Transcribed by Laura
June 2001
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JS: Please welcome, David Duchovny!

<clapping and cheering>

JS: How are yer?

DD: I'm doing great, thank you.

JS: It is a pleasure to see you because, as you know, I'm not really a fan but um

<audience laughter>

JS: Its still nice to see you….

DD: <pats JS's knee> Nor am I, I have to say….

JS: I appreciate that, thank you. We actually….we worked together…as a matter of fact…..in Los Angeles on the Larry Sanders Show….

DD: Oh?

JS: You were there the same day I was…..

DD: Right, yeah, we didn't actually get to do a scene together unfortunately…

JS: No, that was…but I made that very clear before I joined up!…that I was not gonna…..

<Laughter>

JS: How are you feeling? Are you enjoying yourself, you doing big movies?

DD: Yeah, yeah, I mean I just erm……I need to do something different after eight years of doing the show…..

JS: I'm the same way….I don't like to get that much money and success……..

DD: Yeeeah…….well, you know. You'll see, you'll see after eight years. I'll come back and talk to you after eight years. How many….

JS: You know where I'll be at? I'll still be here doing…... I'll actually be demoted down the dial. I'll be on a Spanish station by the time you come back…

DD: You'll be on Comedy Periphery!

JS: Comedy Suburb! Periphery's a good kind of ….

DD: It's the best. It's a good kind of….

JS: The last episode of the X Files though you kissed Gillian which was…

DD: Yeah…

JS: …..that was where it was all sort of building up to….

DD: I guess, you know, finally. She'd already had my baby so I figured it was time to kiss her. Some weird kind of a time warp there, yeah.

JS: I kissed her in a movie, like 2 years prior to that so its kinda funny that…..

<DD takes up boxing pose - ducking and weaving challenging JS>

DD: Come on!

JS: …..you got my sloppy seconds!…….

DD: Come on

<JS copies the pose - they briefly mock spa over the desk>

JS: Settle down!

JS: How's your baby?

DD: She's fine, she's great!

JS: Is it fun to have a kid, cos we're thinking of doing that….

DD: You should…..

JS: What do you do? can you draw it…..? how do you…..? <hands DD a pencil and paper>

DD: how do you make the baby or how do you take care of the baby?

JS: <coyly> Make it!

DD: Alright……<drawing>

JS: <peers at drawing> OK, what if mine won't reach?

<DD makes as if to sit on the drawing to hide it and then puts it back on the desk between then>

DD: Just give me a call and I'll try to help you out!

JS: Is it weird, do you feel like an adult?

DD: You do, you do. The best thing now, she's 2 years old so we're starting to have, you know, communication Which is great.

JS: Oh, that's nice. Does she speak?

DD: Completely, completely. And you have these great conversations with her, like, I'm from New York so I took her down to where my mother still lives……

JS: Right

DD: ….and I was so happy to bring her to the apartment building. I said "Daddy grew up here" and she has no concept of that ….she doesn't quite get that so I was like…er……"Daddy…."' and 'tiny' is a big word. There's 'tiny' and 'big'. They're obsessed with 'tiny' and 'big' and 'Mommy' and 'Daddy'. Like she took a poop the other day and there was a big piece and a little piece and she was like <pointing> 'Mommy poop' and 'Baby poop. Now you see now that's good…..that's poetic that's beautiful……

JS: That is!

DD: So…..

JS: ….that really is, in some ways. I think I might….

DD: next time you look down into the bowl…

JS: At 38 I'm just happy if anybody from the family shows up….I don't care if it's a crazy uncle…as long as he's in there……

DD: <looking down into a imaginary blowl> Its a whole crowd ….I can't pick out anybody I recognise!

JS I'm sorry, I'm sorry…..<trying to get the conversation back on course> We're talking about the beauty of childhood <gestures to DD> Go back….

DD: So I go to her…you know I'm trying to relate…..so I say….and I use 'tiny', big word - 'tiny'. I go "Daddy tiny boy here". No verbs usually is good, if you use just…….and nothing! She doesn't seem to get it so I thought….you know babies are completely self centred in a wonderful way, you know everything relates to them

JS: Right.

DD: You understand what I'm saying?

JS: Actors are like that as well!

DD: Yeah. So I said, finally, I said "Daddy tiny girl here" <raises eyebrows> and she went like that, just like you just did <points at JS>

JS: You're kidding me!

DD: Daddy tiny…..and she goes "Daddy tiny girl"

JS: Man, that's so sweet!

DD: ….and then like the next day she was there with my mom in the hallway and she goes "Daddy tiny girl here"

JS: well, I can't…….

DD: And my mother goes <pause> "Yes."

JS: I can't tell you how proud I am to see what a big girl you've become! Um….This movie, it looks very funny, Ivan Reitman's hilarious and he directed it.

DD: He's the creator of the whole Ghostbusters/sci-fi comedy genre. This is his return. So its huge.

JS: Its awesome and you're having…..are you at least getting to enjoy yourself though a little bit when you're not doing the films and relaxing with the kids…..?

DD: I haven't gotten to that point yet because I just finished the show and then I'm selling the film…selling like a crazy man……..!

JS: Hey, if you're here……

<DD smiles>

JS: Come on! I know our show is known in the business as 'the caboose' so believe me!

DD: I am selling this show, I am out there naming my daughter's faeces! that's how hard I'm selling this show…..

JS: Well. at least you're not at home earlier going "Do something!" <mimes holding a kid over a potty>

DD: It's a good movie.

JS: ….but its damn good to see you and I know you're tired and I'm happy for you coming by <reaches out to shake hands>

DD: Oh!. <shakes hand> its great to see you.

JS: David Duchovny!. Evolution in the theatres right now!

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Transcript courtesy of Laura.