10 things you didnāt know about David Duchovny
David Duchovny, currently starring on Showtimeās āCalifornicationā but best known for his portrayal of smoldering Fox Mulder on āThe X-Files,ā has so much to promote right now!
We spoke to him in honor of the DVD release of the film āThe TV Set,ā in which he stars, but he also has a film coming out with Halle Berry on Oct. 19 called āThings We Lost in the Fire.ā
We knew a few things about Duchovny before the interview. Heās married to Tea Leoni, he went to Princeton, he has a masterās degree in English from Yale, and he wrote a very academic-sounding thesis called āThe Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckettās Early Novels.ā
So we knew he was smart enough to get into all those places and marry a cool lady, but here are 10 other things we learned.
1. He does not have an iPhone and doesnāt want one. āIām very happy with my Cingular Blackberry. I donāt need a camera. I donāt want a camera. I donāt need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.... Sorry.ā2. He doesnāt Google himself, but he has Googled projects heās been in and doesnāt think itās a good idea. āThat always leads me to see things I should never have seen. Googling yourself is like seeing your parents having sex. Youāre never supposed to see it, and once you see it you canāt get it out of your head.ā3. He recently watched āThe Twilight Zone.ā āI still like āThe Twilight Zone.ā It scares me. I think itās the black and white. My TiVo gives you descriptions of the show, and I just read that the first airdate for that show was 1959. So Iām watching it almost 50 years later. Itās crazy. That to me is the creepiest -- that 50 years later Iām watching it.ā4. Heās reading āTree of Smokeā by Denis Johnson. āI think itās really good, but Iām only in the first 30 to 40 pages, so Iām just kind of entering into the whole consciousness. Heās a great writer.ā5. His last vacation was to the Cape Cod area. āI love it there. Iām from the Northeast, and it was summertime. I had a great trip with the family.ā6. If he didnāt become an actor he would have liked to be a professional athlete. āBut I guess I would have been some kind of prose writer and teacher. Thatās what I thought I was going to do. But I would have wanted to be a basketball player or baseball player. I was good, but it wasnāt a possibility.ā7. He memorizes lines by himself.8. On a health scale of 1 to 10, he puts his diet at a 9. āAs I finish my coffee Ā I do think about it. I think about it from different perspectives -- from my own health and what animals Iām going to think about eating and how they were treated before they were harvested.ā9. He doesnāt play video games. āI have made video games, so Iām a hypocrite.ā10. Heās just as happy behind the camera as he is in front of it. āThey are both a lot of fun. I enjoy them both immensely. I would say I have more of a hunger to be behind it because Iāve done that less. But I love being in front of it too.ā
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