Rosie O'Donnell: Our first guest has
played the world's most paranoid FBI agent for five years running. He can
be seen in the movie version of the X-Files which I cannot wait for in just
a couple of weeks. The plot is so top secret that we can only show a little
snippet of the trailer, take a look. (trailer runs)
RO: (keeps pressing the button to play
the theme over and over again with a paranoid look in her eyes, audience
laughs) Please welcome David Duchovny!!!! {David comes out wearing a big
smile and a lovely black shirt with matching black jeans. He hugs and kisses
Rosie before sitting down. The audience won't stop screaming}
RO: Well hi David.
David Duchovny: Hi (he sits, the audience
still applauding wildly)
RO: Good to see you.
DD: (points to audience) Yeah that's
great! Where is that button? (Rosie starts to press it again then David starts)
RO: Nice isn't it?
DD: Yeah, actually it's my doorbell.
RO: It is? Ha Ha Ha
DD: You know it is because I can't hear
that song enough
RO: Yeah, I'll bet. Do people sing it
to you in the streets?
DD: It's hard to sing, you know, do you
know what the lyrics are?
RO: What are they?
DD: Its funny it's written by this guy
named Mark Snow who does all our songs, all the music for the show. And I
asked him once, what are the lyrics and he said its....(sings to the tune
of the theme)...The X-Files is a show...with music by Mark Snow
RO: Whoa, I didn't know that...
DD: (Sings it again an octave higher)
RO: Catchy isn't it? That's nice. (audience
screams with laughter)
DD: If you ever like, want to sing it
to your children that's how it goes.
RO: Yeah, it's a nice nursery rhyme.
DD: Yeah
RO: I watch the show as you know every
week never miss it. Last two Sundays, totally confused.
DD: Uh huh
RO: Explain to me David, first of all
you had that scary one with the girls with their eyes burned out with extra
limbs and you know what? That made me nautious it ruined my whole dinner
of chicken wings and blue cheese. I couldn't finish my meal, and then last
week the guys spraying the money, he's a bad guy, he's a good guy, You're
almost killed, you're not killed then you leave there's a car waiting for
you but wasn't he...what's happening?
DD: I have no idea.
RO: You don't know?
DD: I really don't know and what I'm
terrified of is that you're gonna ask me to do some fractions (in reference
to an earlier segment, Rosie and audience laughs)
RO: I would never do that to you.
DD: I'd actually rather explain that
to you then do those fractions. Its all..what we always say is setting up
the movie. You know its this big conspiracy there's like bio weapons involved
now I don't know if you've been reading the paper but there's scares of the
Russians bio weapons being leaked. Ever since the Soviet Union has broke
apart, you know so its all the shadow conspiracy....I have no idea what I'm
talking about.
RO: Now before you..
DD: I think you carry the one, multiply
by three (audience laughs)
RO: Before you got the series were you
ever interested in conspiracy things?
DD: Well my Dad wrote a play called the
Trial of Lee Henry Oswald which was and this was actually on Broadway, for
three days.
RO: Wow, what a long run.
DD: Yeah it's a record of some kind.
It was if Oswald had lived, if he hadn't been shot, the trial basically,
so he was kind of a conspiracy buff and I uh inherited some of that, but
not actively.
RO: Yeah, are you happy that your character
is sort of changing, he used to be totally believed in but not..the theories
he believed in.
DD: Well it's the 5th year you gotta
think of something.
RO: Think of something right?
DD: Something gotta change, he's probably
gonna start cross-dressing soon.
RO: Which you did so well on Gary Shandling.
DD: I didn't cross dress
RO: I thought you were a cross dresser
on there, you were a cross dresser on something we had a...
DD: My pants might have been a little
loose but I don't know.
RO: Don't we have a clip of you in drag?
DD: That was from Twin Peaks
RO: (holds up picture) Here you go look
at you as a Barbie doll.
DD: Yeah
RO: Is this exciting for you? This is
the real thing, they're having The X-Files Barbie and ken.
DD: Oh its uh.. I haven't seen this and
uh I believe they've recycled the Chris O'Donnel doll and they've recycled
it from Batman and Robin. It looks exactly...it looks like Chris O'Donnel.
RO: A little bit, yeah.
DD: But when they send you the stuff
they send a prototype doll and a place for comments about what's going on
like they'll say 'nose is too big' 'hair isn't right' and you take it personally
because you don't know if they're talking about the doll or you.
DD: So I wrote back and said I'm not
sure what you mean about the nose being too big if you mean it's the doll
or me, I prefer my doll to have a better nose then mine, I mean why not?
You know. I liked your doll the last time I was here.
RO: We have one in the back if you would
like one.
DD: Yeah I would
RO: I might have a Barbie. They're gonna
make a normal sized Barbie
DD: Yeah that's nice
RO: They're gonna bring in the prototype
we'll see. Big tummy, double chin, it'll be nice.
RO: Now I understand that in the movie,
that I'm gonna see opening day...
DD: June 19th
RO: June 19th, that you're NUDE. (audience
goes wild)
DD: Well not nude.
RO: See I know what people want.
DD: Maybe I should be nude
RO: Maybe
DD: Maybe we should go shoot right now
RO: You're not nude? I heard you were
DD: Well I flash a little butt, its totally
gratuative. (audience laughs) Which is the way I like it because I hate when
actors say I'll only do nudity if it's absolutely necessary. But when is
it necessary in a movie, you know what I'm saying? Unless your playing Adam
and Eve, I mean its necessary, I had to eat lunch nude cause my character
was, so I don't really understand it totally gratuative, totally, I'm in
a hospital and I'm wearing one of these hospital gowns so I get up out of
my hospital bed and there's my sick, tired, rear end, you know.
RO: Owww
DD: So It's gratuative and ugly at the
same time.
RO: It's like an NYPD nude scene.
DD: I don't wanna say anything about
it.
RO: Alright. Now congratulations. First
of all on your show getting moved to LA, you were suppose to be up there
for the pilot and you were up there for five years in Vancouver
DD: Well when you sign a contract to
do a show and they don't tell you its gonna shoot so far away from home.
Every year it keeps getting farther and farther away.
RO: I think its great and congratulations
on your year anniversary which is today, how bout that? (David smiles proudly)
RO: It's teacher appreciation week, favorite
teacher?
DD: My mother and sister are both teachers,
neither of them taught me, my mother would sub for me occasionally and we
were just talking back stage about how we would, well when your mom is a
teacher you would really have to be bad it was good that my mother wasn't
a regular teacher because I would have dropped out, I had to smoke in class
and do something when my mom was there.
RO: For your image
DD: To prove that I was a little man.
DD: Well I had a teacher in HS, my Latin
teacher who was actually a very strong influence on me I was kinda a good
student and he was one guy who wanted to get through my successful cover
to see if I was really as good as I seemed to be or if I needed help. His
name was James Rogers he's dead now but he was a good teacher.
RO: Makes a difference to you when teachers
take that extra time and they try to find out what's going on
DD: Well you don't spend that all that
much time with your kids and your kids can put up a front. Everybody needs
help from time to time, its good to check in and find out and he did
RO: Well that's good
RO: David, I enjoy the show and can't
wait for the movie
DD: I wish I could have explained it
to you. I can't tell you anything about the movie.
RO: It's a top secret thing.
DD: Yeah
RO: I don't care if I don't get it, sometimes
I have little X-Files parties on Sunday night and I kick everybody out after
10 o clock, people look to me because I'm sorta the X-Files expert and people
ask what's going on and I'm like...(makes a noise)
DD: do think you're choking or it's the
chicken wings?
RO: Exactly, my favorite episode is the
mask, the one with Cher
DD: That was nice wasn't it?
RO: That was sweet, very innovative,
the show, on Sunday night and the 19th go with me to see the movie, I'll
be in line at the Sony movie theatre. Thank you David.
