to guest star in ten out of the twelve episodes, as a legendary record producer. He's a really good actor.

What do you think Fox Mulder and Hank Moody would make of each other?

I don't know, I guess they'd be really surprised at how similar they look! I think Mulder would say "It's like looking in the mirror, look at you."

That's all I can do for you, sorry!

Are we going to see any more of you as a director?

I'd love to direct more. I had a great, great time doing that; I think I've been happier doing that than almost anything I've ever done. If that's any indication of what you should be doing with your life - your happiness when you're doing that - then I should. I directed the season opener of Californication, but I would like to do another movie, it's just a matter of finding the time.

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Duchovny reveals Anderson feud

by ANDREW WILLIAMS - Friday, August 1, 2008

David Duchovny, 47, became famous as UFO-obsessed FBI agent Fox Mulder in The X Files. It ran for nine years, although he left after eight amid rumours he'd fallen out with show creator Chris Carter and co-star Gillian Anderson. He recently starred in TV show Californication. Duchovny reprises his Mulder role in film The X Files: I Want To Believe, out today.

Why did you do the film?
It was always in the back of my mind. Especially leaving the show a year before it finished, I always said to Chris and Gillian I didn’t want to destroy the show, I just wanted to do it as a movie franchise. I wanted to do another X Files film, it didn’t matter about the money. It provides some resolution in my relationships with Chris and Gillian.

Would you do more films?
Absolutely, I love how it looks and enjoy working with everyone. It’s not up to me though, it’s down to the economics of it.

This is more accessible than the first film though, is that intentional?
Yes we wanted to re-introduce the X-Files world to people and attract new fans who might not be familiar with it.

Will the lack of aliens upset the fans?
It might. Everyone knows the story can’t just be about one thing. If it was about aliens I'm sure it would have upset some people. You can't please everyone all of the time. So far though Chris tells me the fan response is very positive, they're very happy just to have the X Files world back.

Was working with Billy Connolly a laugh?
Everyone knows he’s very funny but he’s also interested in what other people have to say, which isn’t a trait of most comedians. He doesn’t feel he has to make a joke the whole time. He listens a lot. He’s not draining to be around as some comedians are.

Familiarity breeds contempt. I argued with Gillian Anderson about nothing. We couldn’t stand the sight of each other

When was the last time you saw Gillian Anderson prior to shooting the film?
It had been a number of years but when you spend that much time with someone it doesn’t feel like you’ve been apart. She’s like my sister.

After working so closely together for eight years you must have been sick of the sight of each other.
Absolutely. Familiarity breeds contempt. It’s nothing to do with the other person. All that fades away and you’re just left with the appreciation and love for the people you’ve worked with for so long. We used to argue about nothing. We couldn’t stand the sight of each other.

What’s the most extreme thing a fan’s done to meet you?
I did The Howard Stern Show. He gave this woman a series of humiliating things to do to meet me. If I’d have known about it, I’d have asked him not to. She ended up having mayonnaise spread over her ass and let them throw baloney at it until it stuck. I was as gracious as I could be under the circumstances.

What’s it like being the kind of man women will put mayonnaise on their bum to meet?
It goes up and down. Sometimes you’re popular, sometimes you’re not. It has very little to do with you or your work. It has to do with vicissitudes of business.

Did you enjoy the massive fame you achieved when X-Files first became a hit?
Some aspects are enjoyable but it becomes claustrophobic very quickly.

Have you got any favourite conspiracy theories?
My father wrote a play about Lee Harvey Oswald. There’s a strong strain of that in the Duchovny family. I think Oswald was a gunman working alone, though, ha ha.

Has your English MA ever come in handy?
I can’t think of specifically how but it’s not a bad thing to have read some of the best books ever written. I was going to write about contemporary American fiction and poetry for my dissertation.

You nearly got a PhD in English. Why did you turn your back on academia?
I didn’t think I’d be great at it. I was at a high-level school [Yale] where I saw people who were really great at it. I could do it but it was hard. I decided to find something I really wanted to do.

Have you ever been tempted to go back and finish it?
I would do if it was a possibility but I can't see how I’d get a year off to study eight hours a day and write.

What’s the worst job you’ve had?
I was a delivery boy for a meat market – which was fine, but I also had to clean inches of fat and grease off the chicken rotisserie. It was good aside from the rotisserie. It was in Greenwich Village and I got to see inside people’s homes – I’d carry the meat in and see how people live. I was 14 and found it fascinating.

Have you ever been attacked by an animal?
A seal made a run at me in Malibu. I thought he was injured, I was going to have a look and call an animal rescue group. As I got close he reared up and I ran away but he chased me. I looked behind me and thought: ‘How can an animal with no legs be outrunning me?’. He gained on me but veered off into the water. It makes you realise how puny man is, that he can’t even outrun a thing with no legs.

If you were a kangaroo what would you keep in your pouch?
A bottle of tequila.

When was the last time you had too much?
I never drink too much. I enjoy one drink, two drinks I’m drunk. I never drink three drinks. I know I don’t need it and I don’t want it. I know the English can’t understand it.

Come da titolo, David n.1 nella linea maschile sportware "Johnston & Murphy"

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Duchovny stars for Johnston & Murphy

July 30, 2008

-By Barry Janoff

The X-Files: I Want to Believe opened in an underwhelming fourth place among the top ten movies this past weekend, but actor David Duchovny is No. 1 at men's sportswear, footwear and accessories company Johnston & Murphy, where he will star in a national campaign breaking in August.

The effort, via Toth Brand Imaging, Cambridge, Mass., is anchored by a print campaign that will launch in September issues of such publications as Esquire, Forbes, Fortune and Men's Health. Support includes Internet and POP. Spend for the campaign was not disclosed.

The ads show Duchovny, with a pensive look on his face, wearing Johnston & Murphy sportswear and shoes and, in some creative, accompanied by accessories such as a briefcase and other leather goods. Text reads: "Johnston, Murphy & Duchovny." 

The effort is part of the company's recent strategy to rejuvenate the 157-year-old brand "by portraying a fresher, more dynamic and relevant image in the marketplace, as well as promote emerging categories such as luggage, small leather goods and outerwear." Former ads have featured musician Ziggy Marley, BMX rider Mat Hoffman and football star Tiki Barber.

"We're thrilled to have David Duchovny as part of our ad campaign," Jason Dasal, vp-marketing at Johnston & Murphy, Nashville, Tenn., said in a statement. "David embodies success and confidence, along with a great sense of style, communicating the ideal image for the Johnston & Murphy brand."

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More Films

some quick answers---i post all in lower case because i am lazy and a bad typist. my basketball skills have eroded even as my understanding of the game has increased. i think if this movie does well, that will make it possible to do more x files films and those in turn would definitely swing back into the whole mythology area. it's just that this first time out after a long break, we didn't want to alienate, no pun intended, any folks who might feel they had to study up in order to understand what's going on in the movie. i think you get the wisdom of that. more later.

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Nailed It

you guys asked for a set story or two. here's one---it was very cold. here's another---there was a commercial playing on tv at the time for a mexican fast food chain---a mouth practicing saying "gordita" i believe, perfecting its accent, and at the end, having perfected this accent, says in a high pitched voice---"nailed it". for some reason i loved that commercial, it tickled me. so after just about every take, especially one where my performance was lousy or something had gone desperately wrong, i would pipe in a loud falsetto---"nailed it!" to my delight, next xzibit started screeching nailed it after he screwed up and then amanda peet became a convert to the idiocy. so soon after every take, especially the bad ones, there was a chorus of "nailed it"'s. i believe, though i can't confirm it, chris carter was overheard to say "nailed it" on a couple occasions. so after the lights come up, after this movie is over, i would like to hear some nailed its from the fans. cause believe me, we did. we nailed it.

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i've distilled your responses into a fine brew and i'll try to address the most prominent questions. seems you all want to know if it was hard playing mulder gain after 6+ years off from him. yes and no. there was a time in my life when i could fall out of bed and be mulder and i think i assumed that he would always be around like an old pair of boots (government issue). not so, i found. since i have gotten older, it made sense that mulder had to feel older too---otherwise i'd just be trying to squeeze him into this cartoony frozen in time, box. so it was really a process of feeling it out---the essential character of the man doesn't change, just as all our essential characters don't change, but different things come to light in a face over time, different emphases. if i sound a little mystical here, that's because it is. i think everything kicked into gear when i worked for the first time with gillian again, as mulder and scully. i think we acted kind of like pitch pipes for one another. i'm a little tone deaf so i don't really know what i'm talking about, but i think we were the keys for each other to slip back into those skins.

i don't think gillian will be on californication. i think we as a screen couple bring way too much history into a scene and would take any viewer out of the reality of what we were trying to do. alas, i think mulder and scully is probably the only acting that she and i will do together in this lifetime. i think if you think about it, you'll understand.

and as for the movie itself---there is no way we can satisfy all the people all the time. there are just too many fans with too many secret wishes, too many wanting too many things---and that's the good news. without all of you wanting this or that from the show, we wouldn't still have the pleasure of making it for you. but i can say this---i am pleased by the movie as is chris, frank, gillian and everybody who has seen it. it's smart, scary, has a lot of the old mulder scully thing and takes us back into a world that we missed. there won't be some of this and there won't be some of that---but there will be a lot of satisfaction. i really feel that in pleasing ourselves, we will have pleased you.

keep writing, i will keep evading and answering.
dd

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D: "Come mai ci è voluto così tanto per il sequel?"
DD: "Sembra tanto, ma non è cosi tanto per noi che l'abbiamo fatto. Dopo oltre 200 episodi, tutti erano eccitati di finire (lo show) e trovare la fase successiva della propria carriera, scoprire la loro vita, crescere i propri bambini o qualunque altra cosa. Ci sono voluti un paio d'anni per tornare tutti indietro alla stessa pagina, ma ora siamo qui e l'abbiamo fatto."

D: "Cosa ci dici circa la segretezza della trama di X-Files 2: I Want to Believe?
DD: "E' un pò come "Il sesto Senso" o qualche altro film che ha semplici, ma bei risvolti nella trama, c'è un'idea centrale che è meglio se non viene racconta prima che il film esca nelle sale. Questa è l'ispirazione per tenere tutto segreto, non perchè è nella tradizione di X-Files o della cospirazione e tutto il resto."

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