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  • Gillian Anderson Kisses David Duchovny [Pic]

    Gillian Anderson kissed David Duchovny. And the Internet nearly exploded. Well, that time, and the time they found out about Andre the Giant Cat.

    It’s been a good day to be the Internet.

    The scene of the amorous encounter was The Cutting Room in New York City. David Duchovny was on the stage with his band, singing songs from his debut album Hell or Highwater.

    Presently, Gillian Anderson joined him onstage.

    “Can we play some real music please?” Gillian Anderson joked

    “Is there anything you’re in the mood for?” Mulder asked Scully – er, Gillian Anderson. And Gillian Anderson requested the Neil Young song “Helpless.”

    The two sang together. When they were done, they hugged and kissed. Now if only they could do some more X-Files episodes…

    But, wait! They are doing more X-Files aren’t they? Fox announced that The X-Files will return on Sunday, January 24, at 10 PM. This is just night one of a two-night premiere, which sets the series back up on Mondays for the rest of the six-episode run.

    Maybe this was a warm-up. After all, David duchovny had admitted to being a little nervous about being on the set with Gillian Anderson again.

    “I think I’ll be nervous on the day. When I’m in a scene with Gillian, I think we’ll both be like, this is so weird. And I think we’ve both gotten better as we’ve gotten older, so how do we bring that to bear on these characters? If I were to look back at the first or second year of the show, I wouldn’t try to act like that guy. I’m capable of doing more. She’s capable of doing more. It’ll be interesting to see how we keep the characters the same but also the actors are better.”

  • Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny To Return For “X-Files” Revival

    Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny To Return For “X-Files” Revival

    Gillian Anderson is one busy lady.

    Gillian Anderson has a couple of huge projects coming up for fans to enjoy!

    Of most importance, Gillian Anderson will be returning, with David Duchovny, to Fox for a revival of the incredibly popular show, The X-Files.

    In an annoucement, Fox execs revealed, “The next mind-bending chapter of The X-Files debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 24 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC Championship game, and continuing with its time period premiere on Monday, Jan. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).”

    The statement continued, “The thrilling, six-episode event series, helmed by creator/executive producer Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, marks the momentous return of the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning pop culture phenomenon, which remains one of the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history.”

    So exciting!

    In addition to the long-awaited X-Files continuation, Gillian Anderson will be featured on Hannibal‘s upcoming season as the “bride of Hannibal”, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier.

    Check out this intriguing preview:

    https://youtu.be/lQ4Bn5YuGcE

    Hannibal, besides bringing on Gillian Anderson, stars Hugh Dancy as criminal profiler Will Graham. Graham has the ability to see into the mind of serial killers.

    Mads Mikkelsen stars as a super creepy Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is psychiatrist who is helping with the cases. He is also a serial killer.

    So awesome.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07jbp9iY4o

    With the addition of Gillian Anderson as Hannibal’s love, I just don’t know if this show could possibly get any better.

    And Gillian Anderson’s return as Dana Scully is just too much.

    What do you think about Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s return to The X-Files? Will you be watching?

  • Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny Now Have a Date

    Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are on their way back to the truth.

    Fox has announced that The X-Files much-anticipated six-episode series will hit your television set on Sunday, January 24, at 10 PM. This is just night one of a two-night premiere, which sets the series back up on Mondays for the rest of the six-episode run. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny will be back as Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, respectively, investigating the weird stuff that nobody else wants to touch with a ten-foot pole.

    Chris Carter will joing Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as Executive Producer for the six episodes.

    “I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” Chris Carter said recently. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.”

    David Duchovny had previous told the New York Post that he was on board for the episodes, but beyond that couldn’t tell much.

    “I don’t know much at all,” Duchovny said. “We’re gonna do six episodes. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna begin and end with the mythology. But I really don’t know.”

    He did admit that it might be strange to get back on set with Gillian Anderson in these roles after all this time.

    “I think I’ll be nervous on the day. When I’m in a scene with Gillian, I think we’ll both be like, this is so weird. And I think we’ve both gotten better as we’ve gotten older, so how do we bring that to bear on these characters? If I were to look back at the first or second year of the show, I wouldn’t try to act like that guy. I’m capable of doing more. She’s capable of doing more. It’ll be interesting to see how we keep the characters the same but also the actors are better.”

    While Gillian Anderson has seen loads of success herself in the years since The X-Files originally ran, including the BBC series The Fall, both actors were surprisingly eager to return to the roles that made them famous. But Duchovny a surprising admission about Fox Mulder.

    “The interesting thing about Mulder is nominally he is law enforcement but he never solved one case in nine years. So he’s the worst F.B.I. agent of all time. As F.B.I. agents, I would say we were not by the book. Especially Mulder.”

  • David Duchovny: Working with Gillian Anderson Again Might Be Weird

    David Duchovny is taking the news in stride. Ever since word hit the street that he and X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson will be reuniting for six all-new episodes of The X-Files, fans have been beside themselves.

    “The nerd in me just peed her pants,” one commenter admitted on hearing that the duo were back at it.

    David Duchovny spoke with the New York Times about his upcoming turn on the show that launched both his and Anderson’s careers.

    “The good things are working with Chris and Gillian again, and getting to do this show again and see what we’ve got. I’m as curious as anybody else. I’m amazed that there’s still an appetite for it and I’m touched.”

    When asked whether he was nervous about revisting the show and creative team after all this time, David Duchovny admitted that there could be some oddness, but nothing they couldn’t handle.

    “I think I’ll be nervous on the day. When I’m in a scene with Gillian, I think we’ll both be like, this is so weird. And I think we’ve both gotten better as we’ve gotten older, so how do we bring that to bear on these characters? If I were to look back at the first or second year of the show, I wouldn’t try to act like that guy. I’m capable of doing more. She’s capable of doing more. It’ll be interesting to see how we keep the characters the same but also the actors are better.”

    David Duchovny feels like the time is now right for the X-Files return. He recognizes the influence on other shows and film that the series had, even if some loyal followers were not too pleased with how the show ended.

    “The time is right because we got our [act] together to do it. In terms of culturally or what people want to see, I don’t know. I imagine if we waited too much longer people would eventually lose interest… We’re gonna make the same show. But it’ll be interesting because Gillian and I are older. I don’t want to act like it’s 20 years ago.”

  • Gillian Anderson Dives Back into Sci-Fi, and It’s Not X-Files

    Gillian Anderson can’t seem to outlive her past. She recently told KTLA that her past characters define her even now.

    “I was at a bachelor party last night, and a couple of times I was introduced as ‘Remember the girl from The X-Files?’ So, yeah, I’m ‘the girl from The X-Files.’”

    Wait. Gillian Anderson was at some dude’s bachelor party?

    While she has moved on to do the hugely successful BBC drama The Fall, as well as starring in a hugely successful West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire — a show which has the distinction of being the fastest sellout in the history of the Old Vic theatre — she still has one foot in the past somewhat.

    In fact, Gillian Anderson’s latest film opens today. And it puts her back in familiar territory — sci-fi.

    Called Robot Overlords, the movie is a British family sci-fi film that casts Gillian Anderson as a mother.

    “It’s a lovely family movie; compared to my usual roles I’m frumped down and softer and quirkier,” Gillian Anderson revealed. “I feel like she’s closer to who I am, how I am. I have a tendency to be sillier and more frivolous than I generally get to play.”

    For X-Files fans, this may be as close a taste as they get to seeing Anderson back in Scully territory until the recently-announced mini-series of X-Files episodes actually comes to fruition. Despite her chagrin at being known as “the girl from The X-Files,” both Anderson and Duchovny agreed to join forces again to do the limited run of episodes.

    “I don’t know much at all,” Duchovny told the New York Post. “We’re gonna do six episodes. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna begin and end with the mythology. But I really don’t know.”

  • Gillian Anderson Says Men Are Too Scared To Ask Her On A Date, Stays Single

    Gillian Anderson is yet to give up on love and is seeking the man who will be “brave enough” to ask her on a date.

    The 46-year-old actress shares that she embraces the thought of having a man in her life again although she is happy being on her own.  She reveals that even though she has been married twice – to The X-Files series assistant and art director Clyde Klotz in 1994, and to documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne in 2006 – she almost always had to take the lead on the relationships.

    ‘I’m so lucky to have such great work. I’ve got a fantastic life, I have a wonderful relationship with my kids, and there’s nothing lacking, but I’m leaning towards the idea that it’s time for somebody to be brave enough to ask me out,” Anderson said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

    “I’ve asked out guys in the past. I remember being in the cinema in the States and I made eye contact with a man going in. I noticed we laughed at same points and seemed to respond in the same way to the same moments. We were both with friends, but he caught up with me as we were filing out. Halfway, I stopped and thought ‘What am I doing?’ So I rushed back down the street, went up to him and said ‘Would you like a coffee sometime?’ We dated for six months,” Anderson recounted.

    The The X-Files star enumerates her rules in dating, which excludes married men and toy boys. The idea of another same sex relationship is definitely welcomed as long as it’s “The One”.

    “I believe at this stage of my life, it’s better not to manipulate the situation. If it happens, it happens. What I am sure about is that I want my next relationship to be ‘The One,’” she said.

    Anderson returns as the skeptic Agent Scully with the return of the The X-Files, which will air was a six-part series. After a 13-year break, Anderson will again be playing her role as an FBI agent with on-screen investigating partner David Duchovny as Agent Mulder.

    The 20th Century Fox hit TV series will begin production this summer.

  • David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Returning for Six-Episode ‘X-Files’ Event Series

    David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will return to Fox in The X-Files for a six-episode event series. Fox announced the news, that will no doubt thrill fans of the show, on Tuesday.

    “I think of it as a 13-year commercial break,” the show’s creator and executive producer Chris Carter said in a statement. “The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories.”

    The original sci-fi series, starring both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, ran on Fox for nine seasons, from 1993 to 2002. The show focused on FBI agents Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) as they investigated numerous instances of paranormal activity. The X-Files won 16 Emmy Awards and five Golden Globes during its run.

    “The X-Files was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning,” Fox Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group Dana Walden and Gary Newman said in a statement. “Few shows on television have drawn such dedicated fans as The X-Files, and we’re ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully they’ve been waiting for.”

    It was back in January when Gillian Anderson first hinted at a return to the show.

    “Maybe do something where [Mulder] wakes up from a dream, and he’s been Hank Moody in Mulder’s dream. That was his fantasy,” she said during a podcast.

    Even though a release date for The X-Files six-episode event series hasn’t yet been announced, fans are likely clamoring for more information and blowing up Netflix for past episodes of the show.

    Are you among those who can’t wait to see David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on The X-Files?

  • Tea Leoni Dating ‘Madam Secretary’ Costar Tim Daly

    Actress Tea Leoni has been discreetly dating her Madam Secretary costar Tim Daly since the summer. Leoni also plays his on-screen wife in the CBS political drama.

    The couple was first spotted together over the July 4th holiday, as Daly, 58, performed Red at the Dorset Theatre in Dorset, Vermont. The two were seen offscreen again on November 14, strolling arm in arm in the Venice area of Los Angeles.

    Leoni, 49, finalized her divorce from X-Files and Californication star David Duchovny in August, citing “an irretrievable breakdown.” The two had been married for 17 years, though had been separated since 2011.

    Daly himself divorced his ex-wife of 26 years, Amy Van Nostrand, in 2010.

    Madam Secretary premiered on September 21 to solid reviews, and has steadily risen in ratings. Leoni portrays a former CIA analyst turned college professor who is tapped by the president to become Secretary of State.

    Commenting on her character Elizabeth Faulkner McCord, Leoni told E! in July, “There was something – I adored her. I adored her by page two, there’s no sarcasm to her. Sarcasm is too slow. I want to wake up and be her every day.”

    The former The Naked Truth star added, “I think in a lot of ways it’s inspiring to see women that we want to see. I think when I sort of set out to do this gal, I thought, ‘Who do I want in office?’ That’s been guiding my choices.”

    On the show, Daly plays Henry McCord, a Georgetown ethics professor, prior NSA spy and pilot within the United States Marine Corps.

    The on-screen and off-screen couple appears in a scene in Madam Secretary:

    Commenting on his new girlfriend, who incidentally attended the same Vermont high school as he did, Daly said, “She’s not a whiner. She wants to work hard and she wants to have fun.”

    The former Private Practice star added, “We get along really, really well. We have a really good time. I’ve gotten along with plenty of people, but the chemistry sucked. And I’ve hated people where the chemistry is great. It’s much better if you get along and the chemistry is good. That’s perfect.”

  • Tea Leoni Reportedly Dating Her On-Screen Husband Tim Daly

    Tea Leoni is reportedly dating her on-screen husband Tim Daly.

    Us Weekly reported the news, which must thrill fans of the CBS political drama Madame Secretary.

    “Their chemistry on set is electrifying,” a source told Us of the new couple. “They have an amazing time filming.”

    On Friday, Nov. 14, Leoni, 48, and her new 58-year-old beau were seen strolling down a street in L.A.’s Venice area “with their arms wrapped around each other,” a witness said.

    “They were definitely couple-y,” said the source.

    Daly recently praised his costar and told Collider they ironically went to the same high school in Vermont, although years apart.

    “She’s a person, like me and like a lot of people who have gone to that school…who can be perfectly happy sleeping in a wet sleeping bag on a stone floor, or staying in a fancy hotel,” he said of Leoni.

    “She’s not a whiner. She wants to work hard and she wants to have fun,” he added. “We get along really, really well. We have a really good time. I’ve gotten along with plenty of people, but the chemistry sucked. And I’ve hated people where the chemistry is great. It’s much better if you get along and the chemistry is good. That’s perfect.”

    Leoni’s divorce from ex-husband David Duchovny, with whom she has two children, was finalized in August. The former couple were married for 14 years before announcing their separation in June 2011.

    As for the Private Practice alum, he was married to Amy Van Nostrand from 1982 to 2010. They have two adult children together.

  • Tim Daly Dating ‘Madam Secretary’ Costar Tea Leoni

    Actor Tim Daly has been discreetly dating his Madam Secretary costar Tea Leoni since the summer. Leoni also plays his on-screen wife in the CBS political drama.

    The couple was first spotted together over the July 4th holiday, as Daly, 58, performed Red at the Dorset Theatre in Dorset, Vermont.

    Leoni, 49, finalized her divorce from X-Files and Californication star David Duchovny in August, citing “an irretrievable breakdown.” The two had been married for 17 years, though had been separated since 2011.

    Daly himself divorced his ex-wife of 26 years, Amy Van Nostrand, in 2010.

    Madam Secretary premiered on September 21 to solid reviews, and has steadily risen in ratings. Leoni portrays a former CIA analyst turned college professor who is tapped by the president to become Secretary of State.

    Commenting on her character Elizabeth Faulkner McCord, Leoni told E! in July, “There was something – I adored her. I adored her by page two, there’s no sarcasm to her. Sarcasm is too slow. I want to wake up and be her every day.”

    The former The Naked Truth star added, “I think in a lot of ways it’s inspiring to see women that we want to see. I think when I sort of set out to do this gal, I thought, ‘Who do I want in office?’ That’s been guiding my choices.”

    On the show, Daly plays Henry McCord, a Georgetown ethics professor, prior NSA spy and pilot within the United States Marine Corps.

    The on-screen and off-screen couple discusses Madam Secretary:

    Commenting on his new girlfriend, who incidentally attended the same Vermont high school as he did, Daly said, “She’s not a whiner. She wants to work hard and she wants to have fun.”

    The former Private Practice star added, “We get along really, really well. We have a really good time. I’ve gotten along with plenty of people, but the chemistry sucked. And I’ve hated people where the chemistry is great. It’s much better if you get along and the chemistry is good. That’s perfect.”

  • Tea Leoni on David Duchovny and ‘Madam Secretary’

    Tea Leoni dished recently about her split from X-Files actor David Duchovny as well as about her upcoming CBS show Madam Secretary. Not surprisingly, the two topics even merge.

    It was in Parade magazine that Leoni opened up about at least some of her feelings about the father of her children.

    “Listen, David gave me the two greatest gifts on the planet; I don’t know how I could ever hate him,” she says. “We’ve always loved each other, and we adore these kids. … I’m not playing stupid—I understand feelings can get hurt and things can get icky. We’ve had our moments like that. But these kids are too important, and he feels the same way, I know it. He’s a good guy.”

    The actress still bears a wedding band tattoo she got back in 2007 on her ring finger. It matches one David Duchovny still sports, too.

    She says their kids have tried playing one parent against the other from time to time, but they put their collective feet down immediately.

    “There was that brief moment when the kids said, ‘Oh, I can work a scam on you here and him over there,’ and we were like, ‘News flash—no!’” Tea Leoni explained.

    “Tea and I had a long time together; we’ll always be connected and there for each other,” David Duchovny says of the mother of his children. He also added that he had no doubt that Madam Secretary was a good fit for his soon-to-be ex-wife (Tea filed for divorce this past June–the couple has been separated since 2011).

    Duchovny says Tea “committed to it right away. She usually takes a long time to consider things from all angles.”

    Tea Leoni hopes Madam Secretary will pique people’s interest in how the government works.

    “I’m sorry that young people aren’t ­ignited by politics, that it’s a dirty word. My daughter is interested in the stalemate in Congress; she says, ‘So neither side budges and that’s it? We don’t do anything?’ Making a case and negotiating—that’s what we want to do in the show. Wouldn’t compromise and agreement be great things to promote?”

    Sometimes raising kids in a divorced household can be akin to the inner workings of the government. It sounds like Tea Leoni and David Duchovny are on top of their dynamic duo–at least for now. Maybe by the time the kids are really pulling the wool over on Mom and Dad, her experience in Madam Secretary will have taught her a thing or two she can use in the ongoing parenting battle.

    Madam Secretary premieres on Sunday evening, September 21st on CBS.

  • David Duchovny & Téa Leoni Divorce; Did Cheating Destroy Their Marriage?

    Actor-director David Duchovny and actress Téa Leoni officially ended their 17 years of marriage in divorce. Recent reports confirm that the couple had been separated for a few months before they brought their divorce papers to court in June. Duchovny filed the papers which cite “an irretrievable breakdown” as the reason for the split.

    The celebrity couple has been going through rocky times for a long while, and has been officially separated twice. Their first separation in 2008 was attributed to Duchovny’s highly publicized sex addiction for which he received therapy. They got back together after a couple of months but separated again in 2011. Other reports claimed that they both have been party to cheating and dishonesty. Californication star Duchovny has been linked with X-Files costar Gillian Anderson and Deep Impact lead actress Leoni reportedly left her kids to follow Billy Bob Thornton and his band on tour some time ago.

    Duchovny, 54 and Leoni, 48, first met through a pre-interview dinner organized by The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. They got married in May 1997 after an eight week courtship. They have two children, a daughter, Madelaine West, 15, and a son, Kyd Miller , who is now 12.

    The couple has apparently settled on the terms of the divorce themselves. According to reports, they share joint legal custody of their children, although Leoni will have primary physical custody. The ex-couple and their children currently live in Manhattan.

    Duchovny is expected to give $8,333 a month in child support, as well as pay for other expenses like camp and private school fees and college tuition. Leoni, who returns to CBS’ Madame Secretary this fall, will also receive $40,000 monthly in spousal support.

    The LA Times tried to contact both the actor and the actress’s representatives for comments. Their request for a direct comment, however, was not granted.

  • Gillian Anderson Releases Excerpt From New Book

    Add published author to Gillian Anderson’s resume. The X-Files actress has just released an excerpt from her new science-fiction book A Vision of Fire. Anderson wrote the book with New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin.

    Here’s the synopsis for the book:

    Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father—a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels—but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts, Caitlin begins to think that there’s a more sinister force at work.

    In Haiti, a student claws at her throat, drowning on dry land. In Iran, a boy suddenly and inexplicably sets himself on fire. Animals, too, are acting irrationally, from rats in New York City to birds in South America to ordinary house pets. With Asia on the cusp of nuclear war, Caitlin must race across the globe to uncover the mystical links among these seemingly unrelated incidents in order to save her patient—and perhaps the world.

    Anderson wanted to create a protagonist that she could relate to, “I wanted a very strong female character, around my age. I would want to read something like that and I think other women would like to read.”

    You will have to wait until October to read A Vision of Fire. However, readers can see a sample of the work on the Simon451 Fall 2014 Preview Sampler. The Sampler can be accessed via Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iBookstore, Amazon Kindle, and the Google Play Store.

    Anderson and X-Files co-star David Duchovny recently sparked rumors during a Reddit AMA forum that another X-Files movie was possibly in the works. Duchovny stated, “I think Chris (creator Chris Carter) is working on a script. Chris is shooting a pilot right now, so he might not be working on a script, but he claims to be working on a script, and if he does do that and Fox wants to make it … Gillian will do it, I will do it, so start your writing campaign now. Seriously. We’d all love to do it. The ball is in Fox’s hands. And not Fox Mulder, Fox the studio.”

    Anderson is currently starring as Blanche DuBois in Young Vic’s production of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny Dating Rumors True or Just Wishful Thinking?

    Few who witnessed the chemistry between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on the X-Files can deny the idea of the alien-fighting duo getting together hasn’t crossed their minds now that Duchovny’s divorce from Téa Leoni is final.

    But are rumors of them together now true?

    Duchovny and Leoni have been on-again, off-again for the last six years. The couple were married in 1997 but split amidst Duchovny’s sexual addiction struggles that led the Aquarius actor to enter rehab in 2008.

    They reunited, split again in 2011 and finally divorced quietly in June.

    Immediately following the divorce, rumors emerged that Duchovny, 54, and Anderson, 46, were dating, but Duchovny denied the two were involved.

    Neither Duchovny nor Anderson has confirmed any romantic ties, but witnesses allegedly saw Anderson leaving Duchovny’s apartment a few weeks ago.

    Anderson has conceded that the alien-fighting co-stars have thought about a relationship, but any opportunity to unite may have slipped away.

    “Well now that it is over I can tell you… No. It’s a nice idea, but it’s not going to happen,” Anderson told HuffPostLive. “I think we know each other too well, we know each other better than our spouses at any time when we may have had spouses. There is an attraction… maybe even more than a [friend] attraction… but anyways.”

    Anderson herself is very quick to open up about her private life. In March, she revealed that she is bi-sexual, but has denied anything more than a great friendship between herself and the Californication star.

    Duchovny and his ex-wife will share legal custody of their 12-year-old son, Kyd Miller, and 15-year-old daughter, Madelaine West, although they will reside with the 48-year-old actress. Duchovny’s financial responsibiliies include $40K per month in spousal support and more than $8K per month in child support, as well as other expenses including summer camp, private school and college.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Are Officially Divorced

    David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are officially divorced.

    The couple quietly finalized their divorce in June and reports are only now emerging about the end of the couple’s marriage. According to TMZ, who broke the story, the divorce was filed in June and the two settled all the terms themselves.

    It was Duchovny, 54, who filed for the divorce, citing an irretrievable breakdown of the relationship.

    The couple will share legal custody of their 12-year-old son, Kyd Miller, and 15-year-old daughter, Madelaine West, although they will reside with the 48-year-old actress. The Califonication star owns a nearby apartment in the Upper West Side of New York City, so he will remain close to the kids.

    Duchovny will reportedly pay $40K per month in spousal support and $8,333 per month in child support, as well as other expenses including summer camp, private school and college.

    The couple met at The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and married in 1997. They separated in 2008 when Duchovny was treated for sex addiction, and after a reconciliation following his rehab stint, they separated once again in 2011.

    Duchovny will continue to keep busy with work. With the end of Californication on HBO, the The X-Files alum will return to broadcast television this fall with the NBC series Aquarius.

    “After being involved in the production of both The X-Files and Californication, it gives me great pleasure to work with David Duchovny for the third time on this compelling drama,” said Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, of Duchovny’s casting in the new series that centers around Charles Manson.

    As for Leoni, she will return to television starring as Secretary of State Elizabeth Faulkner McCord in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • David Duchovny Defends Russian Beer Ad

    David Duchovny Defends Russian Beer Ad

    Actor David Duchovny recently defended a controversial Russian beer commercial he stars in, telling TMZ that he does not support Russian policy of late, especially the invasion of Ukraine.

    In the Sibirskaia Korona ad, which runs over two minutes long, Duchovny muses about how his life might have turned out if he was born in Russia instead of the United States. “This is the country where I was born and raised,” Duchovny says at the start of the rather epic video, adding, “But there is another country, where I got my family name from. And sometimes I wonder: What if things turned out differently? What if I were Russian?”

    Various little vignettes depict the actor as a ballet coach, a cosmonaut, a mullet-wearing bassist in a pop rock band and a hockey player missing a tooth.

    Yet, fans became a bit riled over the ad, especially after the recent downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 by pro-Russia separatists. Duchovny commented, “I am proud of my Russian, Ukrainian, Scottish and Polish heritage as I am proud of my American heritage.”

    The Sibirskaia Korona commercial spot:

    Duchovny adds, “But being proud of one’s ancestry is not a political statement on any current government or public policies.”

    The reaction to the commercial has been mixed on Twitter:

    Duchovny insists the beer commercial is not a political statement – “In retrospect, and in light of recent tragic events, I can now see the potential for misunderstanding and hope people will understand.”

    The former X-Files star recently completed a seven-season run on the Showtime hit dramedy Californication, and will appear in the new NBC police drama Aquarius. Duchovny will play a 1960s police sergeant investigating budding cult leader Charles Manson.

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  • Tea Leoni Returning to Televison, Gets OK from Kids

    Actress Tea Leoni will be returning to the small screen to star as Secretary of State Elizabeth Faulkner McCord, in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.

    Madam Secretary, which will run after “60 Minutes” and before “The Good Wife” on Sundays, premieres on September 21. Leoni, 49, portrays a former CIA analyst turned college professor who is tapped by the president to become Secretary of State.

    Commenting on her character McCord, Leoni told E!, “There was something – I adored her. I adored her by page two, there’s no sarcasm to her. Sarcasm is too slow. I want to wake up and be her every day.”

    The former The Naked Truth star added, “I think in a lot of ways it’s inspiring to see women that we want to see. I think when I sort of set out to do this gal, I thought, ‘Who do I want in office?’ That’s been guiding my choices.”

    Here is a first look at Madam Secretary:

    Barbara Hall, who was a writer-producer for Judging Amy, and is presently a co-executive producer on Showtime’s Homeland, is the creator and executive producer of Madam Secretary, alongside Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman. Hall commented that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is excited about the series, and has met with Leoni. “She’s very eager to weigh in and help us,” Hall remarked.

    Hall added that Madam Secretary is adapted from real events and will attempt to “pull back the curtain on how the State Department works.”

    Leoni, who is presently separated from husband David Duchovny, said that her children gave her the “go-ahead” to get back into a television gig.

    “I turned to my 12-year-old son and I said, ‘It’s going to be a little tricky. I’m not going to be around as much. Are you cool with that?’” Leoni said, adding, “He said, ‘Yeah, I was getting kind of sick of you.’”

    Madam Secretary also stars Tim Daly and Bebe Neuwirth.

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  • David Duchovny Signs On For NBC Drama About Charles Manson

    David Duchovny has been seen in a handful of films, but perhaps he will always be known as a television actor. As one show ends, another will begin, and he is finally returning to broadcast television, years after The X-Files ended.

    He gained his initial fame as FBI Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and for the past seven years, he has played the constantly drunk, and sex-crazed author, Hank Moody on Californication.

    Chairman of NBC Entertainment Robert Greenblatt said of his casting that “After being involved in the production of both The X-Files and Californication, it gives me great pleasure to work with David Duchovny for the third time on this compelling drama.”

    The series is called Aquarius, and has been given a 13-episode series order before shooting its pilot. However, the show is also being billed as an event series, and may only last for one season. It is similar to what is being done with 24: Live Another Day, and NBC is also bringing back Heroes in a way with an event series called Heroes: Reborn.

    In his return to broadcast television, Duchovny will play a Los Angeles police sergeant who is tracking the infamous cult leader recruiting young women for his “cause,” who has become infamously known as Charles Manson.

    According to NBC, “The twists and turns of a complicated undercover operation will lead Duchovny’s character and his young partner to the brink of Manson’s crimes that will eventually lead to the Tate-LaBianca murders in subsequent seasons.”

    Despite ordering people to commit multiple murders, the tale of Charles Manson has continually sparked interest in people in a similar way to someone like Hannibal Lecter. At the end of the investigation, Manson was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and he is currently serving a life sentence in Corcoran State Prison in California.

    Aquarius will be set in the late 1960’s, a few years before Charles Manson was caught, and feature a thrilling pursuit of the infamous criminal. Duchovny feels that the show has a chance to be special, and looks forward to getting started with it.

    David Duchovny, who has received Golden Globe nominations for both Californication and The X-Files, has booked his next gig following the seventh and final season of his showtime hit. Season seven of Californication will begin on April 13.

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  • Gillian Anderson Poses Nude with Eel

    Hannibal star Gillian Anderson posed nude with a big eel of the Conger variety, in protest of depleting Euro fish populations, per the Fishlove movement.

    According to its website, Fishlove was established in 2009 by Nicholas Röhl, co-owner of MOSHIMO, and actress Greta Scacchi to raise awareness of the unsustainable fishing practices that are destroying the the earth’s marine ecosystem. Other nude Fishlove models that have posed for photographers Rankin, Alan Gelati and Denis Rouvre include Sir Ben Kingsley, Olivia Williams and Jeri Hall.

    Fishlove’s latest petition reads, “Amazing animals that live in the deep ocean are being systematically destroyed by massive fishing nets that catch or crush everything in their path. But in days, the European Parliament could vote to protect one of the world’s most precious deep-sea habitats, and we need to give them the public mandate to do it. On December 10th, Members of the European Parliament can vote to ban the most destructive forms of deep-sea fishing in the Northeast Atlantic…Let’s make sure they have what they need before this historical vote! If we come together right now to raise our voices – we can ensure one of the most wonderful ocean habitats in the world is protected. Sign the petition right now and share this with everyone.”

    Here’s Anderson admiring her eel pic:

    Incidentally, Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels, which includes some of the longest varieties of eels, with the European species reaching 10 feet. Conger eels are a tad vicious as well, as diver Jimmy Griffin can attest to – In July, a Conger bit a chunk out of his face, as he was diving about 75 feet down near the west coast of Ireland.

    In related news, Anderson and her former X-files costar David Duchovny have recently suggested that they would be okay with doing another X-files film, during a celebration of the 20 year reunion of the X-files pilot.

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  • Gillian Anderson And David Duchovny, More X-Files?

    Gillian Anderson, along with her former co-star on the popular television series The X-Files, have said that they would open to the idea of doing another film. The pair have already teamed up for two films following the conclusion of the series, The X-Files and The X-Files: I Want To Believe, but it looks like the pair of actors might be wanting to give their fans more.

    They got together on Saturday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series’ premiere. Anderson and Duchovny participated in a panel discussion at the Paley Center For Media as well as the Comic Con conference over the weekend, which both took place in New York. The actors spent a lot of time promoting the franchise over the weekend as well, a hint that maybe a movie will be in the near future for fans.

    The show ran from 1993 until 2002, and Anderson played agent Dana Scully. Both she and agent Fox Mulder were agents of the FBI, but they had one key difference, the fact that Mulder was a believer of the paranormal and Scully was not. Together, they would investigate paranormal cases, which even led to alien conspiracies within the government. It was also rumored that the actors were a couple on the show, after much sexual tension throughout the franchise.

    Gillian Anderson has also said that if fans want another film, then they should let their voices be heard. Duchovny also showed his support for the project when saying, “Gillian and I want to do it, so it’s really up to 20th Century Fox at this point.” The show was very popular during the time that it aired, and fans of the series should get excited for what is to come. The reception for the last film was disappointing, and many people felt that the franchise had lost its own plot.

    The writer for the series, Chris Carter, has also expressed interest in the third film, despite legal issues that delayed the last film.

    Upon Gillian Anderson’s suggestion, hopefully enough fans will make their voices heard, and allow the third film to be made. Who wouldn’t love to see another X Files film? In an age where much of the population likes to binge on Netflix watching, it is likely that the series has gained many fans since the release of their last two films as well.

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  • David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Spark Rumors

    David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Spark Rumors

    The truth is out there. It was a fanboy’s dream. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, you may know them better of course as Mulder and Scully, both participated in a 20th Anniversary X-Files Panel in New York City. The popular mis-matched FBI duo agreed to answer questions for reddit’s Ask Me Anything forum.

    It’s been over a decade since the uber-popular Fox science-fiction drama went off the air. And since that time, two X-Files films have been made. The first in 1998, simply called X Files and the second one X Files: I Want to Believe was made ten years later in 2008. But could there be a third X Files film on the way?

    When asked about the possibility of a third movie, Duchovny may have fueled the fire, “I think Chris is working on a script. Chris is shooting a pilot right now, so he might not be working on a script, but he claims to be working on a script, and if he does do that and Fox wants to make it … Gillian will do it, I will do it, so start your writing campaign now. Seriously. We’d all love to do it. The ball is in Fox’s hands. And not Fox Mulder, Fox the studio.”

    The pair sat for almost two hours and answered fan’s questions about any and every aspect of the show. Does Duchovny actually believe in aliens? He responded, “Odds are we are not alone.” And how about Anderson, “It wouldn’t surprise me. It’s just the fact of it. The universe is bigger than big.”

    The X-Files ran on the Fox network for nine seasons. Although, it may have began as a cult show, the intriguing paranormal storylines and the “will they or won’t they” sexual chemistry between Mulder and Scully turned the show into a water-cooler crowd-pleaser.

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