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The Truth is STILL Out There: ‘X-Files’ Cast Talk Season 11

David you have a sturdy foundation with Mulder after all these years. Coming back to the show for this new season was there anything you new or nuanced you wanted to throw into the mix?

DD: That may be in the back of my mind, but that’s not really fair.  I can’t say all of the sudden ‘Hey guys I want purple hair.’ Mulder is who he is. The show is what it is. My job, as the guy who plays him, is to just make sure its as believable or funny or scary or as real as it can be and not cater to my own whims as an actor who wants to be seen one way or the other who wants to suddenly show up with a French accent.

Did you envision in 1993 you’d still be playing the character almost 25 years later?

DD: (Laughs) Well the way you put it sounds like a nightmare. So probably yeah. But, no I never thought… I remember agreeing to do the pilot and thinking I don’t really want to do television. So your life and career happens while you’re making other plans. Having said that I have no regrets and at this point nothing but gratitude. Not only is the work itself on this show gratifying, but its enabled me to have a career that I don’t think I would have had otherwise. I remember talking with my manager at the time and saying it’s a show about aliens. I like the pilot so lets do it and then I won’t worry about having to do TV because nobody is going to want to watch this. It’ll be a good pilot, but it’ll never catch on. That’s why I’m an actor and not in marketing.

Gillian your character is a trailblazer of sorts in bringing strong women to the science fiction genre on television.

GA: Before the X-files it was “Baywatch” pretty much. So seeing a professional, intelligent, equal female on TV very much started with her. So the fact that that was the beginning of the conversation and has spread and been emulated ad nauseam is gratifying.

Was it difficult for you jumping back into character?

GA: One of the biggest questions for me as an actor… coming back to something after so much time… is the fact that I don’t look a lot like the young Scully. My face is much more angular.  Obviously I’ve aged a few decades. So if that’s the case and I’m emulating someone who exists in celluloid so much younger, what are the elements of her that are still evident and which elements are appropriate and which elements are inappropriate because they are a matter of ones age. So that’s been an ongoing conundrum in trying to do right by her.

The Truth is STILL Out There: ‘X-Files’ Cast Talk Season 11

David Duchovny: Songs in the Key of X

youreadarkwizard:

Some highlights/new information:

• On the Vancouver concert: “For the coming performance, he is bringing up half his band from Los Angeles.

‘It’s keyboards, guitar and me, and the guys will sing some too,’ he said. ‘It will be vulnerable, for sure, because I wouldn’t win American Idol. I’m fine with that.’“

• On Bucky F*cking Dent becoming a film: ‘It actually started as a screenplay and now it’s reverting back to its original form. I seem to have the money to make it, so it looks like it’s happening this summer.”

• On future projects: “He is also developing a couple of shows that he may or may not be starring in.

‘I can’t really say too much about those … because they aren’t committed to shooting at the moment, so we’ll see,” he said. “When the work is good, whether it is writing, acting of singing, it doesn’t matter to me what the venue or the form is if it feels good and true and entertaining. I’ll dance if you want me to, but you don’t want me to.’“

David Duchovny: Songs in the Key of X

NYCC 2017: David Duchovny On Fox Mulder, Fake News, And More

sunshinetoday:

Can you talk a bit about Mulder and Scully in the new season? What are you allowed to tell us?

Well, I don’t know what I’m allowed to tell… [laughs]

So what do you want to tell us?

… I think what’s interesting about the relationship is their working partnership, and their reliance on one another. I think that’s what people like about the male/female partnership of Mulder and Scully. They may want a sex scene, but I guarantee you they don’t really, especially at the age we’re at now.

NYCC 2017: David Duchovny On Fox Mulder, Fake News, And More