One writer said that you have an air of confidence that could be interpreted as smugness. Are you smug?

“Gillian did an interview in which she said I was arrogant, and when I read the article I wondered, Why would someone think I’m arrogant? A friend of mine said, ‘If you don’t need something from somebody, if you’re independent, they’ll think you’re arrogant, Because that’s threatening.’ OK, I’ll take that. I’m a little like Holden Caulfield—the things I hate more than anything else are hypocrisy and pretension. They make my skin crawl. And I would put arrogance in the same category. To perceive myself as arrogant would hurt.”

David Duchovny, ‘Playboy,’ 1998

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The only man constant in her life is co-star David Duchovny.

Scottish Daily Record, 2000

Sometimes, when you are reading through lots of old articles from the 90s, you are confronted with an obnoxious yet delightful sentence like this one. Some (tabloid) reporter actually asked Gillian about her love life, rehashed the list of her previous boyfriends, and then landed us with this line.

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“I couldn’t care less about the rumours that we don’t get along. Whether what is out there is truth or fiction, there’s nothing that can be done or said. Some absurd and some accurate things have been said about our relationship. I don’t think anybody could understand it. It’s complicated, ever-changing. Our relationship is good. We basically show up on the set and work.”

GA, Scottish Daily Record, 2000

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“It starts on the East Coast. Thousands — maybe tens of thousands — retreat to their bedrooms and basements at a specific time. They log on to computers, and fire up scanners, CD-ROMs and more high-tech equipment.

“It spreads west in hourly increments, striking next in the heartland. Phone lines are tied up for hours as data is transmitted from private homes, dormitories and offices. Finally, it seizes the entire West Coast. From Seattle to San Diego, the devoted spend hours laboring away by the light of their 26-inch monitors and glow-in-the-dark posters of bug-eyed aliens.”

“Fan sites show dedication, creativity and a bit of paranoia,” MSNBC, 1998

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“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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For our first “X-Files” cover in 1996, Rolling Stone captured the sexual tension of the cult TV hit with a shot of agents Mulder and Scully in bed together. But behind the scenes, the tension between stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson was very much real. When Anderson got her solo cover a year later, David Lipsky wrote, “You can feel the competitiveness on the set.”

Reading the interview now, Anderson reflects, “I am glad that I did not come across as the ditz I sometimes do when I run off at the mouth. But also fascinating to still, after all these years, have a reaction to reading that David was the favored child! So not true! I am joking, of course.”

Rolling Stone, May 2006

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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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When David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson finally sit down together for an interview, it is politely, like family members who come together a few times a year purely out of obligation but who nonetheless recognize each other’s importance in their lives.

They are not similar people, Anderson and Duchovny, but they are forced together in a coupling that the public views as idyllic, and because of this there is an oddly conspiratorial feel to their interaction.

“It’s a difficult relationship because it’s like an arranged marriage,” Duchovny says. “We didn’t choose to be together.” When the first question is asked— “How has your personal dynamic changed over the course of four seasons?” — they look at each other as if to make sure they’re on the same page, and Duchovny begins speaking. “It changes all the time, right?” Anderson nods in agreement.

DUCHOVNY: It’s not that it used to be one thing and it’s another thing now. It’s cyclic.
Are you in an up cycle at the moment?
ANDERSON: Today, yes.
DUCHOVNY: Or else we wouldn’t be here.

US Magazine, 1997

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He is, at 36, the brooding lit-crit professor, the tortured bard, the rumpled intellectual you want to seduce, to skate out of his brainiac exile. In short, a magnet for artsy chicks.

He is also, like the character he’s best know for, FBI Agent Fox Mulder of ‘The X-Files,’ vaguely disturbing. He is, like almost every character he’s played— a hostage to killers, a biker touched by God, a transvestite— uneasy. Unlike Mulder, who is an innocent among thieves, he does manipulate, but artfully, subtly and so skillfully that you don’t blame him. In fact, you’re honored he bothered. He is a dark and stormy knight, which, as any woman will tell you, is far more compelling than that white-tight guy on the horse.

GQ, ‘Darkman,’ aka craziest article ever except for this other one on Gillian that I’ll post later, 1997

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“The relationship shifts constantly,” affirms Anderson. “On a daily basis, it shifts. It’s complicated and that’s gone through the ringer of speculation in the media and tabloids.

“I really couldn’t care less about what’s said in the tabloids. Whether what’s out there is truth or fiction, there’s nothing that can be done or said about it. There’ve been some absurd things written about our relationship and there have been some very accurate things written about our relationship. And I don’t think anybody could really understand it. And if anybody would understand, it would be somebody from the crew in Vancouver.”

GA, 1998 Cult Times

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