David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson pose on the red carpet prior to the world premiere of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
The actress looks pregnant, while the actor looks bored. Or, well, stoned.
As The X-Files: I Want to Believe gets closer to its release date, the film's two stars are making the publicity rounds.
Earlier this week, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson spoke with Dark Horizons about getting back into the roles they made so famous.
Question: Can you talk about getting back into these characters after a five or six year period?
Duchovny: Well, I had two weeks before Christmas of basically running around and chasing Callum Rennie who plays the running bad guy that I chase all over the place. That took a good two full weeks of running even though I know it's only about ten seconds in the movie and then Gillian and I started working on it after Christmas break.
The first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn't really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film.
Mulder and Scully are back in The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Anderson: I had a similar experience. This feels so weird. Summertime. I didn't have all the running around that David had to do, but I did have my own unfortunate beginning which was starting with one of the most difficult scenes for Scully in the film where it's later on in the script and she goes through a range of emotions in confronting Billy Connolly's character. I just had a really hard time for those first couple of days.
I had a really hard time just finding her, finding her voice. I think I must've gone through ten other characters in the process of trying to get to her when I had assumed that I would be able to show up on the first day and it would just be there. It wasn't until I think day three when we got to work together, not just necessarily in a familiar environment which it really wasn't, but in the environment of each other and the relationship and that it kind of felt natural and familiar and I felt like I'd landed this time.
In a recent profile of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Gillian Anderson told MoviesOnline that the return to Dana Scully was not as simple as she'd been assuming it would be.
"On the first day of shooting, I was pretty confident about returning to the role," Anderson said. "I am usually terrified when I start a project, but that wasn't the case with this one."
However, the challenge of slipping back into a character Anderson thought she'd abandoned years ago quickly became immediately apparent.
"I had a really difficult first couple of days [of shooting the film]. I was having a really hard time finding Scully's voice, and I think part of that is because since the show ended, I've been doing everything in my power to take on roles that were very different from Scully.
The work I've been doing [since the show ended] has involved creating new characters from scratch."
The actress, does, of course, find her voice again as Scully. You can see her doing so when The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens on July 25.
Gillian Anderson - who return to the big screen in July in The X-Files: I Want to Believe - will star in and produce a biopic of Martha Gellhorn.
This real-life female war correspondent covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and weathered difficulty in personal relationships that included a failed marriage to Ernest Hemingway.
Anderson will portray Gellhorn.
