David Duchovny is looking back at a pivotal moment in his career. In an appearance on Literally! With Rob Lowe on Wednesday (March 31), the actor revealed that he considered turning down The X-Files pilot. “I had gotten… a couple of scenes in this movie of the week, and it was a director who I was friendly with, and I was going to have to…pull out of that part to do The X-Files pilot,” he told Rob. “I said to my agents, ‘I don’t want to do that.
You know, she’s a friend, and I don’t want to pull out.’” He added, “X-Files, this is about extraterrestrials. How long can it go?
It’s a good pilot but you’re either going to see the aliens or [not].” “I wasn’t interested in conspiracy theories,” David said, “and I was perfectly willing to just
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