"David Duchovny"
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67 min
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What It Covers
David Duchovny discusses his transition from Yale PhD studies to acting, X-Files success, writing novels, making music, and balancing multiple creative disciplines.
Notable Moment
Duchovny describes his first theatrical performance adapting a Charles Bukowski necrophilia story using a weighted blow-up doll in a converted S&M dungeon venue.
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by Samuel Beckett
“writing his thesis on Samuel Beckett novels before abandoning PhD studies for acting”
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