You can believe it. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are back together again for one more X-Files movie and if things go well at the box office for The X-Files: I Want to Believe, it might not be the last time the two step into the shoes of Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. Although it took the pair longer than they expected to get back into their roles, both Anderson and Duchovny care deeply for these two characters who've been embraced by audiences worldwide and enjoyed the opportunity to revisit the world of X-Files one more time.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Press Conference:

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

David 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 10 seconds in the movie. And then Gillian and I started working on it after Christmas break. 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."

Gillian Anderson: "I had a similar experience. This feels so weird [looking out the window]. Summertime. I didn't have all the running around that David had to do, but I did have my own unfortunate beginning, which was starting with one of the most difficult scenes for Scully in the film where it's later on in the script and she goes through a range of emotions in confronting Billy Connolly's character.

I just had a really [hard] time for those first couple of days that that scene was. I had a really hard time just finding her, finding her voice. I think I must've gone through 10 other characters in the process of trying to get to her, when I had assumed that I would be able to show up on the first day and it would just be there. It wasn't until I think day three when we got to work together, not just necessarily in a familiar environment which it really wasn't, but in the environment of each other and the relationship and that it kind of felt natural and familiar, and I felt like I'd landed this time."

The film is heartfelt and thought-provoking, similar to some of the early episodes. Did that play a part in coming back to this after all this time?

David Duchovny: "No. My coming back was not based on script. At this point I have almost complete blind trust in Chris [Carter] and Frank [Spotnitz] to come up with the goods. So my only concern was that it should be a stand alone and not something that you needed specific knowledge of The X-Files to enjoy. When I read the script I saw that it was that. Other than that, I had no hopes or plans for what this would be. I just knew that the world we'd made, and the world that Chris and Frank would remake, was going to be satisfying to me."

Gillian Anderson: "I had stated my interest in being onboard sometime ago as well, and by the time I read the script it was kind of a given that this was something that we were going to do. So I don't think there was ever a point where I jumped more onboard or had an opportunity to back out of it…"

David Duchovny: "She wanted a musical."

Gillian Anderson: "We're not allowed to sing."

What do you think the secret is to your chemistry when you play these characters?

Gillian Anderson: "We've actually been having a 15 year affair."

David Duchovny: "I don't know why in the beginning, maybe just luck in the beginning. But after this long we actually do have a history and so when I look over at Gillian, or I'm Mulder looking over at Scully, there's a lot of sh*t that I can call on. We have a lot between us and so you don't really have to make it up. I think that just as people, now 15 years later, we have just shared so much regardless of how much we speak to one another. I expect to see Gillian even if I haven't seen her for a year. She's not even listening to me…"

Gillian Anderson: "I was, I was!"

David Duchovny: "You just heard the last line."

Gillian Anderson: "I did. I was really distracted. I was listening to every word that you said."

David Duchovny: "I don't have a window like you do over there."

Gillian Anderson: "You can tune out now. Whatever it is that's between us was there from the second that we started working together, and it's not quantifiable. I think it's something that is unique. And, yes, they got lucky, but it was something that Chris had seen which is why he fought so hard, specifically, and this is something that's been written about a lot, to cast me over someone else. He saw something between the two of us that was unique. Whether it's luck or that we were meant to be with each other all along, I don't know."

In terms of what's on film, how much does Chris Carter encourage a sense of humor?

David Duchovny: "Very, very, very little. Chris and I have always kind of battled over that. In the series, it got in more and more for both of us as we went on and did what we thought of as the funny episodes. We both enjoyed doing those because they were like vacations. And certainly Chris, as the show runner, was guiding that and letting that happen and saw the virtue in what a huge tent this show had so that it could encompass everything from stand-alones to mythology to parody of itself. I can't think of another show that ever did that. We just never did the musical. We never did that, but that's the only thing, thank goodness."

But in terms of me coming up with stuff in the moment, usually Chris doesn't like that because he has a different theory about the tension than I do. He really feels like it lets the air out of things and he doesn't like to do that. I feel like I like to let the air out. So that's just a difference opinion we have. I don't know what your take on that is."

Gillian Anderson: "I'm not funny."

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