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Gillian Anderson and Peter Morgan are dating again! The actress, 54, and the British screenwriter, 60, confirmed their rekindled relationship by attending the wrap party for The Crown together on Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. His mother, after all, is a gritty-as-granite Aberdonian, Meg Miller, whose family originally came from the coastal village of Whitehills, but who subsequently Gillian Anderson, 52, gave X-Files fans the best Sunday surprise when she posted two new photos of herself hanging out with David Duchovny, 60. The actress and her former co-star were all smiles David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Relationship Despite Scully and Mulder turning from workmates to soulmates during the series, they were never fond of each other. According to The Guardian, in 2015, Anderson revealed there were times when they could not stand each other. David Duchovny: Won Best Actress in Leading Role – Drama Series: Gillian Anderson: Won Best Series – Drama: Won 1997: Best Actor in Leading Role – Drama Series: David Duchovny: Nominated Best Actress in Leading Role – Drama Series: Gillian Anderson: Nominated Best Series – Drama: Won 1998: Best Actor in Leading Role – Drama Series naskah drama tentang bullying 9 orang singkat. David Duchovny attends a Seattle event celebrating the release of his new novella, The Reservoir in June. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images)David Duchovny had a front row view of life in New York City during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. While other New Yorkers left Manhattan for more open air areas in the winter and spring of 2020, The X-Files star stayed in his high-rise apartment that overlooked Central Park. "My son was a junior in high school, so we weren't going anywhere," Duchovny tells Yahoo Entertainment now about the mood of New York in March 2020. "There was this very real quiet that would be punctured by ambulances, but otherwise there was very little ambient street sound, which you don't realize how overwhelming it is until it's gone." (Duchovny shares two children with his ex-wife, Téa Leoni.)That's the version of Manhattan that the author and actor recreates in his just-released novella, The Reservoir. Set during the initial months after COVID-19 made landfall in New York, the narrative follows an ex-Wall Street bean counter named Ridley, who passes the long days alone in his apartment by taking time-lapse photos of the park below. Estranged from his ex-wife and adult daughter, his life is absent of any other human contact — that is, until he notices a flashing light in an apartment window across Central Park that may be another lonely soul seeking a connection."I'm always amazed at how human nature can acclimate to the strangest circumstances and soon after that, it's the new normal," Duchovny says of how he burrowed into Ridley's solitary state of mind, which goes to some increasingly strange places as his obsession with his unseen neighbor grows and cabin fever sets in. "Before anybody really knew how the virus was transmitted, we were all very superstitious and we must have all been really afraid. The danger is now that we've come out of it a little bit, some of us have come to think: 'Oh, that was a hoax' or whatever. But it wasn't."I get pissed when people say: 'Fauci backtracked on the math,'" Duchovny continues, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who has overseen America's response to the pandemic. "That's how science works! They proceed by trial and error — it's not a lie if he changes his stance. It's that we have more information. My pet peeve is when people label the scientific process misinformation. Of course, they don't know [everything] right off the bat: They're figuring it out and that's going to involve some mistakes. The stakes are high and that sucks, but that's not the fault of scientists."David Duchovny's new novella, The Reservoir, recreates life in Manhattan in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image: Akashic Books)In a wide-ranging conversation, Duchovny discusses how he came to feel sympathy for the flunky financial world he created; collaborating with Meg Ryan on her upcoming feature, What Happens Later; and how he feels about Gillian Anderson's very public creative complaints about the most recent X-Files media became an outlet for younger people in the first months of the pandemic, but Ridley doesn't express an interest in any of those platforms. What was his media diet in your mind? Well, I think what's interesting about Ridley — at least to me — is that he's not young enough to live and breathe the air of social media. He hears rumors of it, but he's not savvy enough to take part in it. As I executed the book, I wanted to work my way into a sympathetic relationship with people whose beliefs in misinformation, I think, are trash. There's a beautiful human desire to want to know the answer, and we live in a world now where a figure like Q is supposed to be the key to of me gets pissed off, because misinformation is lethal in many ways, but the other part is completely sympathetic and understanding because humans are pattern-making animals. We are the ones that try to solve the puzzle or that see the world as a puzzle. So even though Ridley doesn't get sucked into the new iteration of that puzzle making, which would be Twitter and Facebook and all that, he still has that in him. And he pays for it in many that point, do you think he would have fallen in with the QAnon crowd or become an anti-vaxxer as the pandemic continued? I haven't thought of that, so I don't know if I believe this answer. [Laughs] But it's related to my previous answer: When I'm writing a story, I'm always trying to figure out why the story interests me. I don't write thrillers or potboilers, but I do like plots and I trust myself to know that if I'm drawn to a plot, there's something underpinning it. With this book, it was the relationship between Ridley and his daughter and the intensity of the emotion that Ridley's been repressing over the pandemic, because he can't see her or can't make up with her. That emotion is transmuted into this kind of false quest for the answer to everything hit these points in our recent history where we've been driven so tragically and desperately inward and alone that we are also driving outward to reach out to other people. That was the case after 9/11, but with the virus, that outward drive was taken away. There was nowhere to put it because you were alone, and the antidote to your loneliness was going to kill you. It was this terrible bind that we got put in: The feeling that you're going to die if you actually try and have a human connection with someone signs copies of his books at the 2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)Your own daughter is grown now: Did you draw on any of your own experiences as a parent for the book?Not specifically, but just the bare fact of being a father and having the recognition that when you have a child, you're balancing the desperate need to protect them with the understanding that you can't keep them safe every moment of their life. It's a devastating kind of love, but one that's a big one. So, I don't draw on my life specifically, but I draw on it historically, keeping an eye on my own soul and it's trajectory throughout this whole not a lot of sympathy among the general public for Wall Street employees these days. Did you feel sympathy for Ridley as you were creating him?It's funny, the reason why I made Ridley a Wall Streeter is that I didn't want people to have sympathy for him. I didn't want to have sympathy for him! [Laughs] I wanted to satirize the kind of person that thinks he's an artist because he's able to buy a bunch of art. So that was really the beginning of it: me saying f*** you to these guys that think they can own art and somehow that gives them credibility. But as the writing went on, Ridley started to push back against me. He was like, "Hey, stop — I'm not one-dimensional." Then things got complicated, and I'm always overjoyed when that I came to think of Ridley as an artist without hands. He does have a certain sensitivity to him, but he has no talent and no way to express it regardless of this time-lapse business that he's up to. So I have great sympathy for that because any artist feels that we're always falling short, and that everything we create is a failure. It's never this great triumph that we're led to believe when we see it celebrated on awards shows or whatever. I guarantee you, when you go home with that award you know how bad your thing is, and how it's not what you had meant it to be! If you have an artistic soul, but you can never even get close to expressing yourself, that's a tragedy worth investigating to on the set of his 2004 directorial debut, House of D. (Photo: Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection)You're currently adapting one of your other books, Bucky F*cking Dent, to the big screen. Are you enjoying the process? It's been interesting. I had originally written it as a screenplay, but was unable to get it made back in the day. So now I've re-written the screenplay with aspects that grew in the process of writing the novel. And when we shoot, there will be other demands of the form, because moviemaking is affected by a million things that writing isn't affected by, you know? Movies can be affected because of weather, because of sickness or because of a bad lunch. [Laughs] Whatever happens on those days happens, and you have to kind of allow magic to happen or disaster to happen, which isn't so much the case with writing where you're really in total Reservoir references Alfred Hitchock's Rear Window several times. If you were to make this book into a film, is that the model you'd use? It's a great question because I have thought about how this film could potentially go in many different directions. There's the Spalding Gray version, where I would be sitting at a table as Ridley reading the story, with bits and pieces dramatized. But I've also thought of it as more of a thriller where the mystery neighbor is fleshed out with more backstory. I mean, there's only two pages of dialogue in the whole book, so the story could be told in lots of different ways. There's the straight pandemic tragedy, there's the surreal, magical kind of tale. It's exciting to think about, although I doubt it'll ever get made!Meg Ryan attends the 2021 amfAR Gala in Los Angeles. Duchovny is set to star in her latest film. (Photo: Taylor Hill/WireImage)You're currently collaborating with Meg Ryan on her new film, What Happens Later. I feel like they missed a big opportunity by not bringing her back for Top Gun: Maverick. Carole Bradshaw should have been in it!I'll let her know! [Laughs] Working with Meg has been a pleasure: We're not shooting the film yet, but talk about someone who has an artist's soul and the ability to execute. I've really enjoyed working on the material with her, and listening to her vision for the film. She's pursuing an artist's life: She happened to be a huge movie star, but she's always been an X-Files co-star, Gillian Anderson, recently expressed her disappointment with how the revival ended with Scully being pregnant again. Did you know at the time that she wasn't happy with that storyline?No, that was the first I'd heard of it. Personally, I don't like to air creative grievances like that in public, so I was surprised to see it and David Duchovny in the 2016 revival of The X-Files. (Photo: Shane Harvey/Fox)Are you up for more X-Files if the opportunity presents itself or do you think the most recent series was enough?I thought the first seven years were enough! But I'm always up for more, clearly. Someone sent me a clip of Joel McHale from the 2016 episodes we did, and it's a spot-on description of where we're at six years later. I don't think [X-Files creator] Chris Carter gets enough credit for being [prescient]. Forget about the ins and outs of plots and who gets pregnant or who gets shot. I mean, every show turns into a soap opera, so you have limited options. People are going to die or get pregnant or go to prison, right? Or become think like it's a little bit in the weeds to worry about character's fates, when you realize that Chris somehow made a show in 1993, and again in 2016, that predicted what 2022 would be like. If he wanted to do more, I'd certainly listen to him. I'd say, "What have you got?" Because I want to know the future, too, you know what I mean? And not denigrating Gillian's feelings about Scully being pregnant or the character. I certainly had misgivings about my character throughout the run. It's in the nature of a long-running thing. But to take the long view, what that show is able to embrace thematically is really the key to its longevity, and if we were to do it again, it's just a question of: "What have we go to say."The Reservoir is on sale now at most major booksellers, including Amazon. "The truth is out there," is the tagline from the show that made him famous, but X-Files star David Duchovny has always kept the details of his private life firmly under wraps. "He's one of the most enigmatic and elusive stars in Hollywood," says an OK! insider. "And there are a lot of misconceptions about him." He won't be a man of mystery for much longer. Article continues below advertisement"He wants to set the record straight," says the insider. "David comes across as standoffish, but he's actually a really sensitive guy and a hopeless romantic." His love life will certainly take up a lot of real estate. He and Leoni, 54, wed in 1997 after just eight weeks of dating. But Duchovny's demanding career coupled with his womanizing ways soon drove a wedge between them. STRANGER THINGS' STAR SHANNON PURSER CONFESSES DARK STRUGGLE: 'SELF-HARM WAS SOMETHING I COULD TURN TO' "He was a lothario," says the insider. "Women flung themselves at him and he found them hard to resist." Things finally came to a head in 2008, and they briefly called it quits. Article continues below advertisement"Téa had grown suspicious that David was cheating on her and confronted him on several occasions, though he tried to deny it," the insider reveals. Heartbroken, the actress gave Duchovny an ultimatum: get treatment or get a divorce. He soon checked into The Meadows clinic in Arizona for sex addiction. (Ironically, he also played a sex addict in the series Californication from 2007 to 2014.) Rehab was just what the doctor ordered. The insider says it opened Duchovny's eyes to all the damage he was doing. RETAIL THERAPY! LAMAR ODOM STEPS OUT AGAIN AFTER HIS REHAB CRISIS!"Rehab saved him. It made him want to change his behavior and be less selfish." He and Leoni got back together, but the happy reunion didn't last, and by 2011, they split for good. "They tried to make it work, but they'd grown apart and lost the spark," the insider says. Duchovny still has regrets. "He never pretended to be perfect, but he's sorry for the hurt he caused," says the insider. "He wants Téa and his kids to know he did his best and he loves them — that will never change."Article continues below advertisementHis on-screen chemistry with X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson, 52, made headlines, but Duchovny insists nothing romantic ever happened between them. "There seems to be a certain kind of Twitter contingent that wants us to be together," he's said, "[but] Gillian and I are not lovers, or boyfriend and insider says Duchovny likely would have pursued Gillian, "but she was always with someone else, and David just wasn't her type." OOH, LA, LA! THESE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE SEX SCENES ARE NSFW & NOT *PARENT* APPROVEDThe duo didn't get along during the early days of The X-Files but eventually became good friends. When they reconnected for the 2018 reboot of the sci-fi cult favorite, Duchovny stood by Anderson's side as she demanded to be paid the same salary as her male co-star. Article continues below advertisement"He thought they should get paid equally," the insider says, adding they have no plans to reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully again anytime soon. "Gillian doesn't want to do it again. She's done, and David won't do it without her." Duchovny's got enough to keep him busy. He's hard at work on his third novel and he's passionate about his surprising new gig as a rock musician! (He's released two albums and has toured in Australia and New Zealand.)His kids have been his other saving grace. "He gets a lot of fulfillment out of fatherhood," says the insider. "He loves watching them grow into strong, independent adults." Daughter West is following in her parents' acting footsteps with the upcoming HBO Max series Vegas High. "David gives them advice on how to avoid the mistakes he made," the insider adds. "He tells them not to be tempted by all the glitter of Hollywood, and that what matters most in life is how you treat people." X-Files stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny reunited on Instagram with Anderson's dog, Stella. (Photo : Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are hanging out, and the internet is here for actors, who rose to fame as Dana Scully and Fox Mulder on the supernatural hit series The X-Files, reunited on Sunday, setting social media ablaze in the process."Stella made a new friend today," Anderson, 52, captioned the photo, which featured the dynamic duo smiling for the camera as they cuddled Anderson's new pup, fans went wild at the sight of the Anderson alongside Duchovny, 60. In the comments, Anderson's followers expressed their delight at seeing the iconic stars spending time with each other."Can’t you just marry already?!" one commenter chimed in with "I’ve just died a thousand deaths from one photo!!""The way you knew this would break the internet," another fan responded to the photo."My childhood heroes," one follower responded, drawing on the actors' many years of TV history together."Am I alive? Is this real!?" joked another commenter shocked by the rare and Duchovny starred together on the hit Fox science-fiction series from 1993 to 2002. In addition to two feature films, the duo reunited for two shorter follow-up seasons of the show in 2016 and Gillian Anderson’s talents are endlessWhile their Instagram meet-up has tongues wagging, it has yet to be clarified if the former co-stars reunited for work or play. However, it doesn't seem like the duo has plans to work together again anytime soon. Anderson is currently preparing to star as Eleanor Roosevelt in a TV series titled The First Lady, while Duchovny has been focused on his music career lately, Yahoo Life previously hangout comes just a few months after the announcement of Anderson's split from partner Peter Morgan. Back in December, it was announced that Anderson and the creator of the popular Netflix series The Crown would separate after four years. Anderson won a Golden Globe for her role as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the show in many people going through a breakup, Anderson turned to her furry friend after the split."Meet my new gf Stella," Anderson wrote in an Instagram post, sharing a photo of herself cuddling the young dog as she lounged on a pink more on Yahoo Entertainment:Madonna calls gun control 'a new vaccination' in passionate Instagram post: 'It will save lives'Damian Lewis writes emotional tribute to wife Helen McCrory following actress's death from cancer: 'Already I miss her'Moby says there are 'so many layers' to the Natalie Portman story The actor and author recently reunited with his former X-Files costar Gillian Anderson, and fans loved it Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission. "I was having lunch with [former X-Files costar Gillian Anderson], and as I was leaving she was like, 'Let's take a photo,'" he recalls in this week's issue of PEOPLE. "I was told there was a big reaction to it! I never get that stuff, but it's really cool that people are interested after all these years." Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. For more on David Duchovny, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny Credit: Gillian Anderson/Instagram Of course, in the decades since his hit show first premiered, the multi-talented Duchovny, 60, has been plenty busy in the acting, writing and music worlds. "There is still a lot of stuff I want to do," says the author, whose fifth literary venture, an Audible Original audio story, The Reservoir, premieres Thursday. (A singer-songwriter, he will also release his third album this year, Gestureland, and is working on a pilot for his novel, Truly Like Lightning.) The inspiration for Reservoir came in part thanks to quarantine last year. "I was in New York at home, and I thought about what it would be like if I saw someone who was flashing their lights because they were in trouble and needed help," says Duchovny. "It's a little bit like Rear Window, in a pandemic." David Duchovny Besides the creative nudge, Duchovny admits that unprecedented time at home did have some silver linings. "My son was with me and we spent pretty much the last year together 24/7," says Duchovny of 18-year-old Miller, whom he shares with ex-wife Tea Leoni. (They also have daughter West, 22.) "I'd always been working a lot so we'd never really done that before. And it was a beautiful thing. We weren't really on each other's nerves too much!" And Dad's creative talents are passing down to his kids. "My daughter is an actress and she's really terrific," says Duchovny. "And my son plays the guitar. He's very musical. And he's good. I'm just mediocre. I'm not good enough to play with him!" Gillian Anderson finally addresses those surgery rumours and rift with X Files co-star David DuchovnyThe actress spilled the beans on Jonathan RossGillian Anderson has denied having surgeryGillian Anderson's youthful complexion has certainly sparked a few rumours. Many fans tuning into Channel 5's X Files re-boot - 23 years after the original series hit screens, are convinced the actress must have had surgery to look so flawless. During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show , the US beauty finally addressed those stories. Slamming the rumours as completely false, she said: "I don’t really give a f*** because I know it’s not true. But the fact is, it's shaming. Let’s say that I had decided to, that’s my choice." READ MORE:X-Files racism storm as viewers accuse show of 'promoting Islamaphobia' Gillian's youthful complexion has triggered rumours ( Image: Fox) When the host commented that her male co-star David Duchovny wouldn’t have to put up with an article analysing his face for plastic surgery, Gillian joked: "Of course his whole face has been done!" During the chat, the actress also opened up about her headline-grabbing rift with X Files co-star David, which she confirmed was caused by her HAIR. Gillian confirmed her rift with X-Files co-star David Duchovny was over hair ( Image: 20thCentFox) "It’s so stupid," she giggled. "I can’t talk about this without just laughing and laughing, it’s just so silly. It takes women a lot longer than it takes men because, it’s very damp in Vancouver and so my hair gets frizzy. We shoot in the rain all the time and then I’m a drowned rat and then we have to wait around for them to blowdry it and everything. And so there’s a lot of waiting because of me. "It didn’t encourage our [friendship] but I got it, I understood… We were too much together but we’re incredibly friendly now." The Jonathan Ross Show is on ITV, Saturday at Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play

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