Sydney radio station's morning hosts, 2-Day FM's Kyle and Jackie-O, talk to David Duchovny. Wednesday 09 February, 2005 K: It's the Kyle and Jackie-O show. It's no secret to everyone that my, one of my favourite shows of all time is The X-Files, and I've got all the DVD's. J: And now the DVD's are out. K: I know they've been out for about six months BUT, they out at reduced prices and to celebrate this I thought I'd ring up one of my all-time favourite stars. Jackie's still got a photo of him and her above her desk, J: I do K: It is... David Duchovny. J: Hello! DD: Hi, how are you? K: Yeah, we're good, how are you? J: (at the same time) Good thanks. DD: I'm very well, thank you. K: Look, that, that's great to hear. Are you sick and tired of talking about The X-Files, even though it is one of the greatest things? DD: No I.. I haven't talked about it in a long time, so I'm happy to be talking about it. K: Well, good. J: I have to clear something up first and foremost, is there going to be a second X-Files movie? 'Cause there's been rumours floating around there is. DD: Well, I think there is going to be and we wanna, we all want to shoot it, ah, this coming winter. You know, we just have to get everybody in the same place at the same time, but the major ah, players in the equation all wanna do it, - myself, Gillian and Chris,--. J: Excellent! DD: ---so hopefully we can all get it done. K: Any chance of your shooting it in Australia, cause our dollar is so cheap and you could get just get so much more alien action (Jackie-O and David laugh) DD: I wanna make... you know we used to shoot in Canada, the Canadian dollar is so strong it might make sense to go to Australia. J: Oh, that's fantastic. K: And I'm happy to throw myself in as a extra as an alien sort of person, keep that it mind. DD: That... that's sweet of you, how about can we use your house? K: Yeah, done! J: Oh, fabulous. Now, there's been rumours and you've heard them throughout the years that you've been doing X-Files, that there's been rivalry between you and Gillian Anderson. Is that all completely false? DD: (Pause) Um, well yeah. It... It's... I don't understand exactly what the rivalry would be, but that's false, yes I would say it is false. I mean you know you work together so closely for so long there are gonna be days, as you two know, where you, ah-- K: Oh yes. DD: --Where you wanna kill each other, but, that's just superficial petty things that, with the passage of time, just kind of melt away. K: There are those kind of days where you want to kill each other and those other days where you're thinking 'one more drink and we just might actually have sex with each other'. [ Jackie-O and Kyle laugh ] DD: Well, that's you two guys, and that may be today. Maybe today will be the day. K: Oh, my fingers are crossed, David, believe me. Hey... DD: My fingers are crossed for you. K: How's the family? Everything great there? DD: Everybody's healthy and, ah, I think happy unless they're lying to me, and.... J: Now, your wife, Téa Leoni is doing a film with Jim Carrey. How is she, cause he seems to be a real crack-up. DD: Yeah, she's, ah, having a great time, she's doing Having Fun With Dick And Jane with him, and I think that's going to be really funny. K: Do you ever get worried when your wife's up there, 'cause you see all those People magazine and Who magazine saying that people are always hooking up together on movie sets. Do you ever sit there and think, hmmm Jim Carrey, he's funny.. and good looking. Do you worry? DD: I don't, really. No spite to Jim, I agree, I think he's funny and good looking. I mean, maybe, maybe he and I could get together, but... [Laughter.] K: That's good DD... I don't worry about my wife that way. J: Do you and your wife critique each other? Does she watch things back that you do and vice versa, and go, oh you know... DD: Yeah. Yeah, we're pretty gentle. Although, you know, I think she's done it with me. I happen to truly believe that she's incredibly gifted, so it's easy for me to critique her, cause I really rarely ever have anything negative to say. She likes my work, which, you know, but she would probably have to say that anyway. J: Oh, she's beautiful. I like her, she's gorgeous. DD: I... I directed her in a movie that I wrote and directed, it comes out in the States in April, I don't know when in Australia. It's called House Of D, she was... J: Yeah, with Robin Williams. DD: Yeah, with Robin Williams. She was very nervous to act while I was directing, so I found that sweet. K: Are you sure it was nervous about you, or was she just stressed out being opposite Mork from Ork. [Laugher ] DD: No, she actually wasn't in any scenes with Robin, but I just think she didn't want to disappoint me, and to me that was never, never an option. K: Sweet J: Aw, that's so sweet. Now you don't wear your wedding ring with her, do you? Is that because you have some sort of allergic reaction to metal? K: Oh, yeah right!. We've all used that one before. J: Is that true? DD: I'm not a jewellery guy, and I don't like the way it feels. And when I clap my hands a lot --- I clap all day long, clapping like a monkey -- and it hurts. K: You know, I've never been a ring dude. You know ring dude.. Liberace's your ring dude, not David Duchovny. DD: I'm thinking maybe I'll get the toe ring. J: Now there's a new trend. That'd be nice to see. K: And an anklet to match, cause that always looks nice. DD: Yeah, you have to be very limber to get married and put the ring on an kiss the woman at the same time and get your foot up in the air. J: Stick around, more with David Duchovny in just a second. (About 5 or so minutes later) K: Welcome back to the Kyle and Jackie-O show. We're on the phone chatting with, oh, my favourite X-Files spook, David Duchovny. J: Now David, I just want to wanted to ask you, cause when The X-Files finished because it ran for so long, how did you find kind of not having a job to go to each day and just being able to spend time at home? DD: It was hard. I mean, when you're in a series like that that's kind of all-consuming, it feels like it's hard work, but you realise that so many of the other things in your life are being taken care of for you. Then when we ended the show it was kind of like a decompression time and it was hard, you know, hard not to go to the same place every day. And by the sixth or seventh year, whatever, it was really an unconscious kind of a thing, where I knew how to do my job, but all of a sudden that was ... K & J: Yeah. DD: But, all of a sudden that was gone, and it's great, because it forces me to create in other areas of my life and also to take care of my family, you know, but it was painful. K: A lot of people mistake actors in movies and on the TV scenes as that they are really that sort of person... J: Mulder. K: And you played an FBI Agent, so I'm imagining that if you were out to score some drugs, it would be very difficult, because people would think you were actually an FBI agent. DD: Oh, I've run into that problem! [Laughter] DD: I've run into problem that across two.. all things where you can imagine it.. it's very hard, very hard for me. K: Yes. You've got to be very careful, you're like "No, I'm just an actor. Nothing to do with the FBI, at all". J: Now, do you... DD: The fact that I flashed my badge earlier has nothing to do with anything. K: Exactly. I'd be doing that, too. I'm cop obsessed. Love cops, love FBI, love everything like that. Do you still, are you into all that sort of thing, or are you over it now? DD: I never was, I never was cop obsessed. And I should tell you that usually when I profiled serial killers and stuff like that they're usually cop obsessed. J: Oh, that explains it. K: Oh my God. At least we'll know how I'll finish this career. J: So what TV shows do you watch, if any? DD: You know I'll try to watch a movie on cable now, there's so many different options, but there hasn't been a television show that's really caught me. J: Well, we.. DD: I'll watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. J: Oh yeah. K: Oh that's good, Larry David. J: What about Desperate Housewives, cause that's just started here in our country, but it's huge over in the US isn't it. DD: Yeah, yeah it is. K: You should get yourself on that. All those chicks would root you. They're like in their forties, up for action. You should have a look at that show. DD: You know, as soon as I'm off the phone I'm callin' my agent. [Laughter] K: You could make it a beeline for Teri Hatcher. Now I was, ah, look it was just so great to talk to ya. Look, we'll just tell everyone again that The X-Files DVD's are out there, all the seasons, from start to finish. J: That's right, in the second DD: No way, all nine of them? K: Yeah, all nine are here and available to own now on DVD and look, we're sorry to interrupt your day just to let you know that we've reduced the price on them over here in our country. J: It seems so petty now. DD: I don't like that very much. Have you reduced the Seinfeld prices too? K: Yep. J: Yeah, they're all reduced. K: The Seinfeld's in the fifty cent bin. DD: Oh that's good. J: Even Friends is reduced. K: The X-Files is still very good, you'll still make some nice ching off it, David, don't you worry about that. DD: I'll be lookin' out for that! K: There he is, we're looking forward to him obviously coming out to the country to film the next X-Files, you heard it here first. [DD laughs] K: David Duchovny, have a nice day. DD: Nice to talk to ya.