Carson: I'm back and joined by David Duchovny here, everybody. How cool is this? "Return to Me" is the movie.
David: Thank you.
Carson: Out Friday. How are you? Thanks for taking the time here....
David: (shakes Carson's hand) Hold the mic in the left and shake with right.
Carson: I know you are nuts doing the junket but we appreciate you swingin' by our little show here.
David: (looking outside) Nice to be here. Nice view.
Carson: What do you think? You've never been here before.
David: I've from Manhattan but never on this floor with this view and and certainly there weren't this many people down there when I did it... or that view right there. (camera shot of model on billboard)
Carson: I don't know who she is.
David: This is not a bad- you will.
Carson: We see her ass every day. It's kind of a part of the show.
David: So if you ever see her you'll go, "Wait a minute, I know you from.. oh excuse me, sorry."
Carson: We had your co-star, Minnie Driver, last week and we asked her.. her favorite kiss, her favorite on-screen kiss.
David: Right.
Carson: Kinda hoping that she would say you..
David: I'm kinda hoping she did. What did she say?
Carson: She said John Cusack. (David bends over) Don't take it out on me, David.
David: In my defense, we had kind of a nice innocent little chaste kiss, so we didn't really, you know... that's my only defense, really.
Carson: Is there a professional kiss that you recall-
David: That I liked? (laughs)
Carson: Yeah, that you liked.
David: Um, gosh, there have been so many.
Carson: So many, right?
David: I can't distinguish between the professional ones and the real ones anymore, so...
Carson: It's all a blur.
David: Yeah, it's all a blur. I think Mimi Rogers, way back in The Rapture. That was really nice. But Minnie was quite nice.
Carson: Very tall. David plays a guy named Bob in this movie, Return to Me. Tell us about... you are a widower, just go through sorta the plot and fate brings you together with Grace, played by Minnie Driver. Tell us what is going on with that and how you guys sort of cross paths.
David: The big set-up of the film is that I lose my wife in the first few minutes of the film who I'm in love with very much, and Minnie, at the same time living in Chicago, the same city, we don't know each other, but she needs a heart transplant so she actually gets my dead wife's heart. About a year later, I run into Minnie, and it's love at first sight for reasons we never really figure out but they have something to do with the heart and with whatever love at first sight happens to be. And you know we'll end up together from the beginning but it is the pleasure of watching it on screen is what the movie is all about.
Carson: Cool. We'll talk about that. And a lot of songs have been written about David Duchovny or The X-Files. From the Barenaked Ladies to Bree Sharp, and...
David: I don't know if you saw me perform with the Barenaked Ladies...
Carson: No, I missed that
David: Yeah, on the Tonight Show. I played the egg. I'm a good egg player.
Carson: You rocked it! They were in the mosh pit, watching you.
David: I got so excited during the guitar solo that I had to be led to my mic stand.
Carson: That's the business of rock 'n roll. There's a mention of your life in this next video, number 7. Watch the Bloodhound Gang and "Bad Touch" at 7 with David Duchovny on TRL! [cheering] (Bloodhound Gang video plays)
Carson: All right, we were just pointing to a couple of guys outside, running around Broadway. That's what the show is all about, David.
David: Are they making an X? (laughs)
Carson: A huge fan. Not much more time, let's talk to Elyssa in California.
Elyssa (calling in): Hello?
Carson: How are you?
Elyssa: Hi Carson and David!
David: Hi! How are ya?
Elyssa: I'm cool. So happy to be talking to you!
David: Oh, me, too. [laughter]
Elyssa: I have every episode of The X-Files taped on video.
David: I'm sorry.
Elyssa: What's so bad about that? I think it's a great thing!
David: I know.
Elyssa: Okay, I have a question to ask you.
David: Go ahead.
Elyssa: If you don't come back next season, next year for X-Files, do you think they'll kill off your character?
David: Um, if they don't kill him, I think they'll hurt him really badly [laughter]
Elyssa: Thank you so much for answering my question!
David: All right, thank you.
Carson: Thanks. Minnie said she would be on an episode sometime in April.
David: Yes. I wrote and directed an episode with Gary Shandling and my wife Tea in it. There's a movie about the X-Files in the tv show and Gary plays Mulder and Tea plays Scully. And Minnie is just one of the famous people at the premiere of the movie. Minnie plays Minnie.
Carson: Awesome. Well, thanks for stopping by, I know you're nuts. "Return to Me" is the flick. Check it out Friday.
David: Did I say it was funny? [cheering]
Carson: Thanks to David Duchovny.
