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Date Posted: 12:04:43 09/20/06 Wed
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: An interview with DD
In reply to: detoured 's message, "Found another one..." on 11:00:06 09/06/06 Wed

Found this on the AP Entertainment Wire and thought I'd share:

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bc-duchovny-film(sh)
David Duchovny finds humor in strange places
Scripps Howard News Service
With photo/graphic: SH06I192DUCHOVNY, SH06I193DUCHOVNY
By BETSY PICKLE
Scripps Howard News Service

As FBI special agent Fox Mulder on the long-running Fox television hit ‘‘The X-Files,’’ David Duchovny took aliens seriously, even as he showed great comic timing.
It’s one of his specialties — mining humor from unexpected places.
‘‘My comedy’s a little odd,’’ says Duchovny. After all, his comic training ground was a recurring role as transvestite DEA agent Dennis/Denise Bryson on David Lynch’s ‘‘Twin Peaks.’’
‘‘That was a weird kind of comedy,’’ recalls Duchovny, who tackles a more traditional brand as a sex-starved Mr. Mom in the new romantic comedy-drama ‘‘Trust the Man,’’ now in theaters. Duchovny and Julianne Moore play a married couple going through a rough patch at the same time as her brother (Billy Crudup) and his girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal) do in the film written and directed by Bart Freundlich, Moore’s real-life husband.
Along with his two Emmy nominations for drama on ‘‘The X-Files,’’ Duchovny has earned two Emmy nods for his guest-starring work on the comedies ‘‘The Larry Sanders Show’’ and ‘‘Life With Bonnie.’’ Striking humorous notes on a soundstage alongside such comic talents as Garry Shandling and Bonnie Hunt is one thing. Hitting the beats while shooting a low-budget independent film on a tight schedule in New York is another.
‘‘Pressure doesn’t really help you to be funny,’’ says Duchovny, whose previous romantic comedy outings have included ‘‘Connie and Carla’’ and ‘‘Return to Me.’’ ‘‘The pressure just makes you know that you don’t have all day to find it.’’
Even so, the 46-year-old New York-born actor says he knew when ‘‘it’’ clicked, as in a dinner scene in which he crafted a bit that completed a rollicking moment.
‘‘I said to Bart, ’Just check out what I did there and file it away’ because I just felt so funny,’’’ he says. ‘‘And that became, like, our mantra because it’s like, when you feel funny, it usually is funny. And I felt so funny, and there it is; it’s one of my favorite beats in the movie.’’
Duchovny and Moore also co-starred in the 2001 Ivan Reitman comedy ‘‘Evolution,’’ although they met before that ‘‘in a very Hollywood way’’ when both were guests on ‘‘The Tonight Show.’’ Duchovny met Freundlich when he and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, were attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Freundlich and Moore were seated at the next table.
‘‘Bart says he was kind of eavesdropping on my conversation with my wife, and she went ... to the bathroom, and when she came back I said to her — and I don’t remember this — but he says I said, ’I can’t believe it! You missed it! I won! I won!’ And he said, ’I like that guy.’ ’Cause my wife went, ’Oh no! I can’t believe I missed it!’ ‘‘
Having bonded over one man misleading his wife, Duchovny and Freundlich are a perfect match as collaborators on ‘‘Trust the Man,’’ in which Duchovny’s character is very confused over his relationship with his spouse. The actor says there are pros and cons to making a film with friends.
‘‘In some ways it’s easier because, hopefully, you respect their work,’’ he says by phone from New York. ‘‘Maybe that’s a little bit why you became friends in the first place.
‘‘But, on the other hand, it’s also hard because it’s one thing ... disappointing a stranger. Maybe you’ll see them around town, and you’ll just think, ’Oh, I’m a little embarrassed; I (stank) in that guy’s movie.’ But if it’s your friend, you really don’t want to (stink) in his movie and you’re afraid that he’s not gonna tell you if you do.’’
Duchovny says he liked the script for ‘‘Trust the Man’’ because it called to mind an era when movies were made for grownups.
‘‘What I really liked about it and what I like about it as a finished product was that it had the intelligence of comedies that are romantic from the ’70s, like Woody Allen stuff or ’Where’s Poppa?’ or movies like that,’’ he says. ‘‘And yet it also had this kind of hard edge now suddenly popular from ’Wedding Crashers’ or ’40-Year-Old Virgin.’ ‘‘

(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.shns.com)

AP-NY-09-20-06 1439EDT

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