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David Duchovny Talks 'Failure of Friendship' with Gillian Anderson During The X-Files: 'Could've Handled Myself Better'

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reunited on his podcast and revealed there were times during 'The X-Files' when they wouldn't speak off camera for weeks.

In July, she posted a video message for Duchovny on her social media channels, praising Fail Better and describing his interviews with people like Sean Penn and Gabor Maté as “intimate and vulnerable and very smart.” “When I first started listening and had reached out to you, I wasn’t thinking about it necessarily in terms of me or talking to you about the book,” Anderson told Duchovny on the new episode. Over the past 30-plus years, in which the duo have starred together in a total of 11 seasons of The X-Files as well as two spin-off films, Duchovny said, “I don’t know that we ever sat down and said, ‘Hey, what was your childhood like?’ ”

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