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June 6, 2001 — Paul Fischer interviewed David Duchovny in LA. Here's a clip: There are key moments in the film in which one gets the distinct impression that the actor gets to poke fun at himself. "I guess that's true but I wasn't really thinking about that", he insists. The subject matter of the film was secondary. "To me, I wanted to know: What kind of a film is it? What of acting am I going to be doing? This is totally different for ME. So the fact that there are aliens in this is irrelevant; it's still very different from what I've done before". Though Evolution is a broad sci-fi comedy, Duchovny went out of his way to keep his performance real and not overplay the film's comic elements. "I think this movie's deceptively simple, because the science-fiction has to be real, and the reality undercuts the comedy and the comedy undercuts the reality, so you have to constantly keep the reality and comedy in check". Evolution is Hollywood moviemaking on a grand scale, full of elaborate special effects. Duchovny says working on such a project was "nerve wracking because you really do have to deliver yourself into the hands of the director who's going to keep the tone right. There's a lot of trust involved with the director. In a drama, you pretty much know how to keep it real, interesting and be true to my character. It's a drama, so people are either going to believe it or not. But in a comedy, if there are no laughs it doesn't work and if they don't laugh because you didn't do your job correctly, then you'd feel like an idiot, so it was terrifying. Every day you'd come on set going: How do I make this funnier? You don't want to undercut yourself but at the same time miss the comedy. Doing comedy, I decided, is SO exhausting, because you just never know how something is going to turn out". Check out more at the linke below. |
