shit.between.us

Maybe you should tell ‘em what scenes you sucked in.

What I love about this interview is that I’m perfectly certain they never dated, but Gillian is so confused and coy and uncomfortable that by the end you think she’s not so certain. They couldn’t learn to give straight answers!

And the Youtube comments on this video are always hilarious.

“Home” dailies (part 1)

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

Recent video is recent!

Press room, 1998 Golden Globes. Edited by me!

I’m a dork and I like the little shoulder-bump at :33.

As requested, these are outtakes from “Hollywood AD.” David’s a little naughty at the end!

myxfics:

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson watching the first scene between Mulder and Scully on Pilot episode from The X Files.

This is highly humorous.

GA: I’m David Duchovny.

DD: And I’m Gillian Anderson.

BOWMAN: “I can tell you what’s not in the film is a blast. After we did six or seven takes, I said, ‘Cut, print. Got it. Thank you very much.’ They said, ‘No, we’d like to go one more time.’ So they started the scene. And they got right into the drama, coming closer and closer. And then tongues came out. And then they slapped up against the wall. She drove him up against the wall. Oh, it was fabulous. Then they did it again, because the cameraman goofed.”

According to Duchovny, he and Anderson came up with the lip-lock as a lark. “There was never a written [direction] that we would be kissing,” he says. “We did it to our liking. It was bad, but we kept going.”

TV Guide, June 1998

To wrap up this theme:

The rumor is that you and Gillian shot a take where you kissed. True?
“No, no, no. No. It was just like, we were acting like it was, like, a gross carnal coupling, you know? It was a joke for the crew and forus. The actual kissing and you know - that was never a part of the movie and so we never would have shot that, no. The only time we did that was as a joke. Gillian and I did it to our liking and then I said, you know, ‘Let’s do one, let’s do one where we - I take you up against the wall here.’ But that was never- there was never any thought - we were outside of the camera’s view actually at that point, so that’s not even on film.”

TV Guide, 1998

GA: You know, their relationship was so intimate for so many years… the friendship and the camaraderie and the love that these people share for each other goes beyond any paper that’s signed or any sex scene or any - you know, it’s so much deeper than all of that… and they should just leave that… alone…

DD: What did you have for lunch?

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DD: It’s a character that I love, it’s a show that I love… I love working on it with… Gillian and the people…

Early Show, July 2008

Remember I told you before about that uber awkward video of a talk-show-chat they did to promote FtF?

I fouuunnnd it.

Until February 2008, this was the only video I had ever seen of David and Gillian in the same room interacting for more than two or three seconds - minus one or two behind-the-scenes clips. I was really curious how they would do this time around, talking about TXF and their characters, because David’s reluctance to talk about any of that is just palpable in this old clip.

Then Wondercon happened and CHANGED OUR LIVES FOR EVER.

Chris on David and Gillian in 2008:

“It’s always magical to see them, because it’s almost as if time stops for them. When they look at each other, it’s like they share something that only they know. It’s like they share a secret.

“Whenever I see that, whenever I see them embrace and look at each other, the smiles are— there’s not a moment’s falseness. There’s a true warmth between them.

“We’ve all had our difficulties and we’ve all had our problems, and as it is a family, it can be a dysfunctional family. When I see them come back together it’s always the same chemistry as Mulder and Scully.”