David Duchovny interview: The star talks about Californication, writers block and a third X-Files movie
October 21, 2009 by Jillian Cohan
Interviews with Californication star David Duchovny always seem to bounce from the sacred to the profane in about two steps.
The Yale-educated star often laces esoteric academic language with f-bombs and graphic sexual imagery. His recent chat with The Daily Beast was no exception.
DD dropped observations like this one, about how critical society is:
“We all participate daily in this shaming of the exiles and deifying of the leaders. We care about perception because we’re all utilizing human consciousness; we aren’t loners—we don’t live alone as animals—so it’s written into our genes in a way.”
Duchovny went on to say that the rare …read more
David Duchovny on the cover of Men’s Health’s Best Life magazine
August 8, 2008 by Jillian Cohan
David Duchovny, among his other promotional efforts for the X-Files movie, sat down with a reporter from Best Life magazine for the cover story. It’s a decent celeb profile, if at times lapsing into the cliches of the genre (restaurant setting, with guests lowering their voices to overhear what the star has to say; references to the star’s storybook existence with his hot wife; tales of how his outsiderdom in high school fueled his creativity now).
It also gives us some insight into how Duchovny views his character on Californication, a show that the article notes “is really just a commentary …read more


