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Interviewer:  If you’re going to create a TV show that deals week after week with things that are unbelievable, you need an actor who can play a believer, you know, a person who tends to believe everything. Tonight, in our show we have David Duchovny, who has starred in the popular TV series, The X-files. Thanks to his brilliant performance in the TV series, David has become one of the best known figures in the country. Good evening, David, I’m so glad to have you here.
David: It’s my pleasure. Thanks for inviting me on the show.
Interviewer: David, have you often been on radio shows?
David: Oh, yes, quite often. To be frank, I love to be on the show.
Interviewer: Why ?
David: You know, I want to know what people think about the TV series, and about me—y acting, etc.
Interviewer: Ok, David, let’s first talk about the character you played in The X-files. The character, whose name is Mulder, is supposed to be a believer. He deals with those unbelievable, weird and often bizarre things and events. He must be . .. I mean . . . Mulder, someone who really believes in the things he meets, in order to keep on probing into those mysteries.
David: That’s true.  Remember those words said by Mulder? "What is so hard to believe? ... Whose iutensity makes even the most skeptical viewer believe the paranormal and outrageous government conspiracies. With every reason to believe that life in the persistence of it is driving us out of our terrestrial sphere, etc. etc  ....  "
Interviewer: Fabulous! I guess, David, your contribution to the hit series is credibility. Now, let’s talk about your personal experience. From what I road, I know that starting from your childhood, you were always a smart boy, went to the best private schools, accepted at most of the Ivy League colleges. Not bad for a lower middle class kid, from a broken family on New York’s Lower East Side. So imagine mom’s surprise when you, who were on your way to a doctorate at Yale, took a few acting cclasses and got bitten by the bug.
David: You bet. My mother was real surprised when I decided to give up all that in order to become an actor.
Interviewer: Sore. But talking about Mulder, the believer in The X files, what about you, David? Do you believe it all in re al life: the aliens, people from outer space, you know, UFOs, government conspiracies, all the things that the TV series deal with?
David: Well, government conspiracies, I think, are a little far fetched because, I mean, it’s very hard for me to keep a secret with a friend of mine, and you’re gonna tell me that all entire government is gonna come together and hide the aliens from us? I find that hard to believe. In terms of aliens, I think that tile odds are, there must be.
Interviewer: But you could believe in aliens?
David: Oh, yeah.
Interviewer: The character you played in The X-files, Fox Mulder, is so dark and moody. Are you dark and moody in life?
David: I think so. I think what they wanted was somebody who could be this haunted and driven person but not behave in that way, and therefore be haunted and driven but also appear to be normal and not crazy at the same time. And I think that I could, I can, I can offer that.
Interviewer: What haunts you now? What drives you now?
David: What drives me is failure and success and all those things, so ...
Interviewer: Where are you now? Are you haunted and driven? Failed or successful? Which?
David: Yeah, both.
Interviewer: All of the above?
David: I always feel like a failure.
Interviewer: Do you mean now you feel like a failure?
David: Yeah, I mean, sometimes, you know, like . . . I come back to New York, so it’s like, everything is different.
So I lie in bed and think: hmm, two years ago, three years ago, very different, maybe I’m doing well.  But
then I think, you know, there are just so many other things that I want to do and . . .
Interviewer: Your father and mother divorced when you were eleven. Does that have an effect on your life today that you recognize?
David: Well, yeah, I think that the only way to think of it is that, you know, people are saying your wound is your
gold, you know. Wherever you’re hurt, that’s where you become stronger. So that’s what, that’s what it’s really about.
Interviewer: Ok, it’s time for a short break.  We’ll be back in a minute.  David Duchovny and  The X-files.  Don’t go away.