David Duchovny remembers calling out character inconsistencies on ‘X-Files’

David Duchovny has been putting on a costume for his emblematic FBI agent, Fox Mulder for seven years, but he has not forgotten his biggest pets during his stay on the beloved Fox series.

During a recent episode of Duchovny Better Podcast, a series that highlights the way in which failures shape the personal and professional trajectory of a person, the host reminded the guest Emily Deschanel how he sometimes had to correct episodic directors on the inconsistencies of characters.

“It was a bit of a black beast when I was doing X-Files – Not as long as I have made – but, as with BoneIt’s episodic, but each episode is a fairly high drama. This can be life and death, “said Duchovny.

“Sometimes the directors came and they knew they had an excellent script and [since] It was on the X-FilesIt could happen, do you know? Like, “Saint S *** is an excellent script” and they really wanted to kill him. These guys were dangerous, “joked the actor.” So often, they said: “We have never seen Mulder like that before”, and I would say: “Yes, like 10 other times, we have already seen Mulder like that.” “”

Duchovny recalled a particular body while he was pulling in the episode of the season a “fire”, in which Mulder reveals a deeply anchored fear of the fire resulting from an infantile trauma.

“I remember that as in the middle of the episode, I had this thought. I think I went to [director] Chris Carter – Who wrote this episode, I think – and I said: “Didn’t Mulder and Scully watch a building burned in the pilot? I think Moulder was pretty cool with that, you know, it didn’t bother him ”, Duchovny told a Deschanel laughing.

“It’s like this kind of thing, you know where you are going, you are somehow the conservative of the character and sometimes you have to go:” I can’t do that “” California Miseted by Star.

Being a stickler for consistency obviously worked at the end; During the 11 seasons of the science fiction drama, Cast and Crew took distinctions, notably Duchovny and Costar Gillian Anderson at the Sag Awards, where Anderson won two of these heavy trophies and both raked several nominations. It was in place for the price five times more, while Duchovny was nominated five times in total. As a distribution – with William B. Davis, Chris Owens, James Pickens Jr., Mitch Pileggi and Steven Williams – they were nominated three times for an exceptional performance by a set in a dramatic series.

Duchovny and Anderson played in the Fox series from 1993 to 2002, as well as in two films. The two resumed their roles as Agents Mulder and Dana Scully in the covers of the series of years later, including a tenth season in 2016 and an 11th in 2018.

A precious classic, the series has made a recent newspapers thanks to the next restart of Ryan Coogler.

THE Sinners Director would have developed a X-Files The series in 2023, when the original creator Chris Carter revealed that a restart of the filmmaker was at his beginnings. In the wake of the success of his vampire thriller led by Michael B. Jordan, Coogler spoke of his plans for the X-Files Restart now that he can focus on a new project.

“I have been excited about this for a long time, and I am excited to come back. Some of these episodes, if we do our job properly, will be really frightening,” said coogle The last podcast on the left in May. “We will try to do something really great, my brother, and be really something for the real X-Files Fans, and maybe find new ones. “”

Coogler also revealed that he had spoken to Anderson of the restart, saying: “She is incredible and the fingers are crossed there.”

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Duchovny only restarted the restart, saying to Screen Rant last year: “I don’t really have reflection on this subject … I wish them good luck.”

Anderson, on the other hand, softened to the idea of returning to the franchise. While promoting his new film The Salt Chemin On itv1 This morning In May, Anderson said: “At one point, if the phone rings and it’s good and it’s like the right time, perhaps.”

Look at Duchovny and Deschanel to chat on the Better Podcast above.