'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
We might know the plot of the new movie X-Files: I Want to Believe, but if we told you we'd have to kill you. Instead, we'll leave the explaining to the pros...aka David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson who starred in the hit sci-fi television show as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for nine seasons. Find out what they had to say about taking their characters to the big screen for the new thriller opening July 25, 2008.
Hollywood.com: What is the secret to your onscreen chemistry?
Gillian Anderson: We've actually been having a 15 year affair [laughs].
David Duchovny: [Playfully points at Gillian’s baby bump]. I don't know why in the beginning, maybe just luck in the beginning. But after this long we actually do have a history and so when I look over at Gillian or I'm Mulder looking over at Scully, there's a lot of shit that I can call on. We have a lot between us and so you don't really have to make it up. I think that just as people, now 15 years later, we have just shared so much regardless of how much we speak to one another. I expect to see Gillian even if I haven't seen her for a year.
GA: Whatever it is that's between us was there from the second that we started working together and it's not quantifiable. I think it's something that is unique and yes, they got lucky, but it was something that Chris [Carter] had seen which is why he fought so hard, specifically, and this is something that's been written about a lot, to cast me over someone else. He saw something between the two of us that was unique.
DD: I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.