Interviewed by Simon Mayo of Radio One

SM: It's Minnie Driver and David Duchovny, welcome to the show first of all.

Minnie Driver: Hello.

David Duchovny: Hey

Simon Mayo: Minnie you've been on here before and

Minnie Driver Oh yes

Simon Mayo: And David you haven't. And when we spoke to you last you left us with a bit of a cliffhanging situation because you were having troubles with your neighbour

Minnie Driver:Yes

Simon Mayo: Now because, it was this very funny thing because you'd just bought a new house and uh, the wrong photograph had been put in HELLO! Magazine or something.

Minnie Driver:Which was really good because no-one knows where I live now so

Simon Mayo: This is Minnie Driver's new house and it wasn't.

Minnie Driver:It was, it was really horrid orange paint round the windows. And I'm glad people don't know where I live but I want them to know I don't like orange paint on my windows.

Simon Mayo: But you did throw a thunderbolt at the end of the interview(You'll find out later) on your neighbour who was causing you all kinds of grief.

Minnie Driver:It's a really good punch line. He moved, he did.

Simon Mayo: Oh he moved. [MD deep laugh!] None of which is remotely relevant at all to your new movie, which is Return to Me. You will not explain please

Minnie Driver:David over to you. [MD laugh]

David Duchovny: That was your part? [MD laugh] It a very sweet romantic comedy about a man, a chap who looses his wife in a tragic accident, very funny isn't!

Simon Mayo: Yeah, it's a hoot so far.

David Duchovny: And um, and it's about a character played by MD, who needs a heart transplant and it gets funnier and she gets

Minnie Driver:[laughs] God, oh.

David Duchovny:my wife's heart. That all happens early on in the film so the high drama, the melodrama you might say, happens in the first 10 to 15 minutes and then it does get very funny.

Simon Mayo: Ok and everyone kinda knows how its going to finish then, so you spend most of the film knowing what's going to happen and it's just

David Duchovny: Absolutely.

Minnie Driver:But that's like any, I think any great romantic comedy. You see the two people who you've seen on the poster and it's like oh I know they're going to get together, its just how long it takes them to get together and what the sort of journey is and how interesting it is and how much want them to be together, So I think that's the formula of romantic comedies and often you're just bored to tears.

David Duchovny: How they get over the obstacles

Minnie Driver:Yes exactly, what obstacles are posed.

Simon Mayo: It's obviously down to the plot and the script and so on but an awful lot of it is down to the chemistry between the two leading players which are you two. So Minnie give us a couple of lines on David, what was he like to work with?

Minnie Driver:David's really funny, David's wickedly funny and

David Duchovny: I'm drinking so I'm not speaking.

Simon Mayo: Ok

David Duchovny: So I'm showing you this

Minnie Driver:He's showing you this, it isn't a ventriloquist act, that David isn't actually throwing his voice. He's very funny.

Simon Mayo: You're dribbling now David.

Minnie Driver:Can you upstage me when you're not even talking, It's unbelievable. [laughs] He's really annoying is what he is.

David Duchovny: We had a really good time. We enjoy each other and

Simon Mayo: Ok David give us a few lines on Minnie.

David Duchovny:[laughs] You know, I always, I always apologise to Minnie after I talk about her [MD laughs] because I always say that she's really professional and

Minnie Driver:Which is what you say about people when you like, you really don't like them [laughs] Very professional.

David Duchovny: Say about them or you say it about your dog, you know he's really well[MD laughs]

Minnie Driver:I don't mind being a god

Simon Mayo: Ok we're talking to..

David Duchovny: Or when you're drinking you

Minnie Driver:Oy! Steady! Steady!

David Duchovny: Or when you're sober, almost the entire

Minnie Driver:OY! [all laugh] Almost may be the operative word [MD laughs]

Simon Mayo: We haven't had to bleep the interview at all yet because we had bleep...bleep [MD laughs] because Minnie did the most bleeped interview that we've done.

David Duchovny: Really?

Minnie Driver:Did I really?

Simon Mayo: Yeah, it was great.

Minnie Driver:Oh my god, I've got a mouth like a sewer.

David Duchovny: You don't have a mouth like a sewer.

Minnie Driver:I think I do

David Duchovny: No you don't.

Simon Mayo: At this point we'll leave the interview

Simon Mayo: ok well gods of the week this week, David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Well I think you did but it was the wholethat's why the interview was good, because you were saying what you felt. You were talking about your neighbour and you, you laid into him,

Minnie Driver:He really pissed me off.

David Duchovny: Was he a bloody git?

Minnie Driver:He was a bloody git David, is exactly what is was.

David Duchovny: Can you say, can you say that on radio?

Simon Mayo: Dunno, let's ask the producer. George?

George : Yeah

Minnie Driver:Can you say git George?

George : yeah, absolutely.

Simon Mayo: It wasn't git,

Minnie Driver:You can say git can't you? GIT!

David Duchovny: That something

Simon Mayo: I don't think git was the problem.

David Duchovny: Tosser, can you say tosser?

Simon Mayo: Yeah I think so, yeah well ok, this is a swearing class here. [DD luahgs]

David Duchovny: It's your language, I'm just learning it.

Simon Mayo: Ok, now we just had over here apologies for the compulsory X-files question but we just had the episode over here where, on SKY, where we found out what happened to your sister.

David Duchovny: mm,mmn

Simon Mayo: Yeah? And ok, the papers have been reporting, and I foundusually at this point of the interview that everything in the papers is completely wrong but my understanding is

David Duchovny: NO!! (very sarcastically!)

Simon Mayo: That you have signed up for another series but you're not going to be in all of them?

David Duchovny: I'll be in at the most, [pause], half, between 6 and 11 episodes.

Simon Mayo: How can they do any without you though?

Minnie Driver:I'm gonna be in it. [DD laughs] In his place, I'm going to be wearing

David Duchovny: It's going to be like Shakespeare in Love

Minnie Driver:I'm going to beI'm going to be

David Duchovny: She's going to be playing a male

Minnie Driver:I'm going to be Muldy.

David Duchovny: She's going to play Mulder

Minnie Driver:[laughs] a female

David Duchovny: A female impersonator of Mulder

Simon Mayo: Now, but from some of the quotes I read, you sound as though you're not particularly keen on doing some more? You've been a bit rude about it recently?

David Duchovny: RUDE? No I'm just being honest. You know it's seven years of doing the same thing and ah, it doesn't leave me anytime to do anything else. I mean I was lucky enough that this film shot 5 days after I finished the years work on the X-files and ended 3 days before I went back and I've got a wife and a family now. I wanna do other work so I can't spend all my time doing the XF.

Simon Mayo: One option that's been suggested

David Duchovny: Is that rude?

Simon Mayo: No, no, I don't think so.

David Duchovny: Ok

Simon Mayo: But when the TV series finished that a bit like Star trek, you just keep on doing movies? Would there be another XF movie somewhere there?

David Duchovny: I think there will be, um, I would prefer that the TV show ended and we just did a movie every now and then but no, what I want doesn't really matter.

Simon Mayo: What do we see you in next Minnie?

Minnie Driver:It's a film called Beautiful that Sally Field directored that my sister and I produced.

Simon Mayo: That you got your sister Kate to produce it?

David Duchovny: When's it out?

Minnie Driver:September. Yeah, yes with a few other people, it wasn't solely

David Duchovny: The lovely Kate Driver

Minnie Driver:The lovely Kate Driver

Simon Mayo: Now Minnie you did the God of the Week questions before?

Minnie Driver:I did.

Simon Mayo: Yeah, do you want to ease him into it?

Minnie Driver:The God, the God of the Week, you get to chuck a thunderbolt at anybody that you want to. You get to canonize someone (make them the same)?

Simon Mayo: Yeah.

Minnie Driver:You get to, what's the other one? Who would you want on your cloud?

Simon Mayo: Yeah, anyone's company.

Minnie Driver:With you.

Simon Mayo: This is being set up by7 Minnie.

Minnie Driver:Umm and what's

Simon Mayo: If you could perform any miracle

Minnie Driver: And f you could perform any miracle I mean it's a bit on the sport isn't it but

Simon Mayo: You can just say forget about David if you want.

David Duchovny: Yeah, I'm gonna let Minnie do it if she wants to do it again.

Minnie Driver:Uhh.

David Duchovny: I'll help, I'll yell from the sidelines

Minnie Driver:Oh God, this is so unfair because it's right,

David Duchovny: What's the question?

Minnie Driver:Who would you want on your cloud with you?

Simon Mayo: Who's company would you have?

Minnie Driver:I said my dog last time

Simon Mayo: yeah you did.

Minnie Driver: I immediately thought my dog again. I still want him on my cloud.

Simon Mayo: Woody Allen chose his dog so you can choose a dog thing so,

Minnie Driver:I think, I'd probably would, I probably choose my dog and a piano

Simon Mayo: You ok with Minnie's dog?

David Duchovny: On my cloud?

Simon Mayo: Yeah?

David Duchovny: Can I have my dog on my cloud?

Minnie Driver: There you go.

Simon Mayo: Sure

David Duchovny: Minnie can you now,

Minnie Driver:Alright thunderbolt?

Simon Mayo: Right you thunder bolted your neighbour who has now moved so it clearly works. [DD laughs]

Minnie Driver:It does work, it does work.

David Duchovny: Dangerous, danger, danger

Minnie Driver:I'm not, I'm really, I'm really trying to think of some

David Duchovny: Somebody who's harmless and can't get you back?

Minnie Driver:I'd canonize Jeff Buckley.

David Duchovny: What a surprise.

Simon Mayo: The singer?

Minnie Driver:Yes.

Simon Mayo: Do you wanna pass on the thunderbolt?

David Duchovny: You think about another one and I'll think about the thunderbolt.

Simon Mayo: You do the miracle

Minnie Driver:Ok, the miracle would be if David can come up with some decent thunderbolt. MD sighs and then laughs.

Simon Mayo: There's a man tapping his watch, he's getting very cross. [MD laughs]

Minnie Driver:This is a really ropey God of the Week, I'm sorry Simon.

Simon Mayo: No, it's not, it's just good to have you both on the show.

David Duchovny: Ropey?

Minnie Driver:Yeah, dodgy.

David Duchovny: Lovely!

Simon Mayo: Uh, David and Minnie thank you very much indeed for coming on the show

Minnie Driver:Alright.

Simon Mayo: RTM opens tomorrow

David Duchovny: Tomorrow, Tomorrow.

Simon Mayo: Doesn't it David?

David Duchovny: Yes, tomorrow!

Simon Mayo: Doesn't it Minnie?

Minnie Driver:Yes, tomorrow.

David Duchovny: I tell you, it's only a few hours away. [DD laughs]

Simon Mayo: Thanks for your time guys.

Minnie Driver:Thank you.