Mike: You were a life-saver yourself at one stage weren't you
David: Life-saver that's a nicer way to put it. We just say life-guard. But you actually have
me saving people. I always though life-savers were little candy. (laughs)
Mike: Yeah that's right
David: Yeah, I was a life-guard yeah
Mike: On Fire Island in New York
David: Yeah, in the ocean, yeah
Mike: I know you're only here for a short time but perhaps you could give it a quick go
on our beaches, maybe.
David: You're known for having the toughest life-guards in the world right? They always have
those competitions those guys run out thru the surf with their row-boats. We were a much
less sofistacated crew
Mike: That's because we've got the toughest sharks in the world.
David: You've got the sharks, you've got bigger waves, everything!
Cut to: clip from 'Playing God'
Voice-Over: Duchovny got into acting by mistake while studying literature at Yale university.
Cut Back to the hotel room:
Mike: Was it true that your room mate actually suggested that you could earn more money
doing commercials rather than bar-tending as you were?
David: My friend said that if we go on all these commercial casting and all you gotta do is
book one and you'll make as much money in one day that you would bar tending all summer and that
sounded like a good trade off to me. But of course I didn't book any.
Mike: Lowe and Broughton? The Lowe and Broughton commercial?
David: Yeah the last day of the summer.
Mike: Right, and that basically paid for your living expenses for the next year?
David: For the next year, yeah
Mike: How would you sum up your leap from TV-actor to movie-actor
David: Well I think it's gradual. You know I think some people make a splash when they do it.
Like Bruce Willis had the good fortune to do 'Die Hard' while he was doing 'Moonlighting' so
ahh and then you've got plenty of people that don't make the transission, for whatever reason.
I don't think it's always talent, a lot of it's luck and timing.
Mike: Will 'Evolution' be your 'Die Hard'?
David: I don't think so.
Cut to: Evolution Clip in the cave
David: Snag One
Orlando: Snag One?
David: Yeah Snag one and put it in the bucket.
Orlando: I've seen this movie, the black dude dies first. You snag it.
V/O: Evolution is a comedy in which Duchovny plays a scientist, who discovers with Orlando Jones
that alien creatures are taking over earth
Mike: Did you think *oh no, not more Aliens*?
David: Yeah I thought maybe I can't do it. I thought maybe I shouldn't do it. But then again
that's like succumbing to some idea that you might have of yourself. I mean I don't feel like
I'm combatting an image so I didn't feel like I either had to parody an image or get away from
the image. So in the end I just thought I wanna do a big comedy and if aliens are in it then
aliens are in it.
Mike: You even mooned, err, showed your butt off in one stage in the movie. Who's idea was that
David: It was my asses idea
Cut to: Evolution the mooning scene
Cut back to hotel room
David: My ass talked to me
Mike: You've got a thinking ass?
David: And speaking
Mike: And speaking? (laughs)
David: It was like mmmoonnnn (moon muffled into DD's hand) what? excuse me? (DD kind of
looks over his shoulder) mmmoonnn, mmmonnnn!
Mike: But it was your idea?
David: I wouldn't go so far as to calling it an idea. I think that's overpraising the mental
process
Mike: Just happened did it?
David: Yeah, it's like, I mean, I would never want to call mooning an idea you know
like inventing the light bulb is an idea. Mooning is just some stupid thing you do
on an impulse. And that's what I did and it ended up being in the movie
Mike: David enjoy your time in Australia, I know it's only bried but thank you again
David: Thankyou, Pleasure
Cut to: Footages from premieres in US with the "David Duchovny song" playing over the top
Footage of him in front of Sydney Opera House steps *very nice*
Mike back in studio
Yeah, very natural guy, and evolution opens around the country on July the 12th
