Lolita Pettitfleur Los Angeles/Revista Cinerama

Actor David Duchovny is one of the most brilliant and funny persons you can find among Hollywood celebrities. He doesn't hesitate in calling things by their name or joking at every available opportunity, even if the subject is his fight with the producers of the show that made him famous, TXF. But first and foremost, Duchovny is a gentleman. Married to actress Téa Leoni, with whom he has a daughter, the actors puts aside TV to concentrate in his big screen career. His next movie, RTM, in which heartthrob Duchovny is Minnie Driver's love object premieres this month in Spain.

Q: The scene where your first wife dies seems difficult to play, also it has great impact on the screen.

David: A: I tried to remember when I auditioned for ER and I couldn't get in because I wasn't dramatic enough (laughs). That's a joke. I never auditioned for ER. That type of scene requires tricks, skills, art... however you want to call it. Any emotional issue helps to shoot those scenes. I try to remember a moment and a place that evoques those same feelings in me. It's a real challenge and I hope it is something interesting for the viewers.

Q:Are you an organ donor?

David: Yes. I still haven't donated any (laughs), but obviously my wife, at some time, will have to do it for me.

Q: What was that attracted you to RTM to encourage you to take part of it?

David: Most than all, the kind of innocence that permeates the story, which is also well combined with humor. That's why I thought it could be an interesting script. If you could see it as just a fairy tale, then it would be funny. The problem is when it is a real story. I have never seen a movie like this, which talks directly about a social issue with humor and romanticism. I even feel smart after taking part in this movie.

Q: How was the experience of working with Minnie Driver?

David: Minnie is a very good actress and I really liked the thought of working with her. It is always a pleasure to have in front of you a beatiful woman who is also a good actress. She has lots of talent and she is a professional, who knows very well how to work with other actors. For me, as an actor, it is very important to have around me people who knows how to behave. When you are doing a movie, you are inside a mixer with a other people's feelings and prides. Sometimes the atmosphere isn't sane, however that wasn't the case in this movie, and less than all with Minnie.Q:And with Bonnie Hunt, the director?

David: We are friends since we met doing Beethoven in 1990 and I'm very proud that Bonnie as an artist was able to write, direct and also act in RTM. As an actor you have to believe in the director, and being for the first time behind the cameras it's not easy. However, she knew perfectly what she was doing at any given time. As a person who has directed himself, I can tell you that's not an easy thing to do. The movie you are going to see is the movie Bonnie wanted to do and, believe me, it is very difficult to put in images the vision you have in your mind.

Q: People in Europe know you more for your character on TXF. Is this movie more akind to your personality?

David: I don't know if it is more like me or not. I believe that, as an actor, the fun is to express different versions of your personality, even those that don't exist. You tend to make them up with other people's experiences, depending of the character and the plot.

Q:Why do you have a fame of being serious when you are so funny?

David:I don't know. People always get surprised when they discover that I'm funny and I think this will be the case until I die. I realized that certain actors have an image, like the first impression of what they are - and what in reality they aren't - and their whole life they deal with it. For example, Jim Carrey will deal forever with being funny. People don't know that he can be really good in the emotional and dramatic field. Or Tom Cruise, who will have to deal with the image some people have that he can't act. And that because he started as a teen idol. In my case I have to deal with my image of being serious, because people don't know I can be funny and, in fact, I have been funny the last 5 years. But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. If I'm funny? I'm fuckingly funny.

Q:Your character and Minnie Driver's character are joined by an inner faith. Do you believe that kind of relationships exist?

David:I believe it is something that can happen. But it is something more than faith: they fell they were connected before. It is definitively a movie where the protagonists win the lotery of love. The strange thing is that those things can happen, there is something in the universe that cause them to happen. You can be sitting at the theater and suddenly, there is something inside you letting you know that besides you is the woman of your life. Who knows why those things happen? It's strange for my to answer this kind of questions because it is something that happens in the movie, but I don't understand it myself.

Q: But do you believe it can happen?

David: I believe it could happen. I believe in ET: it could come to earth and talk to a child, and there seem people don't a have a problem with that. So, why would I have it? And if you don't have problems with ET, Why would you have problems with my character, a man who falls in love with the woman who has his first wife's heart? ET OK , Mission to Mars OK... well, RTM is also OK.

Q: Could you say the same about yourself?.

David: Of course. Look, there are no interpretations out there. Nobody plans anything: it is only good luck and finding the right time, magical things can happen and awful things too. That's all. I believe it's chaotic that human beings want to believe there is a plan for everything. When we think "This is what is supposed to happen", it makes us believe we are in a safer place and, this way, there is no opportunity to fight or comment because, happens it or not, I won't have to do something that don't makes sense.

Transcribed by Shara :)