X-Files actress Gillian Anderson has revealed that fans will probably be most shocked about the absence of any aliens in new movie The X-Files: I Want To Believe.

Speaking at the film’s world premiere in Hollywood, the actress, who plays Dana Scully, gave away a few teasers about what we shouldn’t expect from the top secret plot: “The fans, from what I’ve been hearing, have been surprised that there aren’t any aliens in the movie.”

“One of the things we have to remember is that the series was about so many different aspects of the paranormal and the spiritual and there are so many different things to explore that it kind of makes sense that we didn’t immediately jump on that band wagon because there are so many films about aliens.”

Without revealing anything, she added: “The writers chose to do something a bit more profound and poetic and hopefully the fans will feel satisfied by that.”

Perhaps more tellingly, her on-screen counterpart David Duchovny hinted that perhaps some romance could be on the cards: “People will be surprised not only how scary and complex it is, but also how emotional and romantic it is at the same time.”

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It was a long time coming, but the newest X-Files movie is finally here. Six years after the series ended, and a decade since the first movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe reunites Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, as agents Scully and Mulder, investigating the weird and the unexplained. The X-Files: I Want to Believe sees a reluctant Mulder and an even more reluctant Scully assist the FBI in the hunt for a missing agent, where the only lead they have is a defrocked Catholic priest with psychic visions, played with brilliant subtlety by Billy Connolly. In between bantering, Gillian and David spoke with us at this week’s X-Files press junket at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills about returning to the roles that made them famous. Trust no one if you must us, but trust us on this – the following is one of the most definitive X-Files interviews you’re ever likely to read…

Can you talk about getting back into these characters after a five or six year period?

Duchovny: Well, I had two weeks before Christmas of basically running around and chasing Callum Rennie, who plays the running bad guy that I chase all over the place. That took a good two full weeks of running, even though I know it’s only about ten seconds in the movie. Gillian and I started working [together] after Christmas break. In the first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn’t really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about, and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film.

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FIFTEEN years after finding fame playing FBI agent Fox Mulder in TV hit The X-Files, David Duchovny is returning to the role that made him a household name.

Duchovny, who walked away from the series in 2002 after playing the iconic investigator of the paranormal for nine years, says he was surprised how challenging it was returning to the career-making role.
“I thought I would fall back into Mulder very naturally, but at first playing the character felt a little odd,” he says.

“I didn’t want to make any drastic changes in the way I played Mulder because the character is so well-known, but of course I’m older now, and so is Mulder, so some things had to change.

“I think it would have been depressing if I had to try to play him the same way I did 15 years ago when I started.

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LOS ANGELES — Some Mulder and Scully fans were dubious when the title for the new movie based on their favorite TV show was announced: “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.”

How, the skeptics wondered, could the two former FBI agents be anything but true believers after years of encountering aliens, monsters, ghosts and everything else that might go bump in the night?

But so-called X-Philes want to believe in this franchise that started way out on the fringes and eventually brought the creepy and paranormal into the mainstream. The feeling among its creators is mutual.

“We want to believe in the audience,” said David Duchovny, who reprises his role as Fox Mulder, the guy with boogeymen on the brain, co-starring with Gillian Anderson as his soul mate and doubting Thomas, science-minded Dana Scully.

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe press conference on July 19, 2008:

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe world premiere on July 23, 2008: