“It’s fantastic to be part of it,” he said. “At first it’s a little
frightening and feels like a strait-jacket. But as time goes on, you
just learn to be grateful.”
The star used Adele’s album 21 to explain his X-Files achievement.
The star used Adele’s album 21 to explain his X-Files achievement.
“I was reading about Adele in the New York Times, and they were asking a
producer about the pressure for her to come up with another 21, and he
said, ‘you find one unicorn in the forest, that’s an amazing thing. To
find two in the forest, that just doesn’t happen’. I guess at some point, I came to grips with the fact that The X-Files
is my unicorn and I’m not going to have another success like that – nor
do I really want to. It’s enough to have one phenomenon, I don’t need
two. One unicorn is fine.”
In the opening episode of the revival, Mulder and Scully take on a case involving alien abduction.
“It appears to me that the general audience has splintered into so many different factions that I suppose you could get a vociferous and passionate fanbase for just about anything and try and clamour for a reboot. But The X-Files just seems to somehow maintain its presence even for however many years we didn’t do it. I don’t know why – I’m grateful for it. It’s just something that is.”
The two stars have enjoyed acclaim for work outside of The X-Files. US-based David was asked if he had watched any of Gillian’s recent projects.
“I’ve seen The Fall and I think it’s great. I haven’t really thought about doing British television because I live here. But obviously I think British television, the quality, is quite staggering across the board.”
In the opening episode of the revival, Mulder and Scully take on a case involving alien abduction.
“It appears to me that the general audience has splintered into so many different factions that I suppose you could get a vociferous and passionate fanbase for just about anything and try and clamour for a reboot. But The X-Files just seems to somehow maintain its presence even for however many years we didn’t do it. I don’t know why – I’m grateful for it. It’s just something that is.”
The two stars have enjoyed acclaim for work outside of The X-Files. US-based David was asked if he had watched any of Gillian’s recent projects.
“I’ve seen The Fall and I think it’s great. I haven’t really thought about doing British television because I live here. But obviously I think British television, the quality, is quite staggering across the board.”
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