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David Duchovny on The X-Files: I Want to Believe
By Fred Topel | Images property of Fox
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
David Duchovny ended his run on The X-Files early, but he was game to come back for another movie. Turns out playing Mulder is a lot easier with about six years of down time to recharge.
Duchovny Wants to Believe
"The love/hate has nothing to do with the actual content, the actual people, the actual anything," said Duchovny. "The love/hate had to do with me wanting to get on with the rest of my life, the rest of my career and when you think about it, that I did eight years and Gillian did nine, that's a lifetime. There are no other dramas that keep the same characters that run that long. If you look at Law & Order or ER, they're 20 years old or whatever they are, but they're completely recast. So it's just not something you see. You don't see actors not get fatigued and not get frustrated in a drama where we're working every day for many, many hours playing the same characters. So it's just natural to burnout. There was always love for the show and love for the character. There was never any hate for that."
The X-Files: I Want to Believe picks up Mulder six years after the series ended, investigating a new mystery with supernatural undertones. It's pretty serious, though Duchovny fights for laughs.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
"Chris and I have always kind of battled over that. In the series it got in more and more for both of us as we went on and did what we thought of as the funny episodes. We enjoyed doing those because they were like vacations and certainly Chris, as the show runner, was guiding that and letting that happen and saw the virtue in what a huge tent this show had so that it could encompass everything from stand alones to mythology to parody of itself. I can't think of another show that ever did that. We just never did the musical. We never did that, but that's the only thing, thank goodness. But in terms of me coming up with stuff in the moment, usually Chris doesn't like that because he has a different theory about the tension than I do. He really feels like it lets the air out of things and he doesn't like to do that. I feel like I like to let the air out. So that's just a difference opinion we have. I don't know what your take on that is."
Coming back to Mulder, Duchovny still felt the same chemistry with Gillian Anderson playing Scully. "After this long we actually do have a history and so when I look over at Gillian or I'm Mulder looking over at Scully, there's a lot of sh*t that I can call on. We have a lot between us and so you don't really have to make it up. I think that just as people, now 15 years later, we have just shared so much regardless of how much we speak to one another. I expect to see Gillian even if I haven't seen her for a year. I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious."
It might have taken a few weeks to get there, but it always remained beneath the surface. "I had two weeks before Christmas of basically running around and chasing Callum Rennie who plays the running bad guy that I chase all over the place. That took a good two full weeks of running even though I know it's only about 10 seconds in the movie. Then Gillian and I started working on it after Christmas break. The first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn't really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film."
The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens to theaters on July 25th.
For the trailers, posters, movie stills and more info, go to The X-Files: I Want to Believe Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property of Fox
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