"The truth is out there," is the tagline from the show that made him famous, but X-Files star David Duchovny has always kept the details of his private life firmly under wraps. "He's one of the most enigmatic and elusive stars in Hollywood," says an OK! insider. "And there are a lot of misconceptions about him." He won't be a man of mystery for much longer. Article continues below advertisement"He wants to set the record straight," says the insider. "David comes across as standoffish, but he's actually a really sensitive guy and a hopeless romantic." His love life will certainly take up a lot of real estate. He and Leoni, 54, wed in 1997 after just eight weeks of dating. But Duchovny's demanding career coupled with his womanizing ways soon drove a wedge between them. STRANGER THINGS' STAR SHANNON PURSER CONFESSES DARK STRUGGLE: 'SELF-HARM WAS SOMETHING I COULD TURN TO' "He was a lothario," says the insider. "Women flung themselves at him and he found them hard to resist." Things finally came to a head in 2008, and they briefly called it quits. Article continues below advertisement"Téa had grown suspicious that David was cheating on her and confronted him on several occasions, though he tried to deny it," the insider reveals. Heartbroken, the actress gave Duchovny an ultimatum: get treatment or get a divorce. He soon checked into The Meadows clinic in Arizona for sex addiction. (Ironically, he also played a sex addict in the series Californication from 2007 to 2014.) Rehab was just what the doctor ordered. The insider says it opened Duchovny's eyes to all the damage he was doing. RETAIL THERAPY! LAMAR ODOM STEPS OUT AGAIN AFTER HIS REHAB CRISIS!"Rehab saved him. It made him want to change his behavior and be less selfish." He and Leoni got back together, but the happy reunion didn't last, and by 2011, they split for good. "They tried to make it work, but they'd grown apart and lost the spark," the insider says. Duchovny still has regrets. "He never pretended to be perfect, but he's sorry for the hurt he caused," says the insider. "He wants Téa and his kids to know he did his best and he loves them — that will never change."Article continues below advertisementHis on-screen chemistry with X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson, 52, made headlines, but Duchovny insists nothing romantic ever happened between them. "There seems to be a certain kind of Twitter contingent that wants us to be together," he's said, "[but] Gillian and I are not lovers, or boyfriend and insider says Duchovny likely would have pursued Gillian, "but she was always with someone else, and David just wasn't her type." OOH, LA, LA! THESE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE SEX SCENES ARE NSFW & NOT *PARENT* APPROVEDThe duo didn't get along during the early days of The X-Files but eventually became good friends. When they reconnected for the 2018 reboot of the sci-fi cult favorite, Duchovny stood by Anderson's side as she demanded to be paid the same salary as her male co-star. Article continues below advertisement"He thought they should get paid equally," the insider says, adding they have no plans to reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully again anytime soon. "Gillian doesn't want to do it again. She's done, and David won't do it without her." Duchovny's got enough to keep him busy. He's hard at work on his third novel and he's passionate about his surprising new gig as a rock musician! (He's released two albums and has toured in Australia and New Zealand.)His kids have been his other saving grace. "He gets a lot of fulfillment out of fatherhood," says the insider. "He loves watching them grow into strong, independent adults." Daughter West is following in her parents' acting footsteps with the upcoming HBO Max series Vegas High. "David gives them advice on how to avoid the mistakes he made," the insider adds. "He tells them not to be tempted by all the glitter of Hollywood, and that what matters most in life is how you treat people."

20th Century Studios. It's hardly much of a surprise, but it seems that Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were just meant to be as Mulder and Scully in The X-Files. Anderson revealed the spark

David Duchovny attends a Seattle event celebrating the release of his new novella, The Reservoir in June. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images)David Duchovny had a front row view of life in New York City during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. While other New Yorkers left Manhattan for more open air areas in the winter and spring of 2020, The X-Files star stayed in his high-rise apartment that overlooked Central Park. "My son was a junior in high school, so we weren't going anywhere," Duchovny tells Yahoo Entertainment now about the mood of New York in March 2020. "There was this very real quiet that would be punctured by ambulances, but otherwise there was very little ambient street sound, which you don't realize how overwhelming it is until it's gone." (Duchovny shares two children with his ex-wife, Téa Leoni.)That's the version of Manhattan that the author and actor recreates in his just-released novella, The Reservoir. Set during the initial months after COVID-19 made landfall in New York, the narrative follows an ex-Wall Street bean counter named Ridley, who passes the long days alone in his apartment by taking time-lapse photos of the park below. Estranged from his ex-wife and adult daughter, his life is absent of any other human contact — that is, until he notices a flashing light in an apartment window across Central Park that may be another lonely soul seeking a connection."I'm always amazed at how human nature can acclimate to the strangest circumstances and soon after that, it's the new normal," Duchovny says of how he burrowed into Ridley's solitary state of mind, which goes to some increasingly strange places as his obsession with his unseen neighbor grows and cabin fever sets in. "Before anybody really knew how the virus was transmitted, we were all very superstitious and we must have all been really afraid. The danger is now that we've come out of it a little bit, some of us have come to think: 'Oh, that was a hoax' or whatever. But it wasn't."I get pissed when people say: 'Fauci backtracked on the math,'" Duchovny continues, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has overseen America's response to the pandemic. "That's how science works! They proceed by trial and error — it's not a lie if he changes his stance. It's that we have more information. My pet peeve is when people label the scientific process misinformation. Of course, they don't know [everything] right off the bat: They're figuring it out and that's going to involve some mistakes. The stakes are high and that sucks, but that's not the fault of scientists."David Duchovny's new novella, The Reservoir, recreates life in Manhattan in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image: Akashic Books)In a wide-ranging conversation, Duchovny discusses how he came to feel sympathy for the flunky financial world he created; collaborating with Meg Ryan on her upcoming feature, What Happens Later; and how he feels about Gillian Anderson's very public creative complaints about the most recent X-Files media became an outlet for younger people in the first months of the pandemic, but Ridley doesn't express an interest in any of those platforms. What was his media diet in your mind? Well, I think what's interesting about Ridley — at least to me — is that he's not young enough to live and breathe the air of social media. He hears rumors of it, but he's not savvy enough to take part in it. As I executed the book, I wanted to work my way into a sympathetic relationship with people whose beliefs in misinformation, I think, are trash. There's a beautiful human desire to want to know the answer, and we live in a world now where a figure like Q is supposed to be the key to of me gets pissed off, because misinformation is lethal in many ways, but the other part is completely sympathetic and understanding because humans are pattern-making animals. We are the ones that try to solve the puzzle or that see the world as a puzzle. So even though Ridley doesn't get sucked into the new iteration of that puzzle making, which would be Twitter and Facebook and all that, he still has that in him. And he pays for it in many that point, do you think he would have fallen in with the QAnon crowd or become an anti-vaxxer as the pandemic continued? I haven't thought of that, so I don't know if I believe this answer. [Laughs] But it's related to my previous answer: When I'm writing a story, I'm always trying to figure out why the story interests me. I don't write thrillers or potboilers, but I do like plots and I trust myself to know that if I'm drawn to a plot, there's something underpinning it. With this book, it was the relationship between Ridley and his daughter and the intensity of the emotion that Ridley's been repressing over the pandemic, because he can't see her or can't make up with her. That emotion is transmuted into this kind of false quest for the answer to everything hit these points in our recent history where we've been driven so tragically and desperately inward and alone that we are also driving outward to reach out to other people. That was the case after 9/11, but with the virus, that outward drive was taken away. There was nowhere to put it because you were alone, and the antidote to your loneliness was going to kill you. It was this terrible bind that we got put in: The feeling that you're going to die if you actually try and have a human connection with someone signs copies of his books at the 2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)Your own daughter is grown now: Did you draw on any of your own experiences as a parent for the book?Not specifically, but just the bare fact of being a father and having the recognition that when you have a child, you're balancing the desperate need to protect them with the understanding that you can't keep them safe every moment of their life. It's a devastating kind of love, but one that's a big one. So, I don't draw on my life specifically, but I draw on it historically, keeping an eye on my own soul and it's trajectory throughout this whole not a lot of sympathy among the general public for Wall Street employees these days. Did you feel sympathy for Ridley as you were creating him?It's funny, the reason why I made Ridley a Wall Streeter is that I didn't want people to have sympathy for him. I didn't want to have sympathy for him! [Laughs] I wanted to satirize the kind of person that thinks he's an artist because he's able to buy a bunch of art. So that was really the beginning of it: me saying f*** you to these guys that think they can own art and somehow that gives them credibility. But as the writing went on, Ridley started to push back against me. He was like, "Hey, stop — I'm not one-dimensional." Then things got complicated, and I'm always overjoyed when that I came to think of Ridley as an artist without hands. He does have a certain sensitivity to him, but he has no talent and no way to express it regardless of this time-lapse business that he's up to. So I have great sympathy for that because any artist feels that we're always falling short, and that everything we create is a failure. It's never this great triumph that we're led to believe when we see it celebrated on awards shows or whatever. I guarantee you, when you go home with that award you know how bad your thing is, and how it's not what you had meant it to be! If you have an artistic soul, but you can never even get close to expressing yourself, that's a tragedy worth investigating to on the set of his 2004 directorial debut, House of D. (Photo: Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection)You're currently adapting one of your other books, Bucky F*cking Dent, to the big screen. Are you enjoying the process? It's been interesting. I had originally written it as a screenplay, but was unable to get it made back in the day. So now I've re-written the screenplay with aspects that grew in the process of writing the novel. And when we shoot, there will be other demands of the form, because moviemaking is affected by a million things that writing isn't affected by, you know? Movies can be affected because of weather, because of sickness or because of a bad lunch. [Laughs] Whatever happens on those days happens, and you have to kind of allow magic to happen or disaster to happen, which isn't so much the case with writing where you're really in total Reservoir references Alfred Hitchock's Rear Window several times. If you were to make this book into a film, is that the model you'd use? It's a great question because I have thought about how this film could potentially go in many different directions. There's the Spalding Gray version, where I would be sitting at a table as Ridley reading the story, with bits and pieces dramatized. But I've also thought of it as more of a thriller where the mystery neighbor is fleshed out with more backstory. I mean, there's only two pages of dialogue in the whole book, so the story could be told in lots of different ways. There's the straight pandemic tragedy, there's the surreal, magical kind of tale. It's exciting to think about, although I doubt it'll ever get made!Meg Ryan attends the 2021 amfAR Gala in Los Angeles. Duchovny is set to star in her latest film. (Photo: Taylor Hill/WireImage)You're currently collaborating with Meg Ryan on her new film, What Happens Later. I feel like they missed a big opportunity by not bringing her back for Top Gun: Maverick. Carole Bradshaw should have been in it!I'll let her know! [Laughs] Working with Meg has been a pleasure: We're not shooting the film yet, but talk about someone who has an artist's soul and the ability to execute. I've really enjoyed working on the material with her, and listening to her vision for the film. She's pursuing an artist's life: She happened to be a huge movie star, but she's always been an X-Files co-star, Gillian Anderson, recently expressed her disappointment with how the revival ended with Scully being pregnant again. Did you know at the time that she wasn't happy with that storyline?No, that was the first I'd heard of it. Personally, I don't like to air creative grievances like that in public, so I was surprised to see it and David Duchovny in the 2016 revival of The X-Files. (Photo: Shane Harvey/Fox)Are you up for more X-Files if the opportunity presents itself or do you think the most recent series was enough?I thought the first seven years were enough! But I'm always up for more, clearly. Someone sent me a clip of Joel McHale from the 2016 episodes we did, and it's a spot-on description of where we're at six years later. I don't think [X-Files creator] Chris Carter gets enough credit for being [prescient]. Forget about the ins and outs of plots and who gets pregnant or who gets shot. I mean, every show turns into a soap opera, so you have limited options. People are going to die or get pregnant or go to prison, right? Or become think like it's a little bit in the weeds to worry about character's fates, when you realize that Chris somehow made a show in 1993, and again in 2016, that predicted what 2022 would be like. If he wanted to do more, I'd certainly listen to him. I'd say, "What have you got?" Because I want to know the future, too, you know what I mean? And not denigrating Gillian's feelings about Scully being pregnant or the character. I certainly had misgivings about my character throughout the run. It's in the nature of a long-running thing. But to take the long view, what that show is able to embrace thematically is really the key to its longevity, and if we were to do it again, it's just a question of: "What have we go to say."The Reservoir is on sale now at most major booksellers, including Amazon.

A small crowd has gathered in front of the Fox theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Carrying rolled-up copies of Variety magazine and holding up mobile phone cameras, they press their flesh as close to the metal barricade as possible. They are here to see David Duchovny, most famous for the newly resurrected science-fiction drama The X-Files, whose star is being unveiled on the Walk of Fame today. Duchovny’s closest confidantes are here, too – X-Files creator Chris Carter, Californication co-star Pamela Adlon, his manager Melanie Green, his brother – but they’re outnumbered by the strangers, the autograph seekers, and the tourists who will stop anywhere they see a fence and some security guards in is a recovering sex addict and a famously private man. During the ceremony that follows, his friend, the comedian Garry Shandling, refers to him as a “sensitive, vulnerable guy”. A few hours later, at a nearby hotel, I ask Duchovny if this is true. In his slow, laconic drawl, he says it is. “You know, Garry can stand there and tell you I’m this or I’m that,” he says, “but that’s not really the narrative that’s out there, and that’s OK.”Duchovny’s hotel room is an ornate, whimsical pastiche of styles and patterns. The entire building reeks of a pungent perfume, as though the staff were covering up an even more heinous smell. It is a fitting location in which to discuss one of the more artificial, touristy traditions of Hollywood, one about which Duchovny seems ambivalent.“You know, we live in an ironic age,” he says. “To hear Garry go up there in this quite probably cheesy ceremony from another time – you know, campy, kitschy, in a crappy part of Hollywood – it could be just awful. If you pull back a certain way, you want to just run. Listening there, I don’t know what Garry is going to say, and I hear him try to say heartfelt, loving things as a friend, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, he’s really trying to communicate, and that’s beautiful and ballsy.’ Because people are out of that habit. It’s so hostile the way we communicate socially now, and so ironic and so meta and distant and multilayered. To hear a guy go out there and say, ‘I love Dave.’ I felt exposed.”Duchovny has spent a major part of his life being exposed. The 55-year-old has now been a globally recognised face since The X-Files premiered in 1993. That fame offers a variety of perks, but it’s also a burden for someone as seemingly introverted as Duchovny. His battle with sex addiction led him to check into a rehab facility in 2008, and his on-again, off-again marriage to fellow actor Téa Leoni, with whom he has two children, has made them both fodder for tabloid speculation. In 2008, he threatened to sue the Mail On Sunday over a story alleging he had an affair with a Hungarian tennis instructor, which both parties denied. The Mail on Sunday retracted the story. That aside, he retains a reputation as a bit of a playboy and there continues to exist a prurient public interest in his private Anderson was the most notable no-show at Duchovny’s Walk of Fame event, but she did send a letter that was read aloud, a mock eulogy that ended with her jokingly saying, “He’ll always be my shining star. May his soul rest in peace.” As Agent Dana Scully, Anderson spent nine years and two motion pictures playing the foil to Duchovny’s dogged, obsessive Agent Mulder. Their fictional relationship developed from a tense partnership to a tortured romance, which in the new six-episode series has soured into a breakup. Their dynamic chemistry made fans campaign to see them together, both on screen and off. Rumours persist that Duchovny and Anderson have, at one point, been involved in a sexual relationship. (It doesn’t help that neither appears to be in a committed relationship, or aren’t letting on they are.)That Duchovny still has to answer questions about their relationship visibly frustrates him. “Gillian and I are not lovers, or boyfriend and girlfriend,” he says. “There seems to be a certain kind of Twitter contingent that wants us to be together. It’s odd to me, because I’ve never had the fantasy of wanting two people together that aren’t, or are.”We arrive at the subject of Anderson’s recent revelation that she was offered less than he was to do the new series. “I’ve done everything I can to help that whenever I could,” Duchovny says. “I think we should be paid the same to do The X-Files.” He rises in his chair to hammer home the point further. “You can ask Gillian. She knows that I have always wanted us to be paid the same, for as long as I’ve known there was a discrepancy. Hollywood payment is not fair, and it doesn’t always parcel on gender lines or race lines, or anything like that.”In fact, Duchovny has had his own war over money with 20th Century Fox. His exit from the show in 2001 followed a lawsuit filed against Fox for allegedly underpaying him millions of dollars in ancillary profits. The suit was settled out of court and he returned to the role of Fox Mulder for the final episodes of the TV series, and a second feature film, 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to addition to the financial rewards, the new series has offered Duchovny the challenge of finding a way to take Fox Mulder into the next stage of his life, without rehashing what he’d done two decades earlier. “I think it’s just the acknowledgment that 20 years have passed, at least,” he explains, “and the opportunity as an actor to try to say, ‘I can’t play it the way I played it when I was 33 or 32, because that would be obscene and weird’. It’s like seeing a 95-year-old guy in a toupee, you know.”Instead he wants Mulder to age gracefully, meeting the march of time head on, rather than clinging to the tricks he employed as a younger man. “We don’t have to change Mulder, but he’s going to keep getting older, if I get to play him. While one’s character doesn’t change, there are little adjustments we make unconsciously. As we learn, as we lose, as things fall away, as new things happen. So I thought, ‘Wow, what an opportunity.’ I can be Mulder 20 years later. He’s still going to be Mulder, but I’ve got to figure out what’s the difference.”I ask Duchovny how he thinks he’s changed himself. Does he ever wish the rest of the world could understand him the way friends like Garry Shandling do? “The need to be truly known, I feel, is an intimate, interpersonal thing. The need to be truly known seems very weird. Who really needs their innermost self to be known by more than two or three or four people?”But I want to know, I say: I’m here to know. Wouldn’t it be better just to let it all out?“If I appear indifferent or aloof, it just really means that I’m vulnerable and that I’m afraid,” he says. “So, what I’m actually saying is that, when people say, ‘Well, I’m just like anybody else’, that’s actually true. Although it just sounds like bullshit coming out of my mouth. But all that’s just kind of fear in those moments where you’re completely out of control in a crowd, or being consumed in some mass way.”Art imitating life? With Natascha McElhone in Californication, in which Duchovny plays a writer and sex addict. Photograph: Everett/Rex/ShutterstockBut crowds come with the job. Like anyone who’s lived with fame as long as he has, Duchovny possesses a certain physical presence that comes from needing to be concerned with appearance on a semi-regular basis. For today’s festivities, he’s wearing sneakers, jeans, a black T-shirt and a leather chain with an elaborate silver charm at the end – an ensemble befitting a man seen as something of a rebellious bohemian, an image cemented by some of the roles he’s chosen. In the acclaimed TV drama Californication, he played a brilliant writer and rakish sex addict – a part some took to be early roles enhanced his image as a rebellious, offbeat figure. In the thriller Kalifornia, he played a graduate student researching serial killers who unknowingly shares a ride across the US with an actual serial killer (Brad Pitt) and his girlfriend (Juliette Lewis). For a while, it appeared that every project he signed up to would be just as transgressive – the erotic serial Red Shoe Diaries, Twin Peaks – but The X-Files changed everything. His face ended up on magazine covers, action figures, trading cards, and in the dirty minds of male and female admirers across the he left the show, two years before it finally ended, he made a run at leading man status. But his big swing at blockbuster filmmaking, the Ivan Reitman comedy Evolution, stalled at the box office. After that, he wrote and directed the indie drama House Of D, co-starring Robin Williams, but that also failed to make an impact.“I don’t take a lot of pleasure in being happy in my performance if the thing doesn’t work,” Duchovny says now. “If the thing works, I’m pretty happy. Then, I’m more or less happy about what I’m doing.”What reallymakes him happy, then? In another life, he was a prep school kid who grew up in New York City, and later an Ivy League graduate studying under literary critic Harold Bloom and pursuing a PhD. On a lark, he auditioned for a commercial for Löwenbräu beer and got the job. By 1988, he’d secured a small role in the Mike Nichols film Working Girl and decided to make a go of acting. Since the end of Californication, he’s found time to publish a book – a talking animal fable called Holy Cow – and write another one. He’s released an album of soulful traditional rock and directed episodes of Californication and Bones. But, he tells me, it’s basketball that still has his ask what position he played as an undergraduate at Princeton and Duchovny’s eyes light up. He shifts in his seat and smiles. “I was a guard, but I was a shooting guard.” In an Esquire profile dating back to the original run of The X-Files, he says the most memorable moment in his life occurred on the basketball court: a bit of last-minute heroics to secure a victory for his high-school team. “Is that shot still the highlight of your life?” I wonder. I see him transition back to seriousness in a flash, ready to correct me. “More accurately, it was a game-winning assist.”For a man who just sat through a celebration of his career, Duchovny seems quite preoccupied with the unselfish nature of both basketball and acting. I can see that he really does take pride in having made the smart pass to win the game, and his language becomes more and more impassioned the deeper we get into sports talk. “I watch basketball,” he says, “and I hear those guys talk about themselves, and I just know who gets it and who doesn’t. And I’m like, ‘You will never win a championship. Oh, you might win a championship.’ Because basketball is a beautiful game. It’s not just about skill; it really is about understanding that team, whatever team you’re on. Every team’s got a different key.”For now, he’s back with his original X-Files team, and having viewed the first two episodes, it’s clear that Fox Mulder has lost his faith. It’s as though more of Duchovny has seeped into his greatest creation. Mulder was a character defined by unwavering belief, but the actor who portrays him is sceptical of most things: strangers, social media, the very concept of rocker: performing at The Cutting Room, New York, May 2015. Photograph: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images“Mulder was always the engine and Scully was like the brake,” Duchovny says. “And now we had the guy who wasn’t putting his foot on the gas and she’s not putting her foot on the gas, either. I thought, ‘Well, where is the energy coming from?’ We had to get moving, and it was hard for me to try to figure out how to drive the show without being the guy who’s driving the show. I’m not sure if I succeeded.”No one has publicly ruled out further adventures, and ratings in America have been quite good. But even if this is the end, Duchovny will still be busy. His Charles Manson drama Aquarius is coming back for a second series, and his next book, Bucky Fucking Dent, is scheduled for release later this year. It’s based on an unproduced screenplay that’s been sitting on his shelf for a few years, and returns to his love of sports, specifically baseball. “[The book] takes place in 1978 in New York, with the Yankee/Boston Red Sox pennant race as a backdrop. It’s not a baseball book, but it does use that as a backdrop. It’s a father-son story, with a love story thrown in as a curveball.”And what of his own family? He has two children with Leoni – Madelaine West, 16, and Kyd Miller, 13. Duchovny and Leoni live five blocks apart from each other in New York, and co-parent. “You know, I get asked, ‘Are your kids proud of you?’, and I’m like, ‘I don’t understand that question. I don’t care. I’m proud of them. It’s reversed. I’m watching them. I couldn’t give a shit if they watch me.”Duchovny sees himself as a bit of a teacher, a career both his mother and sister went into, and one he, too, considered before his leap into acting. He’s hoping to teach his children some of the endurance he has used to keep moving forward in showbusiness, in spite of lawsuits, divorces, tabloid scandals and unsatisfying projects.“That’s what I worry about with my kids all the time. It’s not so much [a question of] are they going to win, but are they going to come back after failing? Are they going to get hurt too bad? You want them to remain vulnerable and real, so losing is going to hurt. Failing is going to hurt. But you really want to teach them somehow. I don’t know how, because you can’t just say, ‘Hey, be resilient.’ But I think if I look at my career and I look at myself, I’m pretty resilient and maybe that’s what that [Walk of Fame] star means to me: I can make it, and I kept at it. I kept trying.”Still, it’s hard to shake the feeling that this entire day – the Walk of Fame, the interviews, the photos, even The X-Files – isn’t really who Duchovny is. So, what, if anything, does his new star on Hollywood Boulevard actually signify?He pauses and sighs. “That nothing lasts for ever, but maybe this [star] will last for a while after I’m gone, and that’s kind of cool.” Duchovny smiles. “You know, you can come back here and step on me.”

DUCHOVNY: Yeah. We had shot the first five years of The X-Files in Vancouver but now we were shooting in LA. And the Barenaked Ladies had a big hit song that referenced The X-Files. [Sings

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style TV & Radio Celebrity News DAVID DUCHOVNY has opened up on the enormity of his fame which came with The X-Files and, in turn, drove both he and Gillian Anderson "crazy". FOX/GETTYThe X-Files' David Duchovny opens up on feud with Gillian Anderson Don't miss the best new TV releases for 2022 and behind the scenes news Invalid emailWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More infoDavid and Gillian return as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in the long-awaited revival of The X-Files, which has already won over US audiences and is likely to do the same in the UK. But at the height of its success during the 90s, both actors became household names which caused turmoil between the two leading stars. Related articles "At times we were nuts with one another, where she [Anderson] was acting crazy or I was acting crazy, or we were both acting crazy," David, 55, told Radio Times. "But the thing about being crazy is you don't know you're crazy. I look back now and say, ‘Oh, I was a little nuts.' And I think Gillian would say the same. We both appreciate why the other was crazy. We get it, and forgive." FOXDavid admitted they both went 'crazy' at the height of their fame We both appreciate why the other was crazyDavid Duchoveny, Radio TimesThe actor also admitted finding the cult sci-fi series' conspiracy theories a little "hard to believe". He explained: "People can't keep secrets. I've never known anybody, not one person, to keep a secret. I find it hard to believe that they're keeping aliens from us because it's pretty juicy."The X-Files' return exceeded all expectations across the pond, eclipsing the viewing figures of its "final" episode in 2012. IPSO Regulated Copyright ©2022 Express Newspapers. "Daily Express" is a registered trademark. All rights reserved.

Complete Work. 07 Mar 2021. No Archive Warnings Apply. As the pandemic does not allow for awards shows to carry on as normal, distribution of awards will be arriving by post. 24 years after winning for The X-Files, alone in a hotel in Prague, Gillian wins her second one, but does not get to hold the statue in her hands. Już w poniedziałek i wtorek w polskim FOX-ie będziecie mogli oglądać nowe odcinki "Z Archiwum X". Serial powraca po latach z krótkim, 6-odcinkowym sezonem, w którym Mulder i Scully znów będą ganiać kosmitów i stawiać czoła wszelkiego rodzaju zjawiskom nadprzyrodzonym, spiskom i rzeczom, jakich świat nie widział. Tymczasem przyjrzyjmy się temu wszystkiemu, co ta dwójka robiła w międzyczasie na małym ekranie. Oboje mieli słabsze momenty w karierze i oboje byli w stanie je przezwyciężyć. Ale i tak wydaje się, że powrót do Archiwum X jest w tej chwili najlepszą opcją i dla nich, i dla nas, widzów. DAVID DUCHOVNY "Miasteczko Twin Peaks" Zanim jeszcze zaczął grać w "Z Archiwum X", David Duchovny pojawił się w trzech odcinkach "Miasteczka Twin Peaks" w roli przystojnej agentki FBI Denise Bryson, która wcześniej była agentem Dennisem Brysonem. Dziś mało kto już o tym pamięta, nie ma też pewności, czy aktor powtórzy swoją rolę w nowych odcinkach "Miasteczka Twin Peaks", zapowiadanych na przyszły rok. Sam Duchovny obiecywał, że dla Davida Lyncha może nawet ogolić nogi. Na razie jednak nie wiadomo, czy do tego dojdzie, bo Lynch nie zdradza żadnych spoilerów, nawet tych dotyczących obsady. "Twin Peaks", fot. ABC "Pamiętnik Czerwonego Pantofelka" Serial erotyczny telewizji Showtime, w którym niejaki Jake Winters - facet, który nie mógł przeboleć straty narzeczonej - przedstawiał widzom historie kolejnych kobiet, angażujących się w śmiałe przygody seksualne. David Duchovny dostał tę rolę w roku 1992, zanim jeszcze zdążył zostać słynnym agentem FBI. "Pamiętnik Czerwonego Pantofelka", fot. Showtime "Seks w wielkim mieście" Przez "Seks w wielkim mieście" przewinęło się wielu znanych aktorów, którzy grali role przelotnych miłostek czy też po prostu seksualnych przygód głównych bohaterek. David Duchovny pojawił się w 2003 roku w odcinku "Boy, Interrupted" w roli Jeremy'ego, dawnego chłopaka Carrie z liceum, z którym spotkała się po latach. Niestety, okazało się, że nie da się powrócić do tego, co było, zwłaszcza że Jeremy okazał się skrywać pewną tajemnicę. "Seks w wielkim mieście", fot. HBO "Californication" Musiało minąć pięć lat od zakończenia "Z Archiwum X", by dawny agent Mulder znów się odnalazł na małym ekranie. W 2007 roku wrócił do telewizji Showtime, by zagrać Hanka Moody'ego, pisarza z Nowego Jorku, który po przeprowadzce do Los Angeles stracił miłość swojego życia i pogrążył się w przygodnym seksie, alkoholu, narkotykach i wszelkiego rodzaju dekadencji. Rola niegrzecznego chłopca, który w duszy cały czas pozostał romantykiem, przyniosła aktorowi Złoty Glob i sprawiła, że znów trafił do telewizyjnej pierwszej ligi. "Californication", fot. Showtime "Aquarius" "Californication" zakończyło się w 2014 roku i niestety kolejny wybór Duchovny'ego okazał się nie najlepszy. "Aquarius" to serial NBC, opowiadający o polowaniu na Charlesa Mansona i jego ludzi. Serial w najlepszym razie średni, w którym tylko Duchovny wyróżnia się na plus w roli detektywa Sama Hodiaka. NBC zamówiło drugi sezon, który będzie miał premierę w tym roku, ale na tym prawdopodobnie się skończy. "Aquarius", fot. NBC GILLIAN ANDERSON "Class of '96" David Duchovny, zanim dostał rolę Muldera, grał w "Miasteczku Twin Peaks" i serialu erotycznym telewizji Showtime, zaś młodsza od niego o osiem lat Gillian Anderson nie pojawiła tak właściwie nigdzie. No, prawie nigdzie. Jej telewizyjny debiut miał miejsce w 1993 roku, tuż przed "Z Archiwum X", kiedy to zagrała gościnną rólkę w jednym z odcinków "Class of '96". Nie słyszeliście o takim serialu? I nic dziwnego, przetrwał on tylko kilka miesięcy na antenie FOX-a. A opowiadał o studentach pierwszego roku, zmagających się z nowymi wyzwaniami życiowymi, a także problemami społecznymi, jak rasizm czy seksizm. "Class of '96", fot. FOX "The Fall" Pięć lat po zakończeniu "Z Archiwum X" David Duchovny grał już w "Californication", zaś jego dawna koleżanka z pracy nie mogła się odnaleźć na małym ekranie przez dekadę. Przełom nastąpił w 2013 roku, kiedy zaczęła się jej przygoda z "Hannibalem", a także brytyjską telewizją. W "The Fall" wciela się w detektyw Stellę Gibson, która jest jedną z najciekawszych, najinteligentniejszych postaci kobiecych, jakie pojawiły się w ostatnich latach w telewizji. Gillian, która jest teraz blondynką, a nie rudzielcem jak Scully, mówi w serialu z brytyjskim akcentem, wygląda piękniej niż kiedykolwiek i emanuje dobrze znaną fanom "Z Archiwum X" mieszanką chłodu i seksapilu. "The Fall", fot. BBC "Hannibal" W "Hannibalu" - niestety już skasowanym - dawna agentka Scully grała psychiatrę głównego bohatera, dr Bedelię Du Maurier. To intrygująca, skomplikowana bohaterka, uwikłana przez trzy sezony w coraz bardziej niebezpieczne gry, w miarę jak dowiadywała się coraz więcej i więcej o swoim jedynym pacjencie. Co ciekawe, postać została stworzona specjalnie na potrzeby serialu. W książkach Thomasa Harrisa w ogóle jej nie ma. "Hannibal", fot. NBC "Stan kryzysowy" Słabiutki, schematyczny serial telewizji NBC, który rozpoczynał się od porwania dzieci wpływowych osób z Waszyngtonu. "Stan kryzysowy" przetrwał zaledwie kilkanaście odcinków i prawdopodobnie mało kto wie, jak się skończył, ponieważ publika topniała z odcinka na odcinek. Trudno właściwie powiedzieć, co takiego robiła w nim Gillian Anderson, ale na pewno w roli wpływowej prezes firmy z branży IT - której córka była wśród porwanych dzieciaków - prezentowała się świetnie. Problem w tym, że nie miała za bardzo czego grać. "Stan kryzysowy", fot. NBC "War and Peace" W styczniu 2016 roku na antenie BBC zadebiutowała nowa serialowa adaptacja "Wojny i pokoju" Lwa Tołstoja. W znakomitej obsadzie - gra tu Lily James - znalazło się miejsce dla Gillian Anderson, którą możemy podziwiać w roli rosyjskiej arystokratki Anny Pawłownej Scherer, damy dworu carowej Marii Fiodorowny. Nie jest to duża rola, a i sam serial można określić raczej mianem poprawnego niż wybitnego czy ekscytującego. Ale przynajmniej fani agentki Scully mogą ją podziwiać w przepięknych sukniach i futrzanych czapach. Kostiumy w serialach BBC są na najwyższym poziomie i miniserial "War and Peace" nie jest tu wyjątkiem. "War and Peace", fot. BBC

The X-Files stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny discuss the show at New York Comic Con, and give their blessing to true fan love. After four days of festivities celebrating anime, television, film and comics, New York Comic Con drew to a close with its final presentation on the Main Stage: Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny talking all

“X-Files” reunion: Gillian Anderson presenta David Duchovny a Stella, il suo cane Mulder e Scully si sono fatti un selfie. E come sempre succede con loro, i fan sono impazziti, consapevoli che per vederli come la coppia famosa di agenti FBI rimane solo Instagram Si dirà, ma che senso ha informare su Gillian Anderson e David Duchovny che si sono fatti una foto su Instagram. Due attori che, nonostante un bel po’ di progetti seguiti alla serie – X-Files – che li ha resi celeberrimi, saranno per sempre collegati a quel prodotto che li ha fatti esplodere. E per cui molta gente reclama nuove avventura. Be’, esattamente per questo motivo, cioè che poiché di nuove avventure dell’agente Dana Scully e Fox Mulder manco l’ombra (Anderson ha detto più volte «mai più Dana»), ci si accontenta di una foto. Postata ieri sull’Instagram di Gillian, la foto (il selfie, insomma) ritrai i due colleghi e amici di lunga data assieme a un terzo incomodo, il cane di Gillian, Stella. Che ha avuto l’onore di conoscere il buon David («Stella ha conosciuto un nuovo amico oggi»). La coppia è una delle più famose e amate della tv – in parte anche del cinema, X-Files è finito sul grande schermo per due volte – e guardandoli non si fa fatica a pensare a due nuovi Julie Andrews e Christopher Plummer. Volenterosi e dolci di farsi foto e andare a reunion pure in là con gli anni; probabilmente quando si sarò risolto il mistero degli ufo, uno dei tanti della serie. X-Files: Dana e Scully oggi Nove anni sul set, 1993-2002, due film (1998 e 2008) e altre due serie: la prima uscita a 14 anni dalla chiusura, nel 2016, l’ultima nel 2018. Poi stop. E la confessione che XF li aveva in più di un’occasione fatti Divise, le carriere dei due attori sono state altalenanti. All’inizio è sembrato David quello in grado di staccarsi in modo eclatante dal ruolo di Fox, il personaggio affascinante e derelitto di Californication, serie andata in onda su Showtime per sette anni, è l’opposto di Mulder; meno quello di Aquarius, un agente di polizia. Ma l’animo dell’attore non è mai stato uno dei più tranquilli. Ricoverato per sex addiction nel 2008, è famoso anche per aver alzato il gomito: da cui l’ottimo consiglio «qual è l’antidepressivo perfetto? Lo champagne», almeno così consigliava una volta. Ora le sue passioni sono la musica, e la scrittura, che alterna ai tour. Siccome causa pandemia niente concerti, l’ultima fatica uscita a febbraio in libreria è il romanzo Truly like lighting. Gillian e David in “X-Files – Il film”, film diretto da Chris Carter nel 1998. (Ansa) A fine di X-Files e di due matrimoni Gillian invece se ne è tornata in Inghilterra, essendo naturalizzata britannica. Lì ha lavorato per il cinema e per la tv, con molti titoli prodotti dalla BBC. Riesce a tornare tra le serie che contano con The Fall – Caccia al serial killer, andata in onda dal 2013 al 2016. Con Scully nelle ultime due stagione di XF. E soprattutto con il ruolo della sessuologa mamma del protagonista di Sex education, su Netflix, un personaggio che la fa amare da un pubblico giovane e che mette in luce il suo fascino con un taglio di capelli nuovo e un guardaroba fresco e colorato. Ricevi news e aggiornamenti sulle ultime tendenze beauty direttamente nella tua posta Infine gli applausi per la Margaret Thatcher di The Crown 4, per il quale ha vinto un Golden Globe. In pieno spolvero, l’ultima notizia di Gilliam a parte il selfie con David è la scrittura nel cast di The First Lady, serie antologica sulle mogli dei presidenti. Un’altra sfida con un personaggio storico-politico, stavolta nei panni di Eleanor Roosevelt. iO Donna ©RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA XVsphI.

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