X-Files Reunion Emotional

The producers of the upcoming X-Files sequel told SCI FI Wire that they got
emotional when stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson showed up for an
informal "table read" of the script, reuniting for the first time since the hit
Fox series went off the air in 2002."A month before we started filming, maybe
six weeks, David and Gillian came in and read the script at [director] Chris
[Carter's] kitchen table, and it was emotional to hear them say those words,"
writer/producer Frank Spotnitz said in a group interview at WonderCon in San
Francisco over the weekend."And then a week later, we had camera tests at Chris'
house, and [Anderson's] hair was red again, and David had ... got his hair cut
like Mulder again, and it was like, 'Oh, my.' It was like bringing back the
dead, in a way, or like finding somebody who'd gone missing for six years. So,
to me, it feels very powerful."Carter, who created the show and co-wrote the
sequel, had a similar reaction. "I actually was moved,"
Carter said between yawns (he flew directly to WonderCon on Saturday after
wrapping an all-night shoot at 6 o'clock that morning in Vancouver,
Canada)."It's funny, because ... we've been through so much together, and to ...
come back [from] what I would call a really good vacation away from it was a
really nice thing," Carter added. "And it allows us to start fresh. ... When
you're doing the TV series, you are doing it--for me it was 11 and a half months
a year. You take two weeks off, and then you go right back at it. It was nice to
take that breather and come back at this fresh and rejuvenated."Despite a
six-year hiatus, both Spotnitz and Carter--who were both executive producers of
the long-running TV series--said they had no problem writing the characters of
FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully again."I know it was sort of startling to
me how deep my connection still was to the characters after all of this time and
how much it mattered to me what's become of them and
what they think and what they would do," Spotnitz said. "It felt vital to me,
and it felt very interesting, and it was ... really fun. It was really very
enjoyable, working on the story and reconvening with them again."


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