Duchovny: Hot 30.com

with Kyle and Jackie O

Australia

June 15, 2001

Kyle: David Duchovny…[missed a bit]…movie star, general sort of get around town man (Jackie & DD laugh) he's joining us here, how are you? Welcome to the country.

DD: Thank you

Jackie: You haven’t been here very long though have you?

DD: Just about a day, a little more than a day now.

Jackie: And you’re going soon

DD: Yeah, I’m going the day after tomorrow.

Jackie: Oh no, you’re not going to get to do hardly anything while you’re here. And you’re doing like the whole, the world, the world promo tour?

DD: Kind of, yeah.

Jackie: Yeah.

DD: But so far I’m having a great time here.

Jackie: Oh good, good.

Kyle: That’s good. Now you’ve played many kooky sorts of roles. Is this sort of – do you – when you go through scripts do you, do you look for the odd thing, because like, I can’t see you sort of dancing alond on the back of a horse with a sword in the air (Jackie laughs) sort of like Gladiator style, like do you look for certain types of roles?

DD: Come on…

(Kyle laughs)

Kyle: You’re very masculine -

DD: Thank you

(Jackie laughs)

Kyle: I’m not saying you’re not a masculine man –

DD: Thank you

Kyle: I’m just sort of wondering is that the sort of thing you search for?

DD: You know what, I don’t know what I search for. It’s just kind of like, ah, you respond to something, it’s like instinctual. I don’t, I don’t go around looking for any one thing, I just happen to like the things that I like and then I try to do those things.

Kyle: Well you’ve done them very well, I think.

DD: Well, thank you.

Kyle: Now I, the girl in our promotions area, Anita, has said to me (puts on girly swooning voice), ‘Oh my god, David Duchovny, he – on TV he looks dead and pale (Jackie laughs), but he’s so beautiful, he’s a beautiful man.’ And I went [beat], ‘OK, I’ll mention that in the interview, thanks very much for that –“

DD: That’s, that’s, that’s acting.

Kyle: It is, is –

DD: Yeah, you know, I figured, you know, Fox Mulder, I was gonna be dead and pale

(Jackie & Kyle laugh)

Jackie: That’s the role.

DD: I’m gonna, I’m gonna have to have a talk with the DP when I get back…

(all laugh)

Kyle: (imitating) ‘Look, you’re doing the whole make up wrong, I was looking drawn out – ‘

DD: You know it’s, it’s funny, when I first started doing the X-Files our DP was a New Zealander, a guy named John Bartley. I said to him – you know I wanted it to be fairly realistic –

Kyle: Yeah

DD: - I didn’t want to look like a television star or whatever so I said to him – you know I didn’t want to be lit beautifully – and I said, ‘Just make me look regular, I don’t want to get up… and he’s like (New Zealand accent) “sure" (Kyle chuckles, as he goes into the next bit David cracks up) And so, like, the first few shows came out and I said, ‘Hey, that’s a little too regular.’

(all laugh and continue to through the next bit)

Jackie: Make me look more beautiful now, OK?

DD: That’s enough of that [body or bottly or bodily?]

Kyle: Now Evolution, ah, this is another strange sort of film, um, it’s not something that would happen in someone’s normal life, is it? Jackie: Ha, no, I don’t think so.

DD: Well I, you’ve probably dealt with a six foot anus in your life.

Kyle: Only when I’m on mega drugs (DD chuckles), on the weekend, um, it’s the sort of role that I thought, you know, you’d easily fit into.

DD: Well, I just – it was kind of – it was less the role and more like that style of movie that I wanted to do – more, more big, you know, over the top comedy. That was really what I was going for here was less, ah you know, less that I had to play this community college teacher, and more that I wanted to be in a movie like this and try to , you know, act that way in a movie, you know, that style.

Kyle: Being a, ah, like big-time movie-TV star and –

(DD makes this growling tough guy noise and he and Jackie laugh)

Kyle: - and also married to one, like um –

DD: Yeah

Kyle: Do you freak out when you see your wife sort of –

DD: Making out

Kyle: Going for a bit of a pash (DD chuckles) with some other guy Jackie: Yeah, does that – Kyle: Is there something inside that just says, ‘Jesus this isn’t right -‘

DD: Yeah

(DD & Jackie are chuckling all through this)

Kyle: But I’m gonna put the smiley face on, ‘You did a great job, babe, you now, I think you’re great’ ah, but you’re freaking out inside though

DD: (laughs) The, ah, fortunate thing is that since I’ve known Tea, she really hasn’t done a love scene like that – nor have I. I mean, I’ve had kissing scenes like in Return To Me, very, ah, very innocent, and in this movie again kind of sexually innocent movie – you know I fall in love with Julianne Moore, but just a little smooch at the end so, ah, we haven’t had the full on like, you know (bangs on the desk ‘rhythmically’ -

Kyle: Yeah the big f-

DD: - love scene

Kyle: Yeah, exactly.

DD: But, ah, you know in Family Man she, she – Tea’s such a good actress that, you know, I watched her be in love with Nicolas Cage, ah, I thought she did a great job and I didn’t mind. But I, you know, when I was doing some press a couple of weeks ago somebody said, ‘Did it bother you – the chemistry between your wife and Nicolas Cage?’ And I was like, you know, not until you asked that question.

(all laugh)

Jackie: Yeah, and then you start to wonder

Kyle: So you don’t- see when I – sometimes – cos we interview some ah – Jennifer Lopez a couple of months ago and I went home and my girlfriend was like, (girly voice) ‘Jennifer Lopez, hey? Hmm (DD and Jackie laugh), what was she like, hmm? Was she as nice looking in person?’

DD: And you say no no no no, you say no no no no (keeps going underneath next bit)

Jackie: Ugly, bad complexion.

Kyle: Yeah, really bad in person you know like, yeah

(all laugh)

Jackie: OK, David we’ll get you to hang round cos we’ve actually got Georgina our celebrity psychic, she’s walking in right now and we’re gonna go – Kyle: Oh god no, we’ll unleash her when she gets her little broomstick parked in the corner, on David Duchovny next at the Hot 30…

[Plays 2 songs]

Kyle: You’re still here at the Hot 30.com countdown, Kyle and Jackie O all thanks to coke music auction for details log onto Hot30 right now. David Duchovny joining us in the studio… Jackie: Yes and it’s time for him to meet our celebrity psychic, David meet Georgina.

DD: Hi Georgina

PsychicGeorgina: Hello David, pleased to meet you –

Kyle: Come around and sit – there’s a chair over there – Now, ah, Georgina, she makes quite accurate predictions, ah, sometimes

(DD laughs)

PsychicGeorgina: Oh, thank you!

Kyle: And then other times it’s not quite as accurate as you would like

(DD & Jackie laugh)

PsychicGeorgina: Excuse me, what do you mean by that?

Kyle: Well I can’t really put my finger on anything right at the moment –

DD: Hey if you’ve got like a 20% rate that’s pretty damn good.

PsychicGeorgina: No, a 95% hit rate.

DD: 95!

PsychicGeorgina: 95% hit rate

Jackie: Yeah, she’s pretty damn good David

DD: I wanna hear this [or ‘I don’t wanna hear this’]

Kyle: Now touch David’s hand and –

PsychicGeorgina: ooooooo (Jackie laughs)

Kyle: and ah, what do you get? What do you get?

DD: Well, well in in – for this movie, can you read my ass?

[XF theme is playing in the background]

Jackie: If you’re willing to show it I’m sure she can read it

(PsychicGeorgina and Jackie laugh)

Kyle: Can you touch David’s ass (DD laughs) and see what you get from it?

PsychicGeorgina: Will it give me electrified?

Kyle: Yeah, do it – touch it.

PsychicGeorgina: Oh my god!

Kyle: There it is.

(Jackie laughs)

PsychicGeorgina: It’s hot, it’s sizzling hot!

Kyle: Now what are you getting? What’s in the future for –

DD: What’s in the future in that – of that ass?

PsychicGeorigina: The future actually says, actually really it’s amazing –

Kyle: Are we just talking about the ass?

PsychicGeorgina: - what the ass produces.

(all laugh)

Kyle: We’re supposed to be talking about the future.

PsychicGeorgina: The future actually show that maybe he’s like, um, like an island wanting a break away from the kind of work that he’s actually doing, in the next three years, and you’ll grab a different type of, a different type of audience, and when I say a different type of audience, not, not queers –

(all laugh)

Kyle: There’s a loop in here – just ah, just weave through the shit and there’s some substance in there.

(all laugh)

PsychicGeorgina: A different type of audience that will have a comedy aspect, it’ll have a Christmas feel to it, and you’ll get nominated for a large award – I don’t know what the awards are in the movie industry (DD makes a ‘ooooaa’ kinda sound) – I don’t think you’ll get the award, but you will be nominated for it.

Kyle: Oh that’s even - Jackie: Ha, that’s great! Ha

(Kyle laughs)

PsychicGeorgina: No, but nominated give them a different profile -

DD: You know being nominated really is all it’s about –

PsychicGeorgina: No, it’s – yeah -

DD: I want to congratulate the winner (Kyle & Jackie laugh) and it’s just an honor really to be nominated

PsychicGeorgina: No, you will get nominated –

DD: Thank you

PsycicGeorgina: - and probably a re-run of a movie that was very successful in the late 40s -–early 50s. But I get the name –

Kyle: Sounds boring to me –

PsychicGeorgina: No, hang on , it doesn’t –

DD: Hey, ay ay –

Psychic Georgina: - this is how I’m paying the bills -

DD: This is my award winning performance we’re talking about.

(Kyle & Jackie laugh)

PsychicGeorgina: Um, I don’t know if it’s – I get the name Ford Coppola. Now do they still produce movies –

DD: My god, yeah, sure.

PsychicGeorgina: Well, that’ll be the person and they’ll take a risk – a huge risk – and for you whoever – I don’t know if your manager or anybody’s out there now, they’ll say don’t – which one?

DD: ahhh, she right there talking to Francis Ford Coppola! Oh my God!

(all laugh)

Kyle: We’re in! It’s sold!

(more laughs)

PsychicGeorgina: Well, I don’t know if it’s him or somebody from - with that kind of name

DD: Right.

PsychicGeorgina: And the message is Take the gamble, it’s actually the biggest gamble of your life, but the best gamble and it will take you away from that like scientific role, to – and I know this is the role you’re doing now, it’s humorous but it’s lighthearted. It is what you want because at the moment the body is craving – ‘I want a change’. But the message is not to put money, and I think you’re already talking about it at the moment, in a syndicate situation with two other people, because I feel it’s not going to take off.

Kyle: The lotto

(Jackie laughs)

PsychicGeorgina: No, it’s to do with business and maybe to do with production and things like that.

Kyle: Well that’s nice, I was just talking to David outside about maybe, you know, going into a little business – a film company here in Australia –

(all laughing)

PsychicGeorgina: I wouldn’t go into business with you because you’re so bloody shonky.

Kyle: Bloody hell. Well thank you David very much for coming in to talk to us here Jackie: Yeah thanks David Kyle: And I hope you enjoy your little whirlwind tour here of the country.

DD: Thank you, thanks.