Duchovny: The X Pic Is Out There!
In Connie and Carla, Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette are showgirls who go incognito as drag queens after witnessing a crime. David Duchovny plays Vardalos' confused love interest — he really thinks she's a man. Oddly, though, the X-Files star seems disappointed he didn't land the leading lady's role!
"In Twin Peaks, I [was] the one wearing the wig and the dress, which is what I would've preferred," he says, then concedes, "It's been 15 years since I did [TP]. My ass isn't as good as it used to be, either."
Sadly, his castmates didn't even want Duchovny's advice on how to be dragalicious. "There were real drag queens in the movie," he chuckles. "I'm just a dilettante, a dabbler. I wanted the chance to dress up, dance and sing, but they wouldn't let me."
Speaking of his film career, Duchovny expects to do a second X-Files movie. "I think it definitely will happen," he enthuses. "[X-Files writers] Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz have an idea they like. They keep threatening to tell me, and I wish they would! They're gonna tell me soon. They're just setting about writing it now, and we'll be doing it within the next year."
The X-Files scribes want this next film to include a big-name "actor or actress who can really score in a great thriller-sci-fi role," he adds. "So I hope that takes the [movie] toward the [show's] fans, but also toward new fans at the same time."
