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David Duchovny sits down for a wide-ranging fan Q&A covering acting, writing, directing, and music—with fresh updates on a new Amazon series (“Malice,” coming next month), a feature script he’ll act in this February, and a new album (“Friends of Pieces,” due February).
Highlights:
One creative thread: why he shifts between novels, poetry, acting, directing, and music—and how each form changes the expression.
What’s next: Amazon’s Malice, an untitled feature he wrote and will star in, and the album Friends of Pieces.
The X-Files legacy: why the show endures across generations, tone shifts from horror to comedy, and credit to the writers for sustaining Mulder & Scully’s tension.
Feature film era: shooting the first X-Files movie between seasons and grinding through nonstop schedules.
Directing “The Unnatural”: the day one shoot with Darren McGavin, why that footage never aired, and recasting with M. Emmet Walsh.
Favorite lines: short beats he still signs (“Trust No 1.”), and why he avoids long quotes on autographs.
Californication & Aquarius: chasing 70s-style comedy, balancing humor with heartbreak, and playing a cop moving through a changing 60s culture.
Podcast chats: conversations about failure and how setbacks can end up being the best thing.
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Please welcome the legendary David
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Company.
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[Applause]
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After you sir,
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you have brought some great excitement
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to Space Con, I must say. So, thank you.
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Thank you.
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How does it feel to be out here? Great.
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Feels great to see all of you. Thank
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you.
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[Music]
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I wish I could see all of you, but it is
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great to I feel
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it's a real pleasure to have you here.
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Thank you so much. Uh you have had such
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a you know eclectic career in
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entertainment as an actor, writer,
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director and musician. Uh I want to know
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like when you look back do you see a
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common thread connecting you know all
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these creative outlets?
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Uh I don't know. I I I guess it's just
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I've always been looking for ways to
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express what I feel or what I see or
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what I think and it just takes different
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forms at different times I guess is uh
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ways seem to happen and each form
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whether it's writing novels or poetry or
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acting or directing or making music they
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change the expression a little bit. So
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each time you go through it kind of
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changes you as you change it.
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We have a lot of questions here. There's
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a lot going on. Yeah. Uh before we get
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to it, one common question I saw is
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before we go backwards a little bit,
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like what are some upcoming projects?
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What are you working on right now? I
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have a uh show that's coming out on
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Amazon uh next month called Malice. And
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then uh yeah, it's kind of a thriller.
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It's kind of a thriller. White Lotusy
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kind of a vibe. And then um I've written
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a script that I'll be shooting in in
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February. Um which I'm not going to I'm
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not going to say the name of it yet, but
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uh that's going to be good. I I'll act
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in it. I won't direct it, but I wrote
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the script and I'll act on it.
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Well, that's exciting. We love seeing
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anything he does. Right.
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I have an I have an album from the album
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and
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music people are always loud. Hey, don't
2:18
let the music people drown you out.
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Sci-fi fans, come on.
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Let's get Let's get a healthy
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competition going here. Um yeah, an
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album coming out in I believe February
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and that'll be called Prince of Pieces.
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Oh, that that's super exciting. What do
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you think when you have you look at this
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crowd see it here you have fans from
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different parts of your your output of
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creativity. How does that feel same you
2:44
know your music fan to your TV and film
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fans all under one roof? Feels great. I
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mean I like to take you with me
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everywhere I go.
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Well look that size bus that ran along.
2:58
You know going back you know we got a
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lot of XFiles fans here right?
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But that's so surprising. You never
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imagined, you know, this would still be
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part of pop culture decades later and
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it's going to be centuries later.
3:14
Everyone's still going to be talking
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XFiles.
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I mean, I if you would have told me that
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way back when, I would have been
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surprised or I would have said there's
3:23
no there's no way that that would that
3:26
would last. But, you know, since it
3:27
since it lasted 20 years, then I
3:30
thought, oh, it's going to it's going to
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keep going. So, I I'm no longer
3:34
surprised. It just feels like, you know,
3:35
people grew up with it and then when
3:38
they had kids, they introduced their I
3:40
mean a lot of people today who
3:41
introduced their kids to the XFiles,
3:43
which I don't know how wise that is, but
3:45
they
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they get in. There's there's some people
3:49
that watch California with their kids
3:51
and I
3:53
I also question the wisdom of that. But
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uh it I think uh X no honestly I think
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XFiles is something that's kind of fun
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to pass on from generation to generation
4:04
just as you know I just saw George Tai
4:07
you know Sulu and I I grew up with Star
4:10
Trek so I I I still sometimes watch um
4:15
you know the the reruns of the the
4:17
original Star Trek so I I imagine that
4:20
that kind of nonsense is going on with
4:23
the XFiles as well.
4:25
You just spoke about some things you
4:27
grew up watching. What's something that
4:28
you've been, you know, maybe in the last
4:30
couple years, maybe a film or show
4:31
you've been indulging in and really
4:33
enjoying lately?
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Well, I watched the The Great British
4:37
Bake Off.
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Although, I can't say I can watch it in
4:42
reruns. You know, doesn't really bear
4:45
repeat viewings. Um, what do I I just
4:49
watched Task on HBO.
4:53
You got Tom over there. I see him.
4:57
I was able to uh interview Tom Pelry and
5:00
meet Tom on on the Fail Better, the
5:02
podcast that I do. And
5:05
there you go. The podcast folks, they're
5:08
quieter. They're quiet. But Tom is
5:12
amazing in task and uh it it was really
5:17
it was really a pleasure to interview
5:18
him as well. Well, since I'm sitting
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here, you mentioned your podcast, which
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I really enjoy personally myself, and
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it's a really great one. You know, what
5:25
what tip maybe you can give someone like
5:26
me about having these conversations with
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such amazing people that have
5:30
interesting, you know, backtories and
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and what they have created also over
5:33
time. I I don't give any tips. I think
5:35
that's one of the problems with the
5:37
world we live in. It's like I'm not an
5:38
expert. I'm just talking to people about
5:40
how maybe they navigated failure or just
5:43
the idea of failure period. Because in
5:45
many ways, failure can often be the best
5:48
thing that ever happens to somebody. So
5:50
that that usually comes across in the
5:51
interview is that, oh, what I thought
5:52
was the worst thing that happened to me
5:54
was actually the best thing. No, that's
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fantastic. It's a it's a fabulous
5:57
podcast and so I highly recommend
5:59
everyone check it out. Um, I want to
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know like what's one lesson from those
6:02
early TV set, you know, days that still
6:05
shapes how you approach your work today?
6:08
Early lessons from
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Yeah. your early time on on television.
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Um,
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you know, I was just Anthony Hopkins has
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a uh a autobiography or memoir out. It's
6:20
coming out right now. And I was reading
6:22
little excerpts from it. And he he said
6:24
how he just memorizes the words really
6:28
really deeply. He the words, the words,
6:30
the words. And when you're working in
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television, especially back then when we
6:35
were doing 25 episodes a year and trying
6:37
to shoot a whole show in 8 days, it was
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a lot of words. And it really I I was
6:43
kind of drowning in the words until I I
6:46
figured out yes, it's in the words. It's
6:47
in the words. It's in the words. And so
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I always go back to that. I I like to
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know my stuff backwards and forwards. I
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like to commit it to deep memory and
6:56
then speak it as if I'm speaking it for
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the first time. So I go back to just
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preparation. Uh you have to prepare when
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you're shooting that much of a show
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every day. And uh I I love preparing,
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you know. I love doing the homework and
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then showing up and feeling free.
7:13
When it came to uh you know the XFiles
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legacy, what do you think really gave
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the show a timeless edge and that still
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resonates today and people are
7:23
re-watching it for the 100th time or
7:25
just watching it for the first time and
7:26
just getting addicted to it?
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Yeah, I think um
7:32
there's really that that sense of
7:34
extreme possibilities. There's the sense
7:36
of wonder. There's the sense of more
7:39
being out there than we understand or uh
7:42
all this kind of uh you know I always
7:45
thought it was almost like a hopefulness
7:47
even if there was a lot of scary [ __ ]
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and you know it was a thriller in many
7:51
aspects but there was just that hope
7:54
that there was more to the world than
7:55
meets the eye and I think that that that
7:59
will always be there that will always be
8:01
a place for that kind of a show for that
8:03
kind of a sense.
8:05
Have your own beliefs about the
8:06
unexplained changed since diving into
8:09
that world?
8:09
Have I what?
8:10
Has your own beliefs about the
8:12
unexplained changed since diving into
8:14
that world of exile?
8:15
No, I'm really I'm really dense. I'm
8:17
very thickheaded. It's hard to influence
8:20
me in any way. I think I know what I
8:22
know and it's hard for me to learn
8:24
anything there.
8:27
when they said they wanted to do, you
8:29
know, a a feature film of X Files and
8:31
you got that news, were you surprised
8:32
that they wanted to kind of go into onto
8:34
the big screens on the small screens,
8:36
the big screen for X Files? Yeah, it was
8:37
a different time. You know, that was a
8:39
different time. Um, so yeah, it was
8:42
surprising, but you know, he's in the
8:43
works for
8:45
probably since we started doing the
8:46
fourth year and we shot we shot between
8:48
the fourth and the fifth year, I think.
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Uh, so it just became that became a very
8:53
odd year for me because it was I think
8:56
we must have done like 25 episodes then
8:58
we shot the movie and then we did
9:00
another 24 episodes or something. It was
9:02
just probably two straight years of
9:04
shooting Fox Moulder without a break. It
9:07
was very odd kind of two years.
9:10
We have one question here from Lucas. Is
9:13
Lucas close?
9:14
We just have one question.
9:16
We have one question right here. He
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wants to know, "What's your favorite
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behind thescenes story from filming X
9:22
Files that I've heard or that I
9:24
participated in?"
9:27
Um, my favorite behind the scenes story,
9:31
you know what, Lucas, it was it was
9:32
quite a while ago. It's hard to
9:34
remember. I should have prepared. I
9:36
should cuz this is a question I knew I
9:38
was going to get asked, right?
9:40
Uh, I'm going to come back to you after
9:42
the next question.
9:46
This might be it. This is my favorite
9:49
behind thescenes story where
9:52
where I get asked a question like that
9:53
and I totally blank out and I disappoint
9:55
every one of the audi
10:01
wedgie or something like that which
10:04
never happened but it rhymes. So I think
10:06
it should have happened. The next time
10:08
you see Mitchi I think you should give
10:10
him a wedgie.
10:13
Going back to, you know, the the X-Mile
10:15
films, what type of conversations
10:16
conversations do you have with Chris
10:18
Carter about grounding, you know, the
10:20
different tones? Because I felt like
10:22
there was something different when it
10:23
came to Well, the show had a lot of lot
10:26
of different tones. So, uh, it was every
10:29
week, uh, there were you tonal shifts,
10:33
you know, it could go from being a
10:34
thriller to being a straightup horror
10:36
show to being a comedy to being somewhat
10:39
of a love story or a relationship uh,
10:42
show. So there was always these tonal
10:44
shifts that we had to navigate with
10:46
whatever director was directing that
10:48
episode, whether it was like the Darren
10:50
Morgan episodes which were more comedic,
10:52
the Morgan and Wong episodes were more
10:55
horror or Chris which was kind of the
10:57
conspiracy ongoing kind of mythology
11:00
stuff. So it was always always a
11:02
challenge but that was the fun part of
11:04
the show for an actor just to be able to
11:06
exist in these different kind of
11:08
scenarios and tones. And there's
11:11
obviously no X Files without Jillian
11:13
Anderson.
11:18
Was that maybe like Lightning in a
11:20
Bottle teaming all up together? What was
11:21
something about that partnership that
11:23
fans may not know?
11:26
What don't they know? Um,
11:32
I think, you know, uh, Jillian and I get
11:34
a lot of credit for that relationship,
11:36
but I think what what people
11:41
don't really acknowledge is is how much
11:43
care the writers put into sustaining
11:46
that kind of uh, platonic relationship
11:50
for so many years. It's it's ridiculous
11:53
and difficult when you think back on it.
11:55
It's like how I don't watch Grey's
11:57
Anatomy, but I imagine everybody is kind
11:59
of having sex on that show. I mean, am I
12:02
right? Right. So, I mean, a soap opera.
12:05
That's what you do. And we're among, you
12:09
know, we're we're a sci-fi show. We're a
12:11
realistic show, but we're also kind of a
12:12
soap opera. and and for the writers to
12:15
be able to maintain that kind of tension
12:18
and without it without it making no
12:20
sense was kind of a real balancing act
12:24
and a testament to Chris Carter and
12:25
others to to write that kind of you know
12:29
the Shakespeare in sense marriage of
12:30
true minds that these were best friends
12:33
and you know will they won't they and to
12:36
keep people interested in that for so
12:38
long I think you know Jillian and I can
12:40
take credit for it but I think it's
12:42
better if we just nod to the writers who
12:44
really kind of kept that balancing guy.
12:53
We have one question here. No name on
12:55
this one, but they are asking how much
12:57
did you enjoy the experience of
12:59
directing
13:00
uh an episode of the XFiles?
13:04
Um, well, the first the first episode
13:06
that I directed was the first time I'd
13:08
ever directed anything. So, I was I was
13:11
terrified and uh and just eyes wide open
13:16
and trying to learn as much as I could.
13:17
But, we we had such a great crew and
13:20
such a great um machine that was going
13:23
to make sure that that I didn't fail
13:26
that I felt very uh protected uh going
13:30
into that. So, um I think what what some
13:33
people don't know is that
13:36
uh I I had written this episode called
13:39
The Unnatural for Darren McGavin
13:43
uh Colchack the Night Star actor who uh
13:48
Colchack was an inspiration for Chris
13:51
Carter creating the X Files cuz he
13:54
looked at TV and he said there's no
13:55
scary show like this out there right
13:57
now. So Darren had been established as a
14:00
character on the show. It's kind of a
14:02
premolder molder and I had written this
14:05
part for Darren because knowing I was
14:09
going to direct, I thought I should be
14:11
light in the episode so that I could
14:13
concentrate on directing and I would
14:15
just exist in maybe three or four scenes
14:17
as my character molder. And then um we
14:21
shot one day with Darren McGavan, the
14:24
first day I ever shot as a director. and
14:26
the next day he was he was ill and um he
14:31
couldn't he couldn't come back to work
14:33
and then uh he couldn't come back to
14:35
work at all and sadly Darren um passed
14:38
away shortly shortly after that. So, um
14:44
I don't know why I'm telling you this
14:45
sad behind thescenes story, but
14:49
um my first day of uh as a director was
14:53
I was lucky enough to have Darren
14:54
McGavin on set and that was footage that
14:58
has never aired because Darren couldn't
15:01
come back and then we cast Emmen Walsh
15:05
uh to replace him. So that's that's who
15:07
the character is in the uh in the
15:10
episode. But um Darren was a wonderful
15:13
actor and a great got to work with him
15:16
earlier when his character was uh
15:19
established and uh we miss him and uh so
15:22
that's a little a sadder behind the
15:24
scenes story of uh of what had happened.
15:27
That's Yeah, that was my first directing
15:29
day.
15:30
[Applause]
15:34
Is that what the directing club happened
15:36
for you? No, I was I've been wanting to
15:39
direct for a while. U but I did love I
15:42
did love writing and and directing on
15:44
the X-Files. I loved writing for the
15:46
XFiles. It was a great it was such a
15:49
great setup and such great characters
15:51
and the voices those established voices
15:54
of Boulder and Scully and and Skinner
15:56
and all those great characters. It was a
15:59
pleasure to kind of plug into that and
16:02
try to write your own story.
16:05
A question here uh from Tony or Tori. Is
16:09
Tori here?
16:11
Tori.
16:11
Tori's back there. She's standing way
16:13
back.
16:15
She wants to know, "Do you have a do you
16:16
have a favorite line or story part?"
16:19
My favorite line.
16:21
I like I love lines.
16:24
My favorite line or story part? I'll
16:27
tell you what's not my favorite line are
16:29
these ones that I have to sign that are
16:31
really super long.
16:34
So I don't My favorite line is not
16:36
nobody down here but the FBI is most
16:39
unwarranted.
16:41
Not my favorite line.
16:44
Truth is out there. Not sure I ever said
16:47
that.
16:49
Trust no one is nice. Short trust no
16:52
one. Especially number one. Trust number
16:55
one.
16:58
My favorite line.
16:59
[Applause]
17:01
Sorry.
17:04
I mean I I don't remember that many.
17:06
What's yours? Yell it out.
17:09
[Applause]
17:13
But
17:14
I heard Skully, it's me. Uh, you know,
17:18
it's a good It's like
17:22
as a writer, I'm like, "Okay, well, it's
17:24
like Skully. It's me." I mean, I guess
17:26
it does the job, doesn't it? Not very
17:29
poetic. Anybody else favorite lines that
17:32
are short or maybe long? Just memorize.
17:35
[Applause]
17:39
Are you ready?
17:41
You hear any of them, but we'll take
17:43
whatever they say. Great lines.
17:47
I know it's hard to see in this in this
17:49
in this mixed crowd of ages, we won't go
17:51
into California very long.
17:55
Before we do jump over there, uh I want
17:57
to ask if you were writing or directing
17:59
an X Files film today, what kind of
18:02
story would you want to tell in our
18:03
modern world? Well, rather than give
18:05
that away, why don't we just say that we
18:07
talk about this all the time, so maybe
18:09
it'll happen.
18:14
That's going to turn for sure.
18:16
Of course, there for the band
18:19
themselves.
18:20
We want to see them back next, right?
18:28
Moving on to Californiaication. Are we
18:31
fans of that?
18:35
uh playing Hoody lets you explore like a
18:37
very human side of, you know, creativity
18:40
and so much more. What initially drew
18:42
you to that?
18:43
I've been looking to do uh comedy. After
18:46
coming off The X-Files, I wanted to to
18:49
do more comedies. Uh cuz I've been
18:52
trying to turn the X-Files into a comedy
18:53
for the longest time, unsuccessfully.
18:56
And um although we had we had our funny
18:59
episodes, but um
19:02
I was looking around I grew up watching
19:04
'7s comedies, you know, shampoo movies
19:07
like this, and there was not much comedy
19:08
being done like that in feature films at
19:10
the time. And then the script that Tom
19:12
Capos wrote came my way called
19:14
Californiaation, and I thought, "Oh,
19:16
that's that's the kind of comedy that I
19:18
want to do."
19:20
The show balanced a lot of humor and
19:22
heartbreak as well, really well. Like
19:24
what was that tone tough to maintain
19:27
week after week?
19:29
That was the fun of it. That was that
19:31
was the creative enterprise was
19:33
maintaining that tone. That's the whole
19:35
ball game right there. That's the great
19:37
part. So for me as an actor, I like
19:40
stretching those ways. I like bringing
19:43
the drama into the comedy and the comedy
19:45
into the drama. So that that's all good
19:48
for me. It's not easy, but that's that's
19:50
what we're always thinking about.
19:53
In today, 2025, what would Hank Moody be
19:56
doing?
19:58
He'd be uh speaking to these uh
20:02
writing, podcasting.
20:03
What would he be doing?
20:07
Jeez,
20:09
hard to say. Uh
20:12
he'd be pretty [ __ ] a gasast
20:16
at the world around him.
20:20
Uh you played so many layered roles. I
20:22
want to know which character challenged
20:24
your sense of identity most and which
20:26
one taught you something unexpected.
20:29
[Applause]
20:34
Uh well again I I think we've
20:37
established that I I don't learn
20:38
anything ever so I don't know that I've
20:42
learned stuff. Um,
20:46
I think uh I don't know as I move along
20:50
I I I realize that that bits of me get
20:53
changed or pieces of me get influenced
20:55
by the work that I do, but I'm not
20:57
really aware of it at the time, you
20:58
know. Um, I did I don't know how many
21:02
people watched Aquarius, but I really
21:04
enjoyed taking
21:06
Aquarius.
21:08
Taking a guy who was basically born in
21:11
the teens of of the 20th century.
21:16
Is that about right? Yeah. This is in
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his 40s, in the 60s.
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20s maybe he's born. and taking him
21:23
through the 60s, you know, and and it
21:26
really made me readress kind of that
21:28
whole cultural revolution that we went
21:30
through in the 60s and imagining a guy
21:33
born into one world and then having to
21:36
change coming into another. And then I
21:38
realized that all the characters that
21:39
I'm attracted to are kind of people that
21:41
have to adapt to a world that's changing
21:44
around them. I'm attracted to that as a
21:46
storyteller, but also as an actor. So,
21:50
yeah, I guess I learn I learned that
21:51
about myself.
21:53
In California, there's a lot of, you
21:55
know, grounded kind of comedy. What does
21:58
great comedy say about being human to
22:01
you?
22:04
What does great comedy say about being
22:05
human? Well, I mean, I I think you're
22:07
you're either your reaction to the world
22:10
around is either to laugh or to cry
22:12
usually. So, I prefer to try to laugh.
22:15
And I think that, you know, slipping on
22:17
a banana peel will always be funny. And
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uh the more we realize, you know, we
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think we're we think we're these uh
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ethereal
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uh beings uh full of reason and
22:29
brilliance and then we fall flat on our
22:31
asses. And it that to me is funny. It
22:34
also makes us all in a community
22:36
together. And it's a little like what I
22:38
talk about in fail better, which is we
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all fail. We all fall on our asses and
22:44
we can laugh at it and get up.
22:47
You're also Yeah. Here's a bomb.
22:53
You've written a lot over over the
22:55
years. Uh you've done it so much.
22:57
Sounds like you're saying I've written
22:58
too much.
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No, not enough ever.
23:02
Maybe maybe you should stop writing.
23:04
But is there a certain theme that keeps
23:06
that keeps pulling you back as a
23:08
storyteller that really wants that keeps
23:10
motivating to keep writing? Well, again,
23:12
I think that's something that maybe you
23:14
could figure out if you were doing the
23:15
reading um of the books. It's not
23:19
something that I think about. Uh, but
23:22
like if I were to take a moment and to
23:24
think about what I'm drawn to is pretty
23:26
much what I just said is that I'm draw
23:29
drawn to loss and failure and
23:31
heartbreak, but in laugh and finding the
23:34
laughter through that and finding
23:35
community through that and finding
23:37
brotherhood and sisterhood through that
23:39
and in kind of fighting against
23:42
hypocrisy and arrogance for uh the
23:45
losers, the people who don't always win
23:48
uh this kind of stuff. So I think I come
23:51
to that from parents who who kind of
23:54
instilled that in me. Uh my mother hated
23:57
rich people with a passion. Uh so it was
24:01
kind of like you know like [ __ ] those
24:03
people and uh
24:08
so yeah. So that's where I'm at. Vote
24:11
vote for me.
24:18
Be
24:19
before we wind things down, I want to
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know what first inspired your love of
24:23
songwriting and how did that evolve into
24:25
full-blown albums?
24:28
Well, I grew up always loving music but
24:30
never really playing an instrument. I
24:31
mean, I started playing guitar about 15
24:34
years ago and just realized, you know,
24:37
even though I didn't have a natural
24:39
great singing voice by any stretch of
24:41
the imagination, I could hear melodies
24:43
and I could I I had I came up with
24:45
melodies and lyrics to chord
24:47
progressions. So, I was super surprised
24:50
at this. Um, but all my influences are
24:54
from the 60s and 70s. Uh, but I I wasn't
24:58
like a a musician that could read music
25:00
or or kind of I couldn't rip people off
25:04
because I didn't know how to do it. So,
25:07
if I'm ripping people off, it's all
25:09
unconscious. It's all coming through
25:11
just this very young lover of music
25:15
place which I I really enjoy being in
25:18
that in that moment because you know at
25:20
some point in your life you're an actor
25:22
that becomes your job becomes your
25:25
business and you lose track of that
25:27
young person that really fell in love
25:28
with acting. Uh but falling in love with
25:31
music as a as a creator of music again
25:34
made me fall in love with all creative
25:36
endeavors like a kid again. So, um I
25:41
guess my influences are just, you know,
25:42
the music that I grew up with. Uh uh
25:46
Bele Stones, Mottown, uh Slime Family
25:49
Stone, Tom Petty, Steely Dan, bands like
25:52
this that I grew up with from, you know,
25:54
8 to 20. Uh I wouldn't know how to rip
25:57
them off, but I'm sure it comes out
25:59
unconsciously somewhere. Some great
26:02
experience some inspiration right there.
26:04
Some great artists in the bands. Uh
26:06
finally, I want to end on this note.
26:07
After all these years acting, writing
26:10
and performing, what does creative
26:12
success mean to you now?
26:17
[Music]
26:19
I I think
26:21
it's really a criteria that I have when
26:24
I look at something or hear something or
26:26
read something that I'm involved in or
26:28
that I've done and I know I know when it
26:31
got more than halfway there or I know
26:33
when it's
26:35
good in my in my my estimation of it. uh
26:39
that's the best feeling right okay I
26:41
executed this in a way that was wasn't
26:44
humiliating you know or was beautiful in
26:48
some way and then that's my own personal
26:52
stance towards it and then the next part
26:54
is like if if other people enjoy it and
26:58
if other people continue to enjoy it and
27:01
I always say even if something comes out
27:04
that doesn't get a lot of attention or
27:06
doesn't make a ton of money or it
27:08
doesn't get, you know, a lot of the
27:11
algorithm doesn't pick it up or whatever
27:13
the [ __ ] that is. And um I know it'll
27:18
wait. Sorry.
27:20
I know you can blame me.
27:23
Tell your dad that guy was cursing the
27:26
whole time
27:28
and he didn't tell me a story.
27:31
[Applause]
27:33
[ __ ] that guy.
27:36
Um,
27:39
I always say art is patient and if I do
27:42
something that that I know in my heart
27:45
was executed in a way that was authentic
27:47
and I see its worth and I'm moved by it,
27:50
even if it doesn't do well in the
27:52
moment, I know that it'll stay there.
27:54
It's waiting there. It's a book on a
27:56
shelf. It's something on Hulu or, you
27:59
know, whatever. It's buried somewhere,
28:02
but somebody's going to find it and it's
28:04
worthwhile. So, I know that.
28:08
Yeah. Please
28:10
as we walk on this, I want to thank all
28:13
and see
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[Applause]
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one more time for the coffee.
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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