David Duchovny would be prepared to make a new X-Files film
 
Jamie Portman
CanWest News Service

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

HOLLYWOOD - David Duchovny knows now that he will always be the guy
from X-Files. It was a truth which he long avoided confronting,
believing that he could eventually escape the image of that show and of
Fox Mulder, the haunted investigator he portrayed for a decade.

He thought it would be possible to break new ground and move on from a
show which had captured the imaginations of millions of viewers.

Now, he's more realistic; in fact he's even prepared to do another
X-Files movie.

He admits now that after the series ended, he thought he could erase
those earlier associations by breaking new ground. He was wrong.

"I think at first, I might have wanted to make that attempt if for no
other reason that I always thought I could thrive in comedy, and I
hadn't done that,'' he says now.

So he made movies like Evolution, Connie And Carla and Zoolander. He
appeared in episodes of Sex And The City. But no matter what he does,
he is still the X-Files guy, and now he's resigned to it. That
ground-breaking show is simply too pervasive in its impact on the
culture for him to break free.

"At some point I realized that it is what it is, and that it's probably
unlikely that I can do anything. I don't think there can be something
as culturally pervasive as that character for me again certainly not a
movie character because X-Files was a part of our culture for years,
for a decade.''

Sure, he may dream of finding a new project with a similar impact on
the collective consciousness "but I don't see that happening.

"I mean what is there? There is really nothing I can think of that
would approach that kind of magnitude. It's very unlikely that will
happen as a matter of fact, I don't think I want it to happen. So at
some point, I just started choosing things because I liked them or
thought they would challenge me.''

That's why he signed up for the recent Trust The Man to play a husband
who's so dissatisfied with his marriage to Julianne Moore that he goes
astray.

Still, Duchovny is open to the idea of a second X-Files film.

"I'm willing to do a second movie. Gillian Anderson is willing. Chris
Carter (creator of the series) wants to. It's just a matter of some
issues with Fox that need to be worked out.''

Meanwhile, the series has a continuing life on DVD. The X-Files
phenomenon still astonishes Duchovny who remembers the early days of
uncertainty. He says nobody connected with the project had any idea
that the series would prove so popular.

The X-Files was one of the first television shows to be released on DVD
and it has widened its audience as a result. Duchovny just hopes that
The House Of D, the low-budget film he directed last year, with Robin
Williams starring, will also find an audience on DVD.

"Every aspect of making that film I loved,'' he says. The problem is
that nobody saw it.

"You're always disappointed when things aren't embraced completely and
nothing ever is,'' he says, trying to be philosophical. ``But the thing
I know is that the great thing and the horrible thing about the
business right now is that it's all abut DVD. It's hard to get a
theatrical release now, especially for a small film, but the great
thing is that there is now a DVD of that film that will sit on the
shelf as long as it needs to until it finds it's audience. That might
be never, but it does have a chance.''

jportman@...

© CanWest News Service 2006

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