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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