David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson remember drifting apart during ‘The X-Files’ years: “There was a lot of tension”

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have opened up about working on The X-Files and how they drifted apart.The duo starred in the Fox sci-fi series together as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in 11 seasons as well as two spin-off films.But on the latest episode of his Lemonada Mediapodcast Fail Better, Duchovny said it got to a point where the pair drifted apart off-screen during the show’s original nine-season run from 1993 to 2002.“There was a long time, working on the show, where we were just not even dealing with one another off-camera,” he recalled.“And there was a lot of tension.

Which didn’t matter, apparently, for the work cause we’re both fucking crazy, I guess. We could just go out there and do what we needed to do.”“That is kinda crazy,” Anderson agreed. “I mean, it’s crazy that we were able to present on camera, you know, the various feelings and emotions and attraction and all that kind of stuff, but then not speak to each other for weeks at a time.”Duchovny suggested that it may have helped with the on-screen performance, adding: “Because we’re, like, savin’ it up.

I don’t know. But I could’ve handled myself better, you know? And as you know, we went through a crazy-making kind of a process with this thing.“We went from – I mean, I was pretty inexperienced.