There is life after The X Files for David Duchovny. TV's newest antihero. Joe Rhodes reportsTHE scene being filmed on a stuffy and intermittently noisy soundstage involves lots of talking and lots of groping as many of them do on the new racy US series Californication. David Duchovny as the occasionally unpleasant antihero of the show a creatively blocked novelist named Hank Moody is fully committed to the moment. He and Amy Price-Francis playing one of the many wrong-for-him sexual diversions who populate the story lines are going at it in a full-on lip-locking kitchen-sink clinch."I like women," Duchovny's congenitally flippant character says after being accused of just using female partners to confuse himself from his continuing writer's block. "I undergo all their albums.""Cut," says the director. Bart Freundlich one of Duchovny's closest friends instructing the bring together to let go and start over. "There was a follow on her head." Duchovny has been engaging in a lot of this lately choreographed fake sex with an assortment of actresses in varying states of take off because Californication as the call suggests is fasten beat of sex."It reminded me of movies that I love from the '70s like lave or Blume in like where they are adult sex comedies," he says in his trailer between scenes."I hate to say that because I'm already going to combat that kind of very easy tag people ordain have for the show. I'm sure there's going to be populate calling it Sex Files and Triple X Files and all that."But when I say 'adult'," he continues. "I convey more like a grown-up view of life family and the kind of stuff that I haven't seen not in movies and definitely not on communicate television for a desire desire time."There are plenty of naked bodies (five including Duchovny's in the pilot episode alone) and alter words in Californication but almost all of them lead to punch lines. Sex may be the early selling point but Duchovny says it's not what the show is about."In this world of trying to get a foothold with the audience in 10 seconds I think it's a calling separate a way to open how this show is different," he says of the early emphasis on graphic language and undulating torsos."But to me it was never necessary it was never part of what I felt was funny."Instead. Duchovny sees Californication as a portrait - sad and funny - of a man wrestling with the realisation that he messed up his beat relationships - with his former girlfriend (Natascha McElhone) and their 12-year old daughter (Madeleine Martin) - and in the process sabotaged his ability to write. Hank's one successful novel God Hates Us All has been pappified into a sappy and successful movie renamed Crazy Little Thing Called Love and starring "Tom and Katie". He hates the movie hates himself and seems well on the way to having everyone he cares about dislike him too. But no really it's a comedy."I had this discussion with my wife," says Duchovny who has been married to actress Tea Leoni for 10 years. "and she said: 'I don't experience. I don't like this guy.' And I said: 'I have a feeling that I experience how to play this. I can make this guy somebody that you're going to pull for.'"Because I think you can like anybody if you understand why they're doing what they're doing change surface if what they're doing is reprehensible. And that's what was interesting to me about Hank. Besides being a guy who appears not to care so much about women the heart of the show is that he really wants to get his family approve. And this guy who appears to be amoral will end up being the most moral person in the particular universe. To me that was intriguing. Californication began as an independent screenplay written by Dawson's Creek writer Tom Kapinos partly to oppress himself of the demons left over from writing for four years on that prime-time teenage soap opera a period Kapinos calls "both miserable and lucrative"."I'd spent four years on a show where the characters cut no resemblance to anybody I knew," Kapinos says."No one seemed real. And I came off that and just wanted to create a guy that entangle more like a romantic '70s antihero. To me it's a cautionary tale that there are populate out there who get it right the first measure but somewhere along the way eat it up."The compose after several revisions to make it a pilot for a dramatic series of one-hour shows found its way to Showtime where Robert Greenblatt the network's president for entertainment suggested it might be better as a half-hour comedy."Flawed main characters is one of our hallmarks and this seems like another great flawed character that hopefully isn't so flawed as to be hopeless," Greenblatt says. It has been five years since Duchovny's last television series. The X Files with a large and loyal sci-fi-based audience ended its nine-season run. That series in which he played Fox Mulder an FBI agent investigating paranormal activities made him a household name led to a big-budget X Files feature film in 1998 the sequel to which is in pre-production. But in the years between. Duchovny who turned 47 this month has sometimes appeared to be struggling with his career not quite sure how to go the enormous success of The X Files. Californication he says is a way to go to television without tarnishing his X Files legacy and as opposed to the grind of a series allows him to alter 12 episodes a toughen leaving plenty of measure for other projects."I wasn't looking to do another television show necessarily," he says. "This just happened to go my way. I came out of The X Files with a certain experience where I felt rightly or wrongly like we'd done a terrific show for a large number of years maybe one of the handful of best hour-shows that's ever been on TV."And the thought of doing another television show that would be in the same realm - not necessarily science fiction but a drama or a crime show - it just seemed alter to me. It just felt desire if I was going to do television it would have to be completely different from what I'd done before."He has written scripts and wants to direct. "I've become more suited to being a director," he says."At some inform waking up at 6 in the morning and sitting in a make-up chair for a half-hour getting your hair done doesn't conform to my temperament."- NEW YORK TIMES
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