September 11, 2011
“I don’t have many friends in Canada, apart from a dog that I hang around with, so my spare time is spent reading a lot — and getting depressed.”
DD, New Weekly, October 1995
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September 22, 2011
This kind of day is normal on The X-Files. Each episode of the series is shot in eight days, with a second unit doing an additional five days’ work. It’s a punishing schedule that continues, relentlessly, for nine-and-a-half months a year. Today, Gillian was picked up at her home at 7am. Since contracts stipulate a 12-hour break before shooting can resume, the next day they’ll start at l pm, and the next day at 5pm, finishing well into the night. This and fact that it rains constantly in Vancouver explains the series’ dark, windswept look: a trademark born more from necessity than invention.
“We try and film a feature in the time it takes to film a TV show,” says Gillian as we talk between takes. “And we do it, but it kills us in the process.”
Face Magazine, May 1997
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October 3, 2011
“Well, you know, I’m not supposed to do this. Chris Carter has sworn me to secrecy, but I will say, right here, right now, I’m gonna break the story. We’re gonna do the first show live. And what we’re gonna do — it’s never been done before — if you’re acquainted with the show, it usually starts with what we call a teaser, which is where a crime happens or a body is found or something mysterious happens. Five or six minutes, a dead body is found, Mulder shows up, Scully shows up.
“We’re going to do that live and then we’re going to get on a bus to the next location, but we’re going to film that. So it’s gonna be like 45 minutes of myself and Gillian and the crew driving through Vancouver in the rain. And I think you know I can tell it’s gonna be huge.”
DD on Conan O’Brien, Oct 1997
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January 27, 2012
The very polite Canadians who recognize her from the show, which airs there, tend to keep their distance, Anderson says. But even discreet recognition can be unnerving to a fledgling TV star.
“There is something vulnerable about being in the public eye, to a certain degree,” she says. “Having that feeling, hearing ‘Scully’ whispered as you pass people. It reminds you constantly that you’re not in your private little world.”AP, Feb 1994
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January 28, 2012
I noticed you tagged a post with "rain scandal". Can you tell me what that is? Thanks!Anonymous
Sure! Actually, after I posted it, I changed it to “rain fiasco.” (I just started tagging it, so there might be other relevant posts back in the archive…)
Basically it’s when David went on Conan O’Brien and made a joke about how much it rains in Vancouver. Then the local press made a fuss about it, and some random guy “banned” DD from a nightclub he’d never been to, and lots of Vancouverites got the idea that DD was this whiney American actor who came to their city but couldn’t handle the weather. This was also around the time when David was pushing to move the show to LA (which subsequently happened). So ever since then, there’s been a dark cloud (haaaa) hanging over the subject of David, Vancouver, and/or rain. It still comes up in press a lot.
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January 30, 2012
“I had a very good feeling that this show would be successful. But I don’t think it’s really even hit me yet. Once in a while I’ll be driving down the street in Canada and think, ‘I’m in Canada. How did I get here?’”
GA, AP, Feb 1994
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February 18, 2012
“They said we will just shoot the pilot there and then move to LA. After the show was picked up they told me we will do at least the first year in Vancouver because it has the right look and it will be cheaper. We can make better shows and get better production value for the dollar up there. So we did the first year. Then they said we are going into syndication, which means working continuously for three years, after which we get to go where we want. It was tough and in the middle of the third year, my girlfriend and I did split up. After three years, they were saying that we will have five great years on television then we are all going to quit. So could I handle two more years in Vancouver? I didn’t have a girlfriend anymore so I had no reason to go to LA. So I said I can handle it because Vancouver is really nice.
“Going into the fifth year, I assumed we would shoot the sixth year in LA, and it looked like it was the first time they heard about it. What happened next was that the press was saying that David Duchovny, infantile, impetuous, whimsical, weight-throwing-around star imperiously makes production move to Los Angeles just because he wants to sit in a jacuzzi with his wife in Malibu. That’s the way things happened. Good story, no? It reads like a bad fairy tale. Why they kept it a secret is what I want to know.”
DD, The Philippine Star Newspaper, August 1998
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March 28, 2012
“I know when she is very tired and irritable, and she knows the same about me. We have a great respect for the fine line the other is walking all the time.”
They are walking that fine line now, near midnight, at a creepy downtown high-rise construction site. Chilly and damp, Duchovny and Anderson are exhausted but show virtually no signs of the usual Hollywood afflictions: no need for hand-holding by assistants, no entourage, no preening between takes, no temper tantrums. They don’t even seem to understand that they are, in fact, stars.
TV Guide, March 1995
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