While a large population of "The X-Files" fandom was upset
by the news, Duchovny and Anderson don't seem to be affected by the new
dynamic between their characters.
"That doesn't enter into my head at all, it's just trying to do the scripts as well as we can," Duchovny explained to E! News of why he didn't really give too much attention to Mulder and Scully's split.
The 55-year-old actor continued, "Since I'm not writing the
scripts ... I don't have any real interest in that kind of stuff. I find
the less I involve myself with stuff outside of the creation of what
we're doing, the better my work is. It's just better for me. That's the
way I've always done it. I didn't start out being an actor trying to
listen to five million people."
Anderson, on the other hand, suggested that the split is better for the story.
"Part of what is enticing about the duo is the fact that they are
against each other at the same time they are for each other," she said
with a laugh. "It's just too domestic a scenario to have it being that
they live in the same house, and they go home every night to the same
house while they're doing The X-Files during the day. It leaves a much
more intriguing and interesting dynamic to have us still maybe be in
love and have that spark going, that question mark."