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Duchovny is out there at Princeton
'X-Files' Duchovny visits alma mater
Friday, April 28, 2006
By JOYCE J. PERSICO
Staff Writer
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Actor-director David Duchovny, best known
as the intrepid FBI special agent Fox Mulder of "The X-Files"
fame, was game about answering a familiar question at his alma
mater, Princeton University, in a lecture yesterday afternoon.
No, he doesn't think, as Mulder did, that humans have been
contacted by alien beings, but he does have a theory, one
that's a bit too raunchy for a family newspaper.
In a good-natured but rambling discussion of his acting,
writing and directing careers, the 45-year-old Class of 1982
grad fielded questions from the crowd that waited outside the
Stewart Film Theater off Nassau Street and filed quietly in
when seating became available.
"He's total eye-candy," Monica Wegleski of Glen Ridge declared.
"I own all of 'The X-Files' on tape."
She was not the only "civilian" in the crowd that included a mix
of students, residents and fans from out of town like Wegleski,
who seemed to remember more about Duchovny's 1993-2001 and part
of 2002 appearances on the series than he did.
"This is a rare opportunity," said Princeton University senior
Peter White as he waited in line. "Actually, I'm an 'X-Files'
fanatic."
While camera phones clicked throughout the packed theater,
Duchovny often deferred to Maria DiBattista, a professor who
teaches film history in the comparative literature department
and who had him as a student. She sat nearby as Duchovny
demonstrated what she called "an insistent intelligence."
She quoted from his senior thesis in which he used the term "one"
as a noun so often he made it a running joke throughout his talk.
"When I was 21, I only said 'one,"' he joked. "One might say."
When his plans to become a basketball or baseball player collapsed,
Duchovny decided to start writing. But it never occurred to him
to try acting and he had nothing but disdain for his roommate-actor
at Princeton who had the upper bunk.
"I remembered we would talk and I'd be looking up at his mattress
thinking, 'What an idiot! You came to Princeton to act?"'
His roommate told him about an acting exercise with a mask.
Everyone got a different mask and could react counter to the
expression on the mask or act out the mask's expression.
"The person who did nothing won. That person actually embodied
the mask. For me, as an actor, I have to figure out what the
mask is. I learned that at Princeton by mistake."
Showings of two Duchovny-written and directed episodes of "The
X-Files" along with a screening of his film "The House of D,"
which he wrote, directed and starred in, were presented in
anticipation of his lecture. He attended a class and had dinner
at the University's Rockefeller Dining Room during his stay
before heading to New York's Tribeca Film Festival for the
premiere of his latest movie, "The TV Set."
As for the chance of there being a second "X-Files" movie,
Duchovny got a positive response from the more obvious fans
in the audience when he said, "There are some legal problems
but everybody wants to do it."
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