David Duchovny has admitted he had a "strangely emotional" reaction when reading the new set of scripts for The X-Files. Chatting to Entertainment Weekly, he told of how he was already in tears by the end of the first page.
"I got the first script this morning, I just read it about an hour ago and I started crying reading the first page. It was just so strange to see the names on the page.
"It had nothing to do with the script itself. It was just like, I'd been talking about this for a long time. We'd been planning it for a long time. It took a long time to get all the people in the same place and get the deal with Fox.
"So let's say two years we've been talking about doing it. Now it's the fun part. Now we actually get to do it. That was nice and strangely emotional for me, and I'll have to figure out how to use that [in the performance]."
Although many details are being kept underwraps from the new series, the star did insist it was "fantastic" and that he'd entertain the idea of returning for more episodes if it's a success.
"I would be open to doing another cycle. I don't know that I could do a 20-episode version of this show at this point in my life, and I don't know that Gillian [Anderson] could.
"But I think everybody is open ended on what happens after this. Certainly, we didn't bring it back with the idea of ending it."
The X-Files returns to FOX in January next year for six new episodes.
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