July 6, 2010

“We have a relationship that is completely odd and fabricated. We’ve been thrown together, two people who don’t know each other, and we’ve been forced to spend more time together than married people do. So you can’t describe our relationship as ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’” DD, LA Times, 1997.

“We have a relationship that is completely odd and fabricated. We’ve been thrown together, two people who don’t know each other, and we’ve been forced to spend more time together than married people do. So you can’t describe our relationship as ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’”

DD, LA Times, 1997.

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July 14, 2010

INTERVIEWER: Would doing romantic scenes with David Duchovny be a problem? There have been numerous reports that you two don’t like each other very much, and David never gives the standard “Oh, she’s just great” line when discussing you.GILLIAN: I would say the perception that there’s animosity between us is incorrect. It’s much more complex than that. It’s a complicated relationship. We work very well together. Sometimes we have a lot of fun in the process, make jokes and pull pranks. Sometimes it’s just showing up for work. But we don’t socialize. That’s basically it. E! Online, 1998

INTERVIEWER: Would doing romantic scenes with David Duchovny be a problem? There have been numerous reports that you two don’t like each other very much, and David never gives the standard “Oh, she’s just great” line when discussing you.

GILLIAN: I would say the perception that there’s animosity between us is incorrect. It’s much more complex than that. It’s a complicated relationship. We work very well together. Sometimes we have a lot of fun in the process, make jokes and pull pranks. Sometimes it’s just showing up for work. But we don’t socialize. That’s basically it.

E! Online, 1998

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July 17, 2010

INTERVIEWER: What’s your take on his relationship with Gillian Anderson?TEA LEONI: “It’s complicated. It rivals some sibling relationships I’ve seen. And some married couples I’ve seen.” Movieline Magazine, 2000

INTERVIEWER: What’s your take on his relationship with Gillian Anderson?
TEA LEONI: “It’s complicated. It rivals some sibling relationships I’ve seen. And some married couples I’ve seen.”

Movieline Magazine, 2000

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August 11, 2010

ANDERSON: How do you perceive our relationship?DUCHOVNY: It’s like the roots of a tree. It’s very twisted, but it’s growing. You know the tree is alive, and it works in it’s own treelike ways, yet you couldn’t untangle it. You could, but you’d need the help of a gifted professional. USA Today, March 2000

ANDERSON: How do you perceive our relationship?
DUCHOVNY: It’s like the roots of a tree. It’s very twisted, but it’s growing. You know the tree is alive, and it works in it’s own treelike ways, yet you couldn’t untangle it. You could, but you’d need the help of a gifted professional.

USA Today, March 2000

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August 14, 2010

“I think [our relationship] is one of those ones that’s so kind of longstanding and so many things are unspoken. It’s almost familial in that way. I’m a firm believer that you recreate your family situations at work. She’s a combination of a few people. I won’t say who. But it’s complicated.”David, ‘USA Today,’ March 2000

“I think [our relationship] is one of those ones that’s so kind of longstanding and so many things are unspoken. It’s almost familial in that way. I’m a firm believer that you recreate your family situations at work. She’s a combination of a few people. I won’t say who. But it’s complicated.”

David, ‘USA Today,’ March 2000

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August 15, 2010

Charlie Rose: Well, are you two close?
David Duchovny: Not personally. We’re close professionally, as can be.
CR: There’s respect and admiration as colleagues would have …
DD: She’s the other one holding the other side of the rope. I mean, I rely on her, I trust her, and she does me. We don’t …
CR: Why haven’t you bonded?
DD: Well, we have bonded in that way. […]

But it’s funny cause Téa and I, my wife, just had a little party in our new house, and it’s my first party that I’ve ever given really in my life, and Gillian came. I invited Gillian and she came. And when she came, I said, you know, this is really screwed up because I can’t, any longer, say that we don’t socialize.

‘Charlie Rose,’ summer 1998

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October 3, 2010

“We have a very complicated relationship that I don’t think can be picked up by anyone who visits the set or imagines the atmosphere on the set,” says Anderson. “It’s one that has developed changed and shifted and grown over five years, but it’s certainly not one of discord or animosity or anything. I don’t even know how to describe it. There’s a lot of care there, I think.” Gillian Anderson, 1998

“We have a very complicated relationship that I don’t think can be picked up by anyone who visits the set or imagines the atmosphere on the set,” says Anderson. “It’s one that has developed changed and shifted and grown over five years, but it’s certainly not one of discord or animosity or anything. I don’t even know how to describe it. There’s a lot of care there, I think.”

Gillian Anderson, 1998

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October 16, 2010

“A lot of things shifted over the last couple of years,” agrees Gillian Anderson, his X-Files costar. “He’s become gentler.” The actress hints that their own complicated relationship - one the media have tended to promote as tortured - has eased up: “Not many people are willing to see the middle ground,” says Anderson. “They either want to think we’re madly in love or hating each other. But it’s neither of those things. It’s magical and difficult, and wondrous and painful, and frustrating and joyous, as any intense, intimate relationship is.” Entertainment Weekly, April 2000

“A lot of things shifted over the last couple of years,” agrees Gillian Anderson, his X-Files costar. “He’s become gentler.”

The actress hints that their own complicated relationship - one the media have tended to promote as tortured - has eased up: “Not many people are willing to see the middle ground,” says Anderson. “They either want to think we’re madly in love or hating each other. But it’s neither of those things. It’s magical and difficult, and wondrous and painful, and frustrating and joyous, as any intense, intimate relationship is.”

Entertainment Weekly, April 2000

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November 2, 2010

Later, I watch Duchovny and Anderson together, half joking, half ignoring each other. “We have a very complicated relationship that I don’t think can be picked up by anybody who visits the set or imagines the atmosphere on the set,” says Anderson. “It’s one that has developed and changed and shifted and grown over five years, but it’s certainly not one of discord or animosity or anything. I don’t even know how to describe it. There’s a lot of care there, I think.” Occasionally, she says, a summit meeting has to be called by her: “When it seems like there’s some kind of bubbling resentment underneath, and it no longer becomes comfortable to work together. But that hasn’t happened many times. Three or four times.” US Magazine, March 1998

Later, I watch Duchovny and Anderson together, half joking, half ignoring each other.

“We have a very complicated relationship that I don’t think can be picked up by anybody who visits the set or imagines the atmosphere on the set,” says Anderson. “It’s one that has developed and changed and shifted and grown over five years, but it’s certainly not one of discord or animosity or anything. I don’t even know how to describe it. There’s a lot of care there, I think.”

Occasionally, she says, a summit meeting has to be called by her: “When it seems like there’s some kind of bubbling resentment underneath, and it no longer becomes comfortable to work together. But that hasn’t happened many times. Three or four times.”

US Magazine, March 1998

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November 15, 2010

“I think [our relationship] is one of those ones that’s so kind of longstanding and so many things are unspoken. It’s almost familial in that way. I’m a firm believer that you recreate your family situations at work. She’s a combination of a few people. I won’t say who. But it’s complicated.”DD, USA Today, March 2000

“I think [our relationship] is one of those ones that’s so kind of longstanding and so many things are unspoken. It’s almost familial in that way. I’m a firm believer that you recreate your family situations at work. She’s a combination of a few people. I won’t say who. But it’s complicated.”

DD, USA Today, March 2000

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January 19, 2011

“It’s a very complicated relationship. We just get enough of each other right now. “But the bottom line is she’s the only one who knows what it’s been like for me, and I’m the only one who knows what it’s been like for her. I imagine we’ll be friends when the show’s over.” DD, TV Guide, 1996

“It’s a very complicated relationship. We just get enough of each other right now.

“But the bottom line is she’s the only one who knows what it’s been like for me, and I’m the only one who knows what it’s been like for her. I imagine we’ll be friends when the show’s over.”

DD, TV Guide, 1996

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January 23, 2011

“It’s a long time, it’s a long of work, you’re in this crucible, it becomes this juggernaut… and we become like, hugely famous people, and we all change a little bit, go a little crazy, think that we’re special, and then we come back down to earth and we know that we’re not… “And it’s just all these things that happen. We see the worst of each other. Fame brings out the worst in people, as does success, in a weird way. Until it doesn’t, until you learn how to deal with it, until you learn what it’s all about. And I think now we do. And now that we all do, we just really appreciate one another for having gone through that experience. And not only that, but I appreciate her talent much more than I ever did.” - DD, Popcorn with Peter Travers, 2008

“It’s a long time, it’s a long of work, you’re in this crucible, it becomes this juggernaut… and we become like, hugely famous people, and we all change a little bit, go a little crazy, think that we’re special, and then we come back down to earth and we know that we’re not…

“And it’s just all these things that happen. We see the worst of each other. Fame brings out the worst in people, as does success, in a weird way. Until it doesn’t, until you learn how to deal with it, until you learn what it’s all about. And I think now we do. And now that we all do, we just really appreciate one another for having gone through that experience. And not only that, but I appreciate her talent much more than I ever did.”

- DD, Popcorn with Peter Travers, 2008

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January 24, 2011

How was it working with the cast members? “I mean, David - the guy that I was with most of the time - and I have had a very long, complicated relationship. But we’ve grown very fond of each other, in our dotage, and um, he’s a lovely man. Everybody’s lovely.”GA, Sarajevo Film Fest, August 2009

How was it working with the cast members?

“I mean, David - the guy that I was with most of the time - and I have had a very long, complicated relationship. But we’ve grown very fond of each other, in our dotage, and um, he’s a lovely man. Everybody’s lovely.”

GA, Sarajevo Film Fest, August 2009

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March 18, 2011

Anderson: Here’s one for you. How do you perceive our relationship? Duchovny: It’s like the roots of a tree. It’s very twisted, but it’s growing. You know the tree is alive, and it works in it’s own treelike ways, yet you couldn’t untangle it. You could, but you’d need the help of a gifted professional. USA Today, March 2000 Oh my GOSH I have been lazy. I’m sorry, you guys.

Anderson: Here’s one for you. How do you perceive our relationship?

Duchovny: It’s like the roots of a tree. It’s very twisted, but it’s growing. You know the tree is alive, and it works in it’s own treelike ways, yet you couldn’t untangle it. You could, but you’d need the help of a gifted professional.

USA Today, March 2000

Oh my GOSH I have been lazy. I’m sorry, you guys.

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March 31, 2011

“It’s like being married to somebody, but it’s like being married when Sun Myung Moon said, ‘You go with that one.’ So some days it’s great and some days it’s not. It’s a working relationship that is extremely close and has all the joys and difficulties of that.”David Duchovny, Boston Globe, June 1998

“It’s like being married to somebody, but it’s like being married when Sun Myung Moon said, ‘You go with that one.’ So some days it’s great and some days it’s not. It’s a working relationship that is extremely close and has all the joys and difficulties of that.”

David Duchovny, Boston Globe, June 1998

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