{"id":35,"date":"2010-03-14T01:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2010-03-14T02:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T02:41:05","slug":"the-david-duchovny-interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"David Duchovny: The CQ Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/David_Duchovny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/David_Duchovny.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"David Duchovny\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/David_Duchovny.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grilled-cheese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/David_Duchovny-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Cucumber Quarterly decided to take a few moments out of our busy schedule to interview one of Hollywood&#8217;s most talked about actors, David Duchovny.  Actually, he cornered us in an alley and forced us into the building to conduct an interview.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Who is your favorite actor?<\/p>\n<p>DD: David Duchovny.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Conceited, aren&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>DD: No. Just honest.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Who is your least favorite actor?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Harrison Ford<\/p>\n<p>CQ: WHY?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Because he wouldn&#8217;t make me a cupboard.  He also didn&#8217;t call me back when I asked him to redo my kitchen. Good help is hard to find.  I was going to pay him for the supplies, too.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: So what you&#8217;re saying is, he&#8217;s a bad carpenter?<\/p>\n<p>DD: I don&#8217;t know, he never wanted to do the work for me.  It&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s working right now.  Not like *me* anyway.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No offense, but all your movies bomb.<\/p>\n<p>DD: That&#8217;s because actors like Harrison Ford won&#8217;t retire!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: So you were up for the role of Henry in &#8216;Regarding Henry&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Yeah, but I thought the role sucked after I auditioned.  So I took the part of Bruce in &#8216;Don&#8217;t Tell Mom the Babysitter&#8217;s Dead.&#8217; Excellent role! Much better than that stupid movie &#8216;Regarding Henry.&#8217;  And I turned down &#8216;Raiders of the Lost Ark.&#8217;  They wanted a young guy like me, but I wanted to go to college.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: So you find that an education is more important than a Box Office smash hit?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Of Course! What would you rather have? Millions of dollars or a Degree from an Ivy League school?  Look at Harrison Ford&#8230;he was kicked out of school 3 days before graduation. He doesn&#8217;t have a piece of paper to hang on *his* wall.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: But he is an Oscar-nominated actor and is the box office champ of all time.<\/p>\n<p>DD: But does HE have a Ken doll bearing his likeness?????<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Well he *does* have many action figures and a large Han Solo doll from the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Yeah, but is he &#8220;Ken?&#8221;  In addition, his wife is ugly. So there!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: But your wife&#8217;s name is also the name of a beverage. And her TV shows sucked.  And she can&#8217;t decide what color her hair should be.  And those pearls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DD: Well, Winona dumped me, so I was desperate.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: What do you think of the X-Files spin-off &#8216;The Lone Gunmen?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>DD: Completely sucks&#8230;well all but one episode did.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Why all but one?<\/p>\n<p>DD: It was the one I starred in, of course. I made the show.  If they featured me more, then maybe the show would&#8217;ve made a second season. Don&#8217;t put me in it, then it gets cancelled. Simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: You don&#8217;t think the time slot had anything to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>DD: They didn&#8217;t ask me which time slot I liked. That&#8217;s the reason it got cancelled. You think I would watch it Fridays at 9pm? Who the hell watches *anything* on Fridays at 9pm?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: The &#8216;X-Files&#8217; was on Fridays at 9pm from 1993 until 1996.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Well that&#8217;s different. That was the early 90s. Not the early oh-ohs.  Hey are you writing that 90s with no apostrophe? Or 90&#8217;s with an apostrophe? I have to make sure so I can visualize it.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No apostrophe.<\/p>\n<p>DD: OK, thanks. That really helps.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Um, if you were gay, who would you like to be stranded on a desert island with?<\/p>\n<p>DD: My wife.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No, if you were *gay*<\/p>\n<p>DD: My wife?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, do you understand the question?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Yeah, if I was happy, who would I like to be stranded on a desert island with. Tea [pronounced TEH-ah] makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: And coffee makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Your wife&#8217;s name is Coffee? Cute&#8230;very cute.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: I&#8217;m a heterosexual woman. I don&#8217;t have a wife!<\/p>\n<p>DD: Oh. So, your husband&#8217;s name is Coffee? Very manly.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: I&#8217;m not married.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Then who is Coffee?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Someone you pick up at Starbucks?<\/p>\n<p>[DD raises an eyebrow]<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Or, if you&#8217;re in Canada, at Coffee Time.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Eeewww&#8230;Canada&#8230;hate that place. I&#8217;m glad I defected.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, you&#8217;re not Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>DD: I&#8217;m not? Then what the hell was I doing there?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Filming a TV show?<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, that&#8217;s not it. [Looks away, pondering]<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny &#8230; are you OK? Would you like some water? Coffee? Tea?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Tea? Is she here?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No she isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>DD: [sigh]  I just can&#8217;t do interviews without her.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: What did you do before?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Before what?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Before you were married?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Oh. [thinks] Can I ask Tea what I did?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Do you need to phone a friend?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Uh, no. My wife.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Aren&#8217;t you friends with your wife?<\/p>\n<p>DD: No! Are you crazy? I&#8217;m not even friends with any of my exes!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Do all your Exes Live in Texas?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Huh?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: It&#8217;s a song, Mr. Duchovny.<\/p>\n<p>DD: OH! Cuz I thought you knew something I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Come to think of it, I do.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Really? Do you have a piece of paper from an Ivy League School on *your* wall?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No, but I have seen the movie &#8220;Witness&#8221; many times and could tell you the last line of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>[recites the last line from the movie]<\/p>\n<p>DD: Are you sure that&#8217;s not from &#8220;Braveheart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Yes, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Oh. Well, that line was in the script when I read it&#8230; I turned it down, though, so they gave the part to that Mel Gibson loser.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Um, Braveheart was directed by Mel Gibson. Why would he have asked you to play the role and not him?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Because I&#8217;m that good.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: And Mel Gibson&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Is not. You see, the center of the universe is me. You know that game &#8220;Six Degrees&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Of Kevin Bacon?<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, of David Duchovny.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Never heard of the game.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Well, the root of the game is everything goes back to one thing. And that one thing is of course, ME! I&#8217;m David Duchovny.  And I made that rhyme! [claps hands together]<\/p>\n<p>CQ: You&#8217;re very talented.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Now you see why I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m that good?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Are you musically inclined?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Oh, yes!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: What instrument do you play?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Um, piano?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Are you sure?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Yes?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: What&#8217;s your favorite song to play on piano?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Um, &#8220;Roll With the Changes&#8221; by REO Speedwagon. Kevin Cronin is my hero and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Kevin Cronin the meaning in your life&#8230;was he the inspiration?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Wow, you know that would make a good song! I should try that on the flute tonight.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, I thought you said you played the piano.<\/p>\n<p>DD: That&#8217;s what I said, on the piano tonight.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No, you said on the flute tonight.<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, I didn&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t play the flute.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: But you just said you did.<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Yes, you did. It&#8217;s on tape. Would you like me to rewind and playback?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Hey, whatever happened to that show on VH1 called 8-Track Flashback?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Huh?<\/p>\n<p>DD: You know, that show that had David Cassidy, Leif &#8220;rhymes with safe&#8221; Garrett and Suzanne Somers.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: What does that have to do with what we were talking about?<\/p>\n<p>DD: You said flashback.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: No, I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Yes, you did.<\/p>\n<p>CQ: I said playback.<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, you didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, are you saying that I&#8217;m making things up?<\/p>\n<p>DD: I didn&#8217;t say that. <\/p>\n<p>CQ: Yes you did. <\/p>\n<p>DD: No I didn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>CQ: Yes&#8230;you *did*. [sigh]  Can we press on?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Oh! Like Lee Press on Nails? I love those! I wore them when I was in &#8216;Twin Peaks.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: So did you get in touch with your inner bitch during that series?<\/p>\n<p>DD: [begins to sniffle] Are you calling me a bitch? What kind of interviewer are you?<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, that&#8217;s another song title. Didn&#8217;t you take American Pop Music in College?<\/p>\n<p>DD: I went to an Ivy League school. I studied the &#8216;classics!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: The Byrds? The Turtles? Guess Who?<\/p>\n<p>DD: Who?!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Yes, The Who was also a classic.<\/p>\n<p>DD: Huh?!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny. This interview isn&#8217;t going very well.<\/p>\n<p>DD: That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re mean. You called me a bitch, and you won&#8217;t let Tea in here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Mr. Duchovny, you were the one that wanted to do this interview. We didn&#8217;t ban Tea from the premises. In fact, we were just walking down the street when you stopped *us!*<\/p>\n<p>DD: No, you stopped me! You&#8217;ve wanted to interview me for a long time! You said so yourself!<\/p>\n<p>CQ: Actually we were on our way to interview Dean Haglund, your co-star from the show. <looks at watch>  Which we are late for right now. So let&#8217;s wrap this up, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>DD: [cries] You don&#8217;t love me, do you? You love him more!  Why is that?  Is it the hair?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 June\/July 2001 by SJG and CDK. All rights reserved.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nNOTE: This is a joke interview &#8211; nothing in here was stated by David Duchovny. Please do not take anything seriously. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cucumber Quarterly decided to take a few moments out of our busy schedule to interview one of Hollywood&#8217;s most talked about actors, David Duchovny. Actually, he cornered us in an alley and forced us into the building to conduct an interview. CQ: Who is your favorite actor? DD: David Duchovny. CQ: Conceited, aren&#8217;t we? 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