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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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there is no relationship

“There is no relationship because we work so much together. I expect her to show up for work and to know her lines and she expects the same of me. That may sound like not a lot, but that is actually a lot.

“At first, they said we were in love. It has been five years since so the tabloids are now saying that we are fighting. I imagine that next we will be in love again. It’s pitiful. There isn’t much to write about aside from the movie coming up. Everything has been said about my relationship with Gillian.

“All I can tell you is I am glad she comes to work every morning prepared and professional. But when the whistle blows, I hand in my time card and I do not want to see her or Chris Carter or Rob Bowman or anybody from X-Files. I just want to go home and forget about it. I don’t mean any malice. I’m sure she’ll say the same thing.”

DD, 1998

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a little off

“David and I are both a little off. We’re both difficult to get along with. We spend so much time on the set together that we don’t have anything left to say to each other outside of work. David and I understand each other enough to know that we have to keep our distance. You couldn’t ask for much more from two personalities as different as ours.

“We don’t socialize, we never have. A long time ago we developed a work ethic whereby we give all our energy to our characters. When the take is finished, we walk in opposite directions.

“David helped me a lot at the beginning of the series when I wasn’t that experienced, and I will always be grateful to him for that. Would it have been nice if we’d been closer off the set? Maybe. Does either of us worry about why we aren’t friends, or why we don’t get along on a personal level? No. There’s nothing more to be said on the matter.”

GA, 1998

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“If I’m not filming, I sit in my trailer on the lot. I haven’t bothered to make it feel like home. I come in every morning and think maybe I should, but I never do. Blue sits in her basket and makes it feel right.”
DD, “Radio Times,” 1995

“If I’m not filming, I sit in my trailer on the lot. I haven’t bothered to make it feel like home. I come in every morning and think maybe I should, but I never do. Blue sits in her basket and makes it feel right.”

DD, “Radio Times,” 1995

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July 8, 2010

“I was out with my partner last night, quite late, grabbing a bite to eat, and there was a table full of giggly 20-something girls, drinking and talking non-stop, you know just out having fun. Not that was very much part of my life even before we started the series, but when I think to myself, ‘where was I then?’ or ‘how did I end up skipping that period?’
“I forget that I ended up skipping that period because I was working those years, instead of being out with girlfriends, or… out in the social scene and stuff. I was very myopic, and we were so often in Vancouver, and there just wasn’t room for it, there wasn’t enough time. It was… I don’t… I don’t regret it in any way, shape, or form. But I think I sometimes forget that I was AWOL almost for a decade.”
GA, Washington Post, 2008

“I was out with my partner last night, quite late, grabbing a bite to eat, and there was a table full of giggly 20-something girls, drinking and talking non-stop, you know just out having fun. Not that was very much part of my life even before we started the series, but when I think to myself, ‘where was I then?’ or ‘how did I end up skipping that period?’

“I forget that I ended up skipping that period because I was working those years, instead of being out with girlfriends, or… out in the social scene and stuff. I was very myopic, and we were so often in Vancouver, and there just wasn’t room for it, there wasn’t enough time. It was… I don’t… I don’t regret it in any way, shape, or form. But I think I sometimes forget that I was AWOL almost for a decade.”

GA, Washington Post, 2008

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July 10, 2010

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July 20, 2010

“David Duchovny is not happy. He stands behind Gillian Anderson in a bare-bones photo studio, resigned to having roll after roll of pictures taken on what promises to be another 16-hour day.“Anderson, sensing Duchovny’s mood, looks down at his hand on her left shoulder and tries to brush it away, as if it were a mosquito. Then she turns and jumps into his arms, laughing, looking like a little girl making trouble for a protective older brother. Startled to be holding her, the smile on Duchovny’s face is forced no longer.
“‘When we first started X-files,’ says Anderson, ‘I was so green. It was only my second time in front of a camera. I desperately needed someone to show me the ropes. And he did that. He was wonderful.’”
TV Guide, March 1995

“David Duchovny is not happy. He stands behind Gillian Anderson in a bare-bones photo studio, resigned to having roll after roll of pictures taken on what promises to be another 16-hour day.

“Anderson, sensing Duchovny’s mood, looks down at his hand on her left shoulder and tries to brush it away, as if it were a mosquito. Then she turns and jumps into his arms, laughing, looking like a little girl making trouble for a protective older brother. Startled to be holding her, the smile on Duchovny’s face is forced no longer.

“‘When we first started X-files,’ says Anderson, ‘I was so green. It was only my second time in front of a camera. I desperately needed someone to show me the ropes. And he did that. He was wonderful.’”

TV Guide, March 1995

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July 21, 2010

So much of the show was also about the amazing chemistry between David and Gillian. What were they like to work with?

William B Davis: It’s funny about the amazing chemistry between them because they didn’t get along well together…

I have heard that. Is that really true?

WBD: Well, that’s not for me to say, I suppose, but let’s say I think the relationship was inconsistent. They were fine to work with, you know. They were… they were overworked. I think this told on them - sometimes they kind of wished they were somewhere else whereas we Canadians were always delighted to be…

To be home?

WBD: Well, happy to be working! Just happy to be together working, so…

July 2010

June 28, 2011

Sounding very much like Scully describing Mulder, Anderson admits, “We have our ups and downs. At times it’s difficult. We both tend to be quite moody, but underneath I think we care about each other.”
They are both coy about whether they ever considered dating, but Anderson will allow that Duchovny is “like catnip” to women. When told this later, Duchovny, soon to be featured in a Playgirl interview, snorts. “Just call me David Ducatnip,” he says. “I wish I had the life people think I have.”
“The X-Files Exposed,” EW, March 1995

Sounding very much like Scully describing Mulder, Anderson admits, “We have our ups and downs. At times it’s difficult. We both tend to be quite moody, but underneath I think we care about each other.”

They are both coy about whether they ever considered dating, but Anderson will allow that Duchovny is “like catnip” to women. When told this later, Duchovny, soon to be featured in a Playgirl interview, snorts. “Just call me David Ducatnip,” he says. “I wish I had the life people think I have.”

“The X-Files Exposed,” EW, March 1995

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July 21, 2011

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

DUDE: But you just kind of sensed it and then you just dreaded doing scenes together?

DD: No, no, that’s the weird thing, is like — I remember there were a couple weeks where we weren’t really speaking to one another.

DUDE: [laughing] Wow!

DD: But then we’d do a scene, and it was great! We’d speak to one another, and love on one another like we do as Mulder and Scully… It is amazing to me, and I guess we were both professional and still made it happen, but, at this point I just love and appreciate her, and I’m glad that we’re not in that kind of intense situation where everybody just kinda loses their mind.

Opie & Anthony show, 2008.

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July 24, 2011

“We’re not close. Once in a while we find ourselves in intimate conversation, but we don’t seek each other out. We don’t visit each other’s trailers or see each other on weekends.”She is aware of the stories about discord on and off the set, but explains, “the press can’t possibly understand our relationship. It’s complicated and ever-changing. I have developed my own survival mechanisms that allow me to distance myself from this whole issue.”
GA, Calgary Sun, June 1998

“We’re not close. Once in a while we find ourselves in intimate conversation, but we don’t seek each other out. We don’t visit each other’s trailers or see each other on weekends.”

She is aware of the stories about discord on and off the set, but explains, “the press can’t possibly understand our relationship. It’s complicated and ever-changing. I have developed my own survival mechanisms that allow me to distance myself from this whole issue.”

GA, Calgary Sun, June 1998

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July 27, 2011

THE LAST TIME this magazine quizzed Duchovny, he announced himself a masked man, a coolly suave chocolate-wafer exterior over messily neurotic cream filling. The former quality is obvious on the set, as he jokes easily with male crew, and quips volubly with female visitors, as smooth and sweet as pureed banana. He chats easily with everyone, it seems, except Gillian Anderson.“We don’t really need to talk all the time or gossip,” he says. “We’ve worked together so much we don’t want to. We have a relationship of reliance more than a friendship. The interaction we have, we save for work. We save it all up for the camera. It’s like a superstition almost.”
Details, 1998 (on the set of FtF)

THE LAST TIME this magazine quizzed Duchovny, he announced himself a masked man, a coolly suave chocolate-wafer exterior over messily neurotic cream filling. The former quality is obvious on the set, as he jokes easily with male crew, and quips volubly with female visitors, as smooth and sweet as pureed banana. He chats easily with everyone, it seems, except Gillian Anderson.

“We don’t really need to talk all the time or gossip,” he says. “We’ve worked together so much we don’t want to. We have a relationship of reliance more than a friendship. The interaction we have, we save for work. We save it all up for the camera. It’s like a superstition almost.”

Details, 1998 (on the set of FtF)

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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

“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

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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January 29, 2012

“I came in when I was 24, and I’m going to be 30 this year. Those are formidable years in a person’s life. A lot has transpired over a seemingly short period of time. And I think that as a result of having to basically deal with everything in the moment — because of the constraints of work — I have been forced into this Petri dish of learning where I have had to move forward constantly. Because there’s no room to move backwards. No room whatsoever.”
GA, Vancouver Sun, April 1998

“I came in when I was 24, and I’m going to be 30 this year. Those are formidable years in a person’s life. A lot has transpired over a seemingly short period of time. And I think that as a result of having to basically deal with everything in the moment — because of the constraints of work — I have been forced into this Petri dish of learning where I have had to move forward constantly. Because there’s no room to move backwards. No room whatsoever.”

GA, Vancouver Sun, April 1998

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