From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   Next week's (20th - 26th August) TV Guide has an interesting interview   
   with DD about his new show and XF2. Thought I'd transcribe it for you   
   folks who haven't read it.   
      
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   David Duchovny   
   The _Californication_ star on his risky new role, the next "X-Files"   
   movie and getting lucky in love   
      
   -What attracted you to such a darkly comic series like _Californication_?   
      
   It was more of an adult style, '70s-movie type comedy rather than what   
   you see in movies today. It was adults acting badly, but like bad adults   
   rather than bad children. It's so much fun to be able to play a guy who   
   really doesn't care what anybody thinks about him.   
      
   -What's the key to your character, Hank Moody?   
      
   This is a writer who's not writing anymore. He's come to Hollywood to   
   watch his novel get turned into a crappy movie and in the process has   
   lost his family, and he's just drinking and driving himself to the   
   grave. The only thing that's keeping him going is the fact that he   
   thinks he should be with his family, and he's trying to figure out how   
   to get them back. It's not a dark show. It's the lighter side of   
   self-destruction.   
      
   -When your wife, Téa Leoni, read the script, she didn't think Hank was a   
   character the audience could relate to. Why did you think he could be?   
      
   She just thought, "How are you going to pull this off?" That's what was   
   always interesting to me. How do you make him funny? And how do you make   
   him somebody that you're actually going to root for? So that was the big   
   trick.   
      
   -So what are his redeeming qualities?   
      
   He bathes every day. I think anybody is redeemable if you understand   
   their motivation. And by motivation, [I mean] usually it's pain.   
      
   -Plus, he's a good parent. He wouldn't let his daughter get away with   
   the same stuff that he does, right?   
      
   I like that about him. He's hypocritical and he knows it. Rather than to   
   have family values rammed down our throats and then people have dirty   
   little secrets, this guy is the opposite of that--his dirty little   
   secret is that his family values are actually intact.   
      
   -Is it true you didn't want to do another TV series?   
      
   Yeah, I wasn't thinking of it. But whenever I thought of TV, I just   
   thought of network schedules. So when I started to think of doing a   
   character like this in a workable, livable 11-week burst, it seemed kinf   
   of like doing a movie.   
      
   -Speaking of which, have you seen an "X-Files" movie script?   
      
   I haven't seen it. I'm a little behind there, but it's in the air. It's   
   nearby.   
      
   -Has creator Chris Carter said what it's about?   
      
   I have vague ideas, but they're so vague that I wouldn't be able to say   
   anything that would make any sense. *And* I could be wrong.   
      
   -Is Mulder a character you like revisiting?   
      
   Sure. I always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never wanted to kill   
   the character and leave the character behind, but I was tired of the   
   grind of a television show. I thought it was a natural for the movies.   
      
   -You've been married for 10 years. Is there a secret to a happy marriage?   
      
   It's all in the first date. I think the statistics for arranged   
   marriages are the same as for marriages of choice: half survive. That   
   tells me that marriages survive if the people are suited for one   
   another. So, as far as Téa and I are concerned, we chose well. But I   
   can't take credit for it, because it certainly was just a hunch. It   
   wasn't because I'm so smart or sensitive.   
      
   --Carita Rizzo   
      
   FUN FACT: Duchovny was never fond of wearing his wedding band, so to   
   celebrate their 10-year anniversary, he and wife Téa Leoni got matching   
   tattoos on their ring fingers. The tattoos read AYSF, which stands for a   
   secret sweet nothing they often tell each other.   
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   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com/   
      
   My life is just one horror after another. --House   
      
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