David Duchovny is a National treasure.
While he’s an astounding actor who’s criminally underrated, what I love most about him is how honest he is with the press. And now that “The X-Files” reunion is a real thing, he’s being asked about it in every interview.
Just the other day he told EW that he got emotional when reading the new “X-Files” revival script.
“I just read it about an hour ago and I started crying reading the first page. It was just so strange to see the names on the page. It had nothing to do with the script itself. It was just like, I’d been talking about this for a long time. We’d been planning it for a long time. It took a long time to get all the people in the same place and get the deal with Fox. So let’s say two years we’ve been talking about doing it. Now it’s the fun part. Now we actually get to do it. That was nice and strangely emotional for me, and I’ll have to figure out how to use that [in the performance].”
Duchovny got emotional because he was so happy about a project, which is as rare and magical as a unicorn in Hollywood. It makes me emotional knowing that, after all of these years, he’s still this invested in both the character and the project. Duchovny is going to put his all into Fox Mulder’s return, even if it’s only 6 episodes.
But alas, there’s always talk of more, and Duchovny is so dedicated he’d like “The X-Files” to continue past this closing arc.
“I would be open to doing another cycle,” Duchovny said. “I don’t know that I could do a 20-episode version of this show at this point in my life, and I don’t know that Gillian could. But I think everybody is open ended on what happens after this. Certainly, we didn’t bring it back with the idea of ending it.”
Gillian Anderson has been just as vocal about her love of the franchise that launched her career. And being a regular on “Hannibal” is eating up much of her time, as well as a wide variety of other projects. With streaming services taking over the world, I think there’s a lot of opportunity to see “X-Files” go further than 6 episodes. And frankly, I like the idea of short, self-contained stories that get straight to the point. There’s nothing worse having to sit through “filler” episodes just to get to the finale’s big reveal, right?!
FOX is getting ready for a big push, setting “The X-Files” for return on Sunday, January 24, 2016. If it’s as big as I think it’s going to be, be prepared to believe in more than just Mulder and Scully…
