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Duchovny files his TV past
By ian caddell
Publish Date: 24-Aug-2006

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NEW YORK—One wonders if an agent calling up an actor has ever said,
“The good news is that you have a job on a TV series and the network
expects it to run for years. The bad news is that after it’s over you
will probably never work again.” David Duchovny is still working, but
in a hotel room in New York he admits that at the end of The X-Files in
2002 he began to think about making funny movies so he could move as
far as possible from his character in that series, Fox Mulder.

“I wanted to do comedies only because comedy seemed to be antithetical
to The X-Files. First I thought, ‘I will make people forget that,’ but
then I thought, ‘How could they forget that? It was a decade. You don’t
forget a decade.’ I can’t think of anything bigger in terms of
television. People talk about Star Trek, but it was only on for three
years and then created as nostalgia on reruns. At some point I realized
that it is what it is, and it is probably unlikely that I will ever do
anything as big as that, because I don’t think that there can be
anything as culturally pervasive as the show or that character.
Certainly not a movie character, because this was part of the culture.
There is nothing that I can think of that would approach that kind of
magnitude. So at some point I started choosing things because I liked
them or they challenged me.”

Duchovny’s latest choice, Trust the Man, is a romantic comedy about two
couples who are struggling through their relationships. (It opens in
Vancouver on Friday [September 1].) He plays a director of commercials
who is taking time off to be with his children. Julianne Moore is his
actor wife, Billy Crudup plays her brother and his best friend, and
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Crudup’s girlfriend. The movie is directed by
Bart Freund?lich, who happens to be married to Moore. Crudup and
Duchovny are his best friends. Duchovny says that although it sounds
like a great way to make a movie, having pals on a set can have its
drawbacks.

“I had a lot of friends on this set, but one thing about doing The
X-Files for so many years is that they become friends. So I guess I was
used to that experience as well. When you do a movie with your friends,
you don’t want to disappoint them, because disappointing them has
repercussions. If you are working with people you don’t know that well
and it doesn’t work out, you can think ‘Well, maybe I won’t see them so
often and when I do I will say, “I am sorry that I fucked up your
movie.”?’ But you can’t do that with friends. On the one hand, you
think it would be much more casual and relaxed, but on the other hand,
you are constantly thinking, ‘I don’t want to screw up this movie.’?”
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