In his new TV series Aquarius starring as the hard as nails investigating cop, Duchovny is electrifying, which he finds not overly impressed. Now in his mid 50s, newly
divorced from Tea Leoni, he seems to have hit his stride. He “feels good about the place he is” and “just kind of expressing myself in different ways and doing work
that he's enjoying because he doesn’t feel he has anything to prove.”
On The X Files Revival:
You are returning to The X-Files … how is it different this time around?
The
difference is I have changed and Gillian (Anderson) has changed. I am a
better actor and Gillian is a better actor, and we get to bring those
changes and abilities now to the roles as they are written 20 years ago.
So that’s interesting, it’s not going to be the same, it can’t be the
same, and we are not the same.
And working again with Gillian after all those years?
It
feels familiar. We worked together for so long, a long time ago, but
then we worked together again about eight years ago. I think there’s
just something about us, the fact that we did that show at that time in
our lives for so long. We are always going to have an acting connection
to fall back on, and it feels that way.
What was that first day on the set like?
Unfortunately
I had about five pages of expositional dialogue, I hadn’t been asked to
say that kind of crap in a long time. I mean, electrogravitic
propulsion. That’s just the tidbit. There were five pages of that. So it
was kind of great that first day, because it was like OK, this is how
this guy speaks, this is the world we are in, let’s get in shape for it.
Full interview: Star 2