The X Files Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
5th January 2015
Fact: The X-FILES creator Chris Carter has been dealt a blow after bosses at digital platform Amazon Studios decided against moving forward with his new supernatural drama series The After. The show had been optioned last March (14), but Amazon executives recently rescinded their series order, leaving Carter to find a new home for the project.
28th May 2014
Fact: Los Angeles-based actor David Duchovny is a neighbour to his The X-FILES executive producer Chris Carter.
7th April 2014
Quote: "I enjoy being in her skin so much. She’s a cool chick, and she’s very comfortable with herself and her sexuality. I feel like I have expanded and matured and grown as a woman as a result of playing her." The X-FILES star Gillian Anderson on portraying provocative Stella Gibson in British Tv drama The Fall.
19th July 2013
Fact: The X-FILES stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were reunited at the Comic-Con event in San Diego, California on Thursday (17Jul13). The pair chatted with fans to celebrate the spooky show's 20th anniversary.
1st March 2013
Quote: "We always want to. Chris Carter (show creator) and Gillian Anderson and I, we're always onboard. You want to write Fox and get 'em going...You could wheel me out. I'll be Fox Mulder forever." David Duchovny is happy to revisit his X-FILES character and urges fans to petition the powers that be to bring the sci-fi show and movie franchise back.
21st January 2013
Quote: "The last thing I heard from Chris (Carter) was that he was in the process of writing the script. As exciting as that sounds, and it is exciting, the script is the first of 10 million steps. And also, script writing in itself is a dubious process. I, for one, have been working on one for a decade." Gillian Anderson opens up to MovieHole.net about a possible third X-FILES movie.
14th February 2011
Quote: "I did The Crimson Petal and the White for the BBC, and it’s a very large production costume drama. I play an ancient brothel owner, the mother of the main character, very decrepit and gnarly and wonderful, and layers and layers of costumes and trinkets." The X Files star Gillian Anderson can't wait for fans to see her as a period Madam.
1st July 2010
Fact: THE X-FILES star David Duchovny is to make his Broadway debut in Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon in October (10). The play, which follows the aftermath of a shooting incident, will open at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
30th April 2010
Quote: "There's this big mall with a multiplex there, and in the summertime I like to go and spend 10 minutes in 10 movies - unless I get into one, then I stay - but usually I stay for like 10 minutes." Former THE X-FILES star David Duchovny is a multiple movie-watcher.
1st October 2008
Quote: "I tried so hard to get into The X Files movie." Joshua Jackson was disappointed not to be offered a part in the THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE movie.
11th August 2008
Quote: "The conditions were absolutely miserable. DAVID (DUCHOVNY) really kept me afloat, singing dirty songs. We'd pick a song and then see who could make up the dirtiest lyrics." Amanda Peet had some help from her THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE co-star to beat the cold weather while filming in Vancouver, Canada.
6th August 2008
Quote: "Every once in a while she threatens me with it, but hopefully it'll go in another direction." THE X-FILES star Gillian Anderson hopes her 13-year-old daughter PIPER does not follow her into acting.
31st July 2008
Quote: "I feel very pregnant right now." Actress Gillian Anderson is struggling with Los Angeles' summer heat as she promotes new movie THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE. The star is six months pregnant.
30th July 2008
Quote: "It's a joke. I don't know where they come up with that stuff from. It's nonsense... I think one of her breasts is the size of my baby bump." Gillian Anderson insists reports her namesake Pamela Anderson tried out for the role of AGENT SCULLY in THE X-FILES are completely ludicrous.
29th July 2008
Quote: "Nobody has ever confused me with Mulder, but years ago I was in an elevator in Chicago and a guy said, 'Good morning, doctor'. I realised he thought I was Noah Wyle from E.R., which is set in Chicago. I said, 'You've got the wrong show, chief'." THE X-FILES actor David Duchovny enjoys a relatively low-profile life away from the camera.
28th July 2008
Quote: "If aliens and ghosts exist, then they don't come to the 'hood... I've never been haunted, I've never been abducted." Rapper and THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE star Xzibit is sceptical about beings from outer space and things that go bump in the night.
16th July 2008
Quote: "The strangest thing I've ever auctioned is an old smelly pair of well worn flip-flops." THE X-FILES star Gillian Anderson on the oddest thing she's ever sold online. The actress is set to sell off her vast collection of X-Files memorabilia for charity later this month (Jul08).
18th June 2008
Fact: THE X-FILES star David Duchovny and his actress wife Tea Leoni have put their Malibu, California mansion on the market. The couple's ocean-view property, which boasts five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a gym, two swimming pools and a guest house, is on sale for $12 million (GBP6 million).
17th April 2008
Fact: The new X-FILES film will be titled THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE.
26th August 2007
Fact: THE X-FILES star David Duchovny has another TV hit on his hands - his racy new cable series, CALIFORNICATION, debuted with U.S. network Showtime's highest figures for a comedy last week (beg13Aug07).
14th August 2007
Quote: "If THE X-FILES had been on a different network, Mulder and Scully probably would have had sex right away and then the show wouldn't have lasted as long." David Duchovny credits the sexual tension between his character and Gillian Anderson's with the sci-fi show's popularity.
24th July 2006
Fact: Actress Gillian Anderson has become a national spokesman for rare genetic neurological disorder neurofibromatosis in her native America. THE X-FILES star's brother suffers from the disease.
23rd January 2006
Quote: <p>"If we don't shoot it until 2007... it won't be coming out until 2008. And in 2008, will people really care?" Gillian Anderson is losing interest in a planned X-FILES movie. </p>
29th August 2005
Fact: <p>THE X-FILES creator Chris Carter is the current writer-in-residence at science centre The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. </p>
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