'X-Files: I Want to Believe': Q&A with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, July 28, 2008
HW: Can you talk about getting back into these characters after a six year period?
DD: The first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn't really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film.
GA: I think I must've gone through 10 other characters in the process of trying to get to her when I had assumed that I would be able to show up on the first day and it would just be there. It wasn't until I think day three when we got to work together, not just necessarily in a familiar environment which it really wasn't, but in the environment of each other and the relationship and that it kind of felt natural and familiar and I felt like I'd landed this time.