Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock Science fiction fans and government conspiracy theorists alike may be in love with Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the dynamic FBI duo from "The X-Files," but the stars certainly aren't in love with each other. It is true that the two on-screen characters go together like peanut butter and jelly in every way imaginable. However, fans often impose this relationship on the actors. Contrary to popular belief, David Duchovny (Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Scully) are not, and have never been, an item. In fact, if you know anything about the behind-the-scenes action on "The X-Files," it's probably that the stars don't like each other very much. Of course, that never stopped the two from being professional, and working together for a solid 11 seasons between 2003 and 2018. In fact, you might even see the two acting on friendly terms on social media. So then what's the deal? Do Duchovny and Anderson hate each other? Or is there something more behind the controversy between the "X-Files" actors? On the X-Files set, Duchovny and Anderson were anything but friends Fox Despite Mulder and Scully going from work colleagues to romantic partners over the course of "The X-Files," the actors themselves weren't overly fond of each other. In fact, during a 2015 interview with The Guardian, Gillian Anderson revealed that "there were definitely periods when we hated each other... We didn't talk for long periods of time. It was intense, and we were both pains in the arse for the other at various times." Likewise, David Duchovny has also been forthcoming about how the two of them struggled to get along. "Familiarity breeds contempt," he told Metro in 2008. "We used to argue about nothing. We couldn't stand the sight of each other." Despite the two's incessant rivalry, both managed to at least maintain a stable working relationship throughout the lifespan of "The X-Files." This might seem contradictory, as it might feel impossible to act alongside someone you have contempt for, especially when your characters are so closely tied. However, it actually makes a lot of sense when you dig a bit deeper into the pair's working relationship. Duchovny and Anderson aren't friendly, but they are respectful Fox So far, it seems like everything David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have had to say about each other over the years has been negative. However, if you asked either actor at any point in time, you'd find that they have an underlying respect for each other. This was likely the reason they were able to work together on "The X-Files" set so closely, for such a long period of time. "It's nothing to do with the other person," Duchovny said in his interview with Metro. "All that fades away and you're just left with the appreciation and love for the people you've worked with for so long." Similarly, Anderson told The Guardian that, while there were "periods" where they hated each other, she felt that "hate is too strong a word." At the time of the article in 2015, she was forthcoming about the fact that "we are closer today than we have ever been." In the end, their mutual respect has always trumped their interpersonal issues. It's why you rarely, if ever, saw them bad-mouthing each other to the press, even if they were open about their dislike for each other. Nowadays, the two are much closer Fox While it is tough to call them close friends, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have gotten closer as the years have gone by. At least, they've become close enough that they're willing to take selfies with one another. In April, Anderson posted a picture of the two (along with her adorable pup) on Instagram with the caption, "Stella made a new friend today." Even then, the two aren't overly-chummy. So far, Anderson's selfie is the only time the two have interacted on social media. That being said, what they have now is a much more positive relationship compared to when they were co-workers. But even that doesn't stop fans from shipping the two like no tomorrow: "You two are the absolutely perfect dream team! Seeing you together always brings a smile to my face," wrote one fan in response to Anderson's selfie. "My favorite couple," wrote another. It actually seems like this facet of their relationship is what bothers the two the most. In 2016, Duchovny went on record with The Guardian about how fans shipping them upsets him. "Gillian and I are not lovers, or boyfriend and girlfriend," he said. "There seems to be a certain kind of Twitter contingent that wants us to be together. It's odd to me, because I've never had the fantasy of wanting two people together that aren't, or are."The X-Files. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny reunited (with her dog Stella) in April 2021. The two played Agents Mulder and Scully on The X-Files series in the '90s and '00s, a 1998 film (Image credit: Fox) David Duchovny made a name for himself on television thanks to his long-running role on The X-Files as Fox Mulder, although he went on to star in Showtime's Californication in a role that was definitely different from Mulder. Now, Duchovny is slated to return to Showtime for a new project, and it is high time that somebody get Duchovny's X-Files screen partner Gillian Anderson to appear in a project with him again after the X-Files revival ended on Fox in project bringing David Duchovny back to Showtime is potential series adaptation of the novel Truly Like Lightning, which Duchovny wrote and was published back in February 2021. Deadline reports that the potential Truly Like Lightning show has already received a script order in the development process, with Duchovny attached to play the leading man, write the adaptation, and executive produce if the script order results in a series order. Also on board are Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, who wrote and directed The Peanut Butter Falcon. They would direct and executive produce the what does that have to do with Gillian Anderson? Well, the plot of Truly Like Lightning could provide some potential characters for Anderson, and her roles ranging from The X-Files to Sex Education to play a sex therapist to The Crown prove that she has the range to do more than just play the skeptic to David Duchovny's believer during their time on the Fox series. The plot centers on Bronson Powers, to be played by Duchovny, who is a former Hollywood stuntman with three wives and ten children who has embraced a life off the grid and unplugged in the desert of Joshua life is turned upside down when a real estate developer attempts to ruthlessly force him off his desert land, which could result in his family being exposed to the temptations of modern 21st century America, which Bronson had tried to leave behind. The book is described as "a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert," and the real estate developer in the novel is a female the three wives and the real estate developer, there are four characters right there that Gillian Anderson could play for an adaptation! With David Duchovny so heavily involved with the potential project plus preexisting ties with Showtime, it's not unimaginable that he could bring Anderson in if she was so inclined and had the there is the point that at least some viewers might focus more on the X-Files reunion than anything happening in the new show, but Duchovny and Anderson are skilled enough actors that working opposite each other on such a different project could totally work, right? As a veteran X-Files fan, I have to say that I'd rather see Anderson as a separate and more distinct character than one of three wives. Although it would be fun to actually get to see them play love interests on screen for once after the Mulder/Scully situation!For his part, David Duchovny has said that he's "so excited to be heading back home to Showtime" and that he "can't wait to begin" the new collaboration for Truly Like Lightning. There is no guarantee at this point that Truly Like Lightning will get a series order, but with the writer of the book so heavily involved and formerly starring and executive producing a hit for the network, I can definitely see David Duchovny getting his project off the ground and adapted into a TV show, with or without Gillian Anderson for another X-Files you want to relive David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson's days together as Mulder and Scully, you can find the full run of The X-Files (including the divisive pair of revival seasons) streaming on Hulu now. Resident of One Chicago, Bachelor Nation, and Cleveland. Has opinions about crossovers, Star Wars, and superheroes. Will not time travel. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files. - Credit: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection. Courtesy of 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection Americkí herci David Duchovny a Gillian Anderson, kteří dohromady hráli v seriálu "The X Files", s vydáním obrazu na obrazovce získali celosvětovou popularitu a uznání nejen mezi diváky, ale i kritiky. Hrál tajné agenty FBI Foxa Muldera a Dany Scullyové. Byl na scéně román? Diskuse o románu mezi Davidem Duchovnym a Gillianem Andersonem se poprvé objevila na počátku devadesátých let se začátkem práce na seriálu. Zděšení herce za partnera ve filmu a pravdu bylo místo, které mělo být, ale nešel dál. Po prvních pokusech Davida, aby přišla o Gilliana, herečka odmítla. V reakci na to Duchovný dokonce trval na tom, aby byla nahrazena. Ale jak se ukázalo, důvodem k odmítnutí byl její vztah s uměleckým vedoucím snímku Clyde Klotz, s nímž Anderson podepsal jen tři měsíce po setkání. A za devět měsíců měla dceru, Piper. Práce na seriálu trvala devět let. Není divu, že herci, kteří hráli hlavní roli, se do jisté míry stali blízkými lidmi. Proto jejich přátelské vztahy často vyvolává pověsti, že se datují David Duchovny a Gillian Anderson. Ve skutečnosti, všechny tyto roky, oba stavěli vlastní rodinné štěstí zvlášť. Zatímco David Duchovny hrál jednu svatbu, Gillian Anderson se podařilo dvakrát rozvést, dostat se do kontaktu s občanským manželem Markem Griffithsem a porodit tři děti. Pocity vybuchly s obnovenou silou? Od konce natáčení série "The X Files" uplynulo třináct let. Fanoušci herců a obrazů se těšili na možné pokračování a nakonec se to stalo. Bylo obnoveno natáčení "souborů X" za účasti stejných hlavních postav. Premiéra seriálu se konala 24. ledna 2016. Za více než dvacet let seznamování se herci stali skutečnými přáteli. Jejich blízká komunikace a přátelský flirt stále nezanechávají v klidu ani novináře ani fanoušky. Ale teď rozhovory šly ještě dál. Nejnovější zprávy jsou plné titulků, které se David Duchovny a Gillian Anderson tajně oženili. A stalo se to v roce 2009, ale dosud neexistují žádné důkazy o vážné události. Podle informátorů pár opatrně ukrývá jejich vztah a na svatbě nebyli žádní hosté ani svědci. Ale to je nepravděpodobné. V době údajné svatby byl David stále ve formálním manželství s Tea Leoni. Není žádným tajemstvím, že PR je skvělý způsob, jak propagovat a propagovat jak filmy, tak samotné herce. Proto v předvečer vydání nové sezóny série není vůbec překvapen výskytem rozhovorů o vztahu Davida Duchovnyho a Gilliana Andersona, který každým dnem stále více získává nové detaily a předpoklady. Jednou z těchto skutečností bylo polibek herců. Jak víte, David už dlouho byl závislý na hudbě. Je skladatelem a umělcem, vydává alba, čas od času dává sólové koncerty. Takže na jednom z těchto koncertů Duchovny pozval Gilliana. Ale nebylo to jen mezi diváky. V jednom okamžiku přišel Anderson na jevišti a zpíval s Davidem píseň. Cítila se velmi volně, flirtovala. Na konci stopy políbili na rty. Samozřejmě, že tento polibek nebyl posluchači vůbec oceněn jako přátelský. Začali mluvit dokonce o svém vážném vztahu a Gillian se se svými dětmi přestěhoval do Davida. Samotní herci však takové předpoklady nevyjadřují. Nepotvrzují, ale nepopírají pravděpodobnost románu, což dále prohlubuje zájem novinářů. Теа Леони Hvězdy: Tea Leoni , David Duchovny , Gillian Anderson .
Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style TV & Radio Celebrity News DAVID DUCHOVNY has opened up on the enormity of his fame which came with The X-Files and, in turn, drove both he and Gillian Anderson "crazy". FOX/GETTYThe X-Files' David Duchovny opens up on feud with Gillian Anderson Don't miss the best new TV releases for 2022 and behind the scenes news Invalid emailWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More infoDavid and Gillian return as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in the long-awaited revival of The X-Files, which has already won over US audiences and is likely to do the same in the UK. But at the height of its success during the 90s, both actors became household names which caused turmoil between the two leading stars. Related articles "At times we were nuts with one another, where she [Anderson] was acting crazy or I was acting crazy, or we were both acting crazy," David, 55, told Radio Times. "But the thing about being crazy is you don't know you're crazy. I look back now and say, ‘Oh, I was a little nuts.' And I think Gillian would say the same. We both appreciate why the other was crazy. We get it, and forgive." FOXDavid admitted they both went 'crazy' at the height of their fame We both appreciate why the other was crazyDavid Duchoveny, Radio TimesThe actor also admitted finding the cult sci-fi series' conspiracy theories a little "hard to believe". He explained: "People can't keep secrets. I've never known anybody, not one person, to keep a secret. I find it hard to believe that they're keeping aliens from us because it's pretty juicy."The X-Files' return exceeded all expectations across the pond, eclipsing the viewing figures of its "final" episode in 2012. IPSO Regulated Copyright ©2022 Express Newspapers. "Daily Express" is a registered trademark. All rights reserved.
Gillian Anderson y David Duchovny eran la pareja de ensueño en la serie The X-Files con sus eternamente enamorados personajes Dana Suclly y Fox Mulder, respectivamente. Pero fuera del ojo del lente de de la cámara, en la vida real, la verdad es que este par estaba muy lejos de llevarse bien y de recibir un disparo o el ataque de una criatura David Duchovny attends a Seattle event celebrating the release of his new novella, The Reservoir in June. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images)David Duchovny had a front row view of life in New York City during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. While other New Yorkers left Manhattan for more open air areas in the winter and spring of 2020, The X-Files star stayed in his high-rise apartment that overlooked Central Park. "My son was a junior in high school, so we weren't going anywhere," Duchovny tells Yahoo Entertainment now about the mood of New York in March 2020. "There was this very real quiet that would be punctured by ambulances, but otherwise there was very little ambient street sound, which you don't realize how overwhelming it is until it's gone." (Duchovny shares two children with his ex-wife, Téa Leoni.)That's the version of Manhattan that the author and actor recreates in his just-released novella, The Reservoir. Set during the initial months after COVID-19 made landfall in New York, the narrative follows an ex-Wall Street bean counter named Ridley, who passes the long days alone in his apartment by taking time-lapse photos of the park below. Estranged from his ex-wife and adult daughter, his life is absent of any other human contact — that is, until he notices a flashing light in an apartment window across Central Park that may be another lonely soul seeking a connection."I'm always amazed at how human nature can acclimate to the strangest circumstances and soon after that, it's the new normal," Duchovny says of how he burrowed into Ridley's solitary state of mind, which goes to some increasingly strange places as his obsession with his unseen neighbor grows and cabin fever sets in. "Before anybody really knew how the virus was transmitted, we were all very superstitious and we must have all been really afraid. The danger is now that we've come out of it a little bit, some of us have come to think: 'Oh, that was a hoax' or whatever. But it wasn't."I get pissed when people say: 'Fauci backtracked on the math,'" Duchovny continues, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has overseen America's response to the pandemic. "That's how science works! They proceed by trial and error — it's not a lie if he changes his stance. It's that we have more information. My pet peeve is when people label the scientific process misinformation. Of course, they don't know [everything] right off the bat: They're figuring it out and that's going to involve some mistakes. The stakes are high and that sucks, but that's not the fault of scientists."David Duchovny's new novella, The Reservoir, recreates life in Manhattan in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image: Akashic Books)In a wide-ranging conversation, Duchovny discusses how he came to feel sympathy for the flunky financial world he created; collaborating with Meg Ryan on her upcoming feature, What Happens Later; and how he feels about Gillian Anderson's very public creative complaints about the most recent X-Files media became an outlet for younger people in the first months of the pandemic, but Ridley doesn't express an interest in any of those platforms. What was his media diet in your mind? Well, I think what's interesting about Ridley — at least to me — is that he's not young enough to live and breathe the air of social media. He hears rumors of it, but he's not savvy enough to take part in it. As I executed the book, I wanted to work my way into a sympathetic relationship with people whose beliefs in misinformation, I think, are trash. There's a beautiful human desire to want to know the answer, and we live in a world now where a figure like Q is supposed to be the key to of me gets pissed off, because misinformation is lethal in many ways, but the other part is completely sympathetic and understanding because humans are pattern-making animals. We are the ones that try to solve the puzzle or that see the world as a puzzle. So even though Ridley doesn't get sucked into the new iteration of that puzzle making, which would be Twitter and Facebook and all that, he still has that in him. And he pays for it in many that point, do you think he would have fallen in with the QAnon crowd or become an anti-vaxxer as the pandemic continued? I haven't thought of that, so I don't know if I believe this answer. [Laughs] But it's related to my previous answer: When I'm writing a story, I'm always trying to figure out why the story interests me. I don't write thrillers or potboilers, but I do like plots and I trust myself to know that if I'm drawn to a plot, there's something underpinning it. With this book, it was the relationship between Ridley and his daughter and the intensity of the emotion that Ridley's been repressing over the pandemic, because he can't see her or can't make up with her. That emotion is transmuted into this kind of false quest for the answer to everything hit these points in our recent history where we've been driven so tragically and desperately inward and alone that we are also driving outward to reach out to other people. That was the case after 9/11, but with the virus, that outward drive was taken away. There was nowhere to put it because you were alone, and the antidote to your loneliness was going to kill you. It was this terrible bind that we got put in: The feeling that you're going to die if you actually try and have a human connection with someone signs copies of his books at the 2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)Your own daughter is grown now: Did you draw on any of your own experiences as a parent for the book?Not specifically, but just the bare fact of being a father and having the recognition that when you have a child, you're balancing the desperate need to protect them with the understanding that you can't keep them safe every moment of their life. It's a devastating kind of love, but one that's a big one. So, I don't draw on my life specifically, but I draw on it historically, keeping an eye on my own soul and it's trajectory throughout this whole not a lot of sympathy among the general public for Wall Street employees these days. Did you feel sympathy for Ridley as you were creating him?It's funny, the reason why I made Ridley a Wall Streeter is that I didn't want people to have sympathy for him. I didn't want to have sympathy for him! [Laughs] I wanted to satirize the kind of person that thinks he's an artist because he's able to buy a bunch of art. So that was really the beginning of it: me saying f*** you to these guys that think they can own art and somehow that gives them credibility. But as the writing went on, Ridley started to push back against me. He was like, "Hey, stop — I'm not one-dimensional." Then things got complicated, and I'm always overjoyed when that I came to think of Ridley as an artist without hands. He does have a certain sensitivity to him, but he has no talent and no way to express it regardless of this time-lapse business that he's up to. So I have great sympathy for that because any artist feels that we're always falling short, and that everything we create is a failure. It's never this great triumph that we're led to believe when we see it celebrated on awards shows or whatever. I guarantee you, when you go home with that award you know how bad your thing is, and how it's not what you had meant it to be! If you have an artistic soul, but you can never even get close to expressing yourself, that's a tragedy worth investigating to on the set of his 2004 directorial debut, House of D. (Photo: Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection)You're currently adapting one of your other books, Bucky F*cking Dent, to the big screen. Are you enjoying the process? It's been interesting. I had originally written it as a screenplay, but was unable to get it made back in the day. So now I've re-written the screenplay with aspects that grew in the process of writing the novel. And when we shoot, there will be other demands of the form, because moviemaking is affected by a million things that writing isn't affected by, you know? Movies can be affected because of weather, because of sickness or because of a bad lunch. [Laughs] Whatever happens on those days happens, and you have to kind of allow magic to happen or disaster to happen, which isn't so much the case with writing where you're really in total Reservoir references Alfred Hitchock's Rear Window several times. If you were to make this book into a film, is that the model you'd use? It's a great question because I have thought about how this film could potentially go in many different directions. There's the Spalding Gray version, where I would be sitting at a table as Ridley reading the story, with bits and pieces dramatized. But I've also thought of it as more of a thriller where the mystery neighbor is fleshed out with more backstory. I mean, there's only two pages of dialogue in the whole book, so the story could be told in lots of different ways. There's the straight pandemic tragedy, there's the surreal, magical kind of tale. It's exciting to think about, although I doubt it'll ever get made!Meg Ryan attends the 2021 amfAR Gala in Los Angeles. Duchovny is set to star in her latest film. (Photo: Taylor Hill/WireImage)You're currently collaborating with Meg Ryan on her new film, What Happens Later. I feel like they missed a big opportunity by not bringing her back for Top Gun: Maverick. Carole Bradshaw should have been in it!I'll let her know! [Laughs] Working with Meg has been a pleasure: We're not shooting the film yet, but talk about someone who has an artist's soul and the ability to execute. I've really enjoyed working on the material with her, and listening to her vision for the film. She's pursuing an artist's life: She happened to be a huge movie star, but she's always been an X-Files co-star, Gillian Anderson, recently expressed her disappointment with how the revival ended with Scully being pregnant again. Did you know at the time that she wasn't happy with that storyline?No, that was the first I'd heard of it. Personally, I don't like to air creative grievances like that in public, so I was surprised to see it and David Duchovny in the 2016 revival of The X-Files. (Photo: Shane Harvey/Fox)Are you up for more X-Files if the opportunity presents itself or do you think the most recent series was enough?I thought the first seven years were enough! But I'm always up for more, clearly. Someone sent me a clip of Joel McHale from the 2016 episodes we did, and it's a spot-on description of where we're at six years later. I don't think [X-Files creator] Chris Carter gets enough credit for being [prescient]. Forget about the ins and outs of plots and who gets pregnant or who gets shot. I mean, every show turns into a soap opera, so you have limited options. People are going to die or get pregnant or go to prison, right? Or become think like it's a little bit in the weeds to worry about character's fates, when you realize that Chris somehow made a show in 1993, and again in 2016, that predicted what 2022 would be like. If he wanted to do more, I'd certainly listen to him. I'd say, "What have you got?" Because I want to know the future, too, you know what I mean? And not denigrating Gillian's feelings about Scully being pregnant or the character. I certainly had misgivings about my character throughout the run. It's in the nature of a long-running thing. But to take the long view, what that show is able to embrace thematically is really the key to its longevity, and if we were to do it again, it's just a question of: "What have we go to say."The Reservoir is on sale now at most major booksellers, including Amazon. . 400 240 448 156 199 295 480 110