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David Duchovny jokes he 'discovered' Angelina Jolie during his audition for their 1997 movie Playing God: 'I just knew she was a movie star'


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The actor was asked about starring alongside the then-little-known Jolie in Playing God on Sirius XM's Radio Andy, where Duchovny opened up about the audition. After saving somebody's life in a bar, a crime lord (Timothy Hutton) hires him as his personal physician to patch up his men when they are hurt and can't go to the hospital. Jolie kept working in Pushing Tin (where she met one-time husband Billy Bob Thornton), Gia, Hell's Kitchen and The Bone Collector before her Oscar-nominated turn in Girl, Interrupted alongside Winona Ryder.

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