David Duchovny believes X-Files improved his acting
David Duchovny David Duchovny thinks hit sci-fi show The X-Files helped his become a better actor.
The star played FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder alongside Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully from 1993-2002, turning both stars into household names.
Duchovny told The Associated Press: "Every day I had to go to work and every day for 14 hours year after year after year. I don't know if I would've made it to this point if I'd just gone from movie to movie to movie like a three-month stint here and a three-month stint there.
"It was very good for me and my particular sense of myself or my craft to have to go in every day and do it.
"I was kind of blissfully over-confident at first and I don't say that as a joke. I knew I thought I was good. Not great. Not in a conceited or cocky way, but in a way like, 'Yes, I can do this.' You need in a way to believe sometimes."
Duchovny also revealed he didn't get into acting until his late twenties after wanting to become a writer.
"I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature not for acting. I liked the idea of collaboration and I thought if I'm gonna write plays I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. It might help me as a writer to actually know it from that side. So that's pretty much how it started."
Duchovny now stars in comedy drama Californication which is now in its fifth series.