“I got the first script this morning,” the actor told EW during a recent interview. “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].”
But what about the script itself? “I can tell you absolutely nothing—and it’s fantastic,” Duchovny said.
So we asked Duchovny whether he could reveal if the new episodes would
feature stand-alone mysteries or have a mythology that weaves through
the mini-season. “Even though there’s only six, there will be a mix,” he
said. “It’s not really The X-Files without the mythology.”
That Fox only ordered six episodes have led some to assume X-Files will only be a limited-series return, or a miniseries. Yet Duchovny revealed that he’s interested in more. “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.”
Is there anything about becoming Fox Mulder again that he’s not happy about? “Probably running through the forest at four in the morning.”