#californication

[billsloomis1996]

destruction leads to a very rough road,

but it also breeds creation

and earthquakes are to a girl’s guitar,

they’re just another good vibration

and tidal waves couldn’t save the world

from Californication.

#billy’s posts #stuilly #1996 #scream 1996 #billy loomis #stu macher #stu x billy #love 96 #stu and billy #moodboard #aesthetic #californication #red hot chili peppers

[zanephillips]

DAVID DUCHOVNY Californication 3.05 "Slow Happy Boys"

#david duchovny #californication #californicationedit #hank moody #tvedit #serie #actor #men #menedit #dilfgifs #dilfedit #gifs #mine #*

[gayzing-away]

David Duchovny in Californication (4x01)

#david duchovny #californication #gifs

[lappophotography]

Cypress trees and California coast look beautiful today.

#California #cypress trees #cypress point #cypress #californication #california coast #waves #surfinusa #surfing #rocks #photographers on tumblr #curators on tumblr #photography #travel #fujifilm #landscape #nature #fujixt2 #beautiful #forest #morning view #morning

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

#Red Hot Chili Peppers #Californication #Self titled #Format: #CD #Album #Repress #Released: #1999 #Alternative Rock #Funk #Funk metal #rap rock #USA

[riannosaurus]

📍reading on a bus, Los Angeles, California

#books and literature #books & libraries #books #queer books #original content by rian snead #bookstagram #book quotes #aesthetic #travel #travel photography #travel blog #los angeles #californication #california #trending #original photography on tumblr

[xenagabrielleforever]

#Carla Gugino #Spin City #Californication #Haunting of Hill House #Haunting of Bly Manor #Spy Kids #Sin City #Night at the Museum #Watchmen #Sucker Punch #San Andreas

[bobcronkphotography]

Golden Gate Bridge Close-Up

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

#golden gate bridge #san francisco #california #californication #bridges #bridge #suspension bridge #san francisco bay #bob cronk #original photography #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #bobcronkphotography #photography on tumblr #bob cronk photography

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Everyone’s gone UFO crazy. Maybe The X-Files should come back

Chrissy Iley

MARCH 2, 2024

Starring in a poignant new film adapted from his own novel, David Duchovny reveals the heartache of almost losing his daughter... and why his most famous show could yet return

No wonder David Duchovny has written, directed and stars in his latest movie Bucky F***ing Dent... it’s based on his own bestselling 2016 novel of the same name. Poignant and funny, it examines a father-son relationship via baseball, with X-Files star David playing Marty the dad, who’s dying of lung cancer, and Logan Marshall-Green from Spider-Man: Homecoming as his estranged son Ted.

The real Bucky Dent went down in history for scoring an unlikely home run for the New York Yankees in a 1978 tie-breaker against arch rivals the Boston Red Sox, and the film’s title is how generations of Boston fans have referred to him ever since, a metaphor for heartbreak. Set in that same year, the film follows struggling writer Ted as he moves back into his childhood home when he hears his father is dying, prompting a whirlwind of dark revelations from the past. Meanwhile, Boston fan Marty’s health dips whenever his beloved Red Sox lose, so New York fan Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Boston winning streak...

Marty has transferred his feelings for an old flame (the secret love of his life, not his wife) to the Red Sox. ‘The intensity of fandom has always puzzled me,’ says David. ‘It has to be a kind of sublimation. My father and I liked playing baseball; my best childhood memory is playing it with him and enjoying the simple communication you can have through a game, but we didn’t share the fandom thing.

‘Marty’s transposed his feelings for this woman to the Red Sox, and the movie is really about the idea of losing. In America there’s a sick addiction to winning and winners, but most of us have to lose every day. Suffering makes us human - it unites us all.’

There’s a moment in the film when Marty is talking about a chest infection that almost killed Ted as a child. Marty says he begged God or whoever to take his lungs instead and let Ted live. ‘One thing I’ve never told anyone is that when my daughter was nine months old she got really ill,’ reveals David. ‘Her mother [actress Tea Leoni] and I had to face the fact we might lose her and I remember feeling so devastated, I didn’t think I could love anything again if she died.’

His daughter West, now 24, has since become a successful actress who seems to have inherited her mother’s stunning blonde looks and her father’s charisma. ‘I think she has a greater passion for acting than either of her parents ever did,’ he says. They also have a son Kyd, 21, and David says the hardest moment of his life was telling them he and Tea were divorcing ten years ago, as his own parents had done when he was 12. ‘It was far worse telling them than actually experiencing it. When you’re a child you just try to get through it, you don’t feel responsible. As a parent I felt at least 50 per cent responsible.’

Tall and thin with good skin and an easy charm, David seems untouched by the ageing process, although this role is a huge shift from the Lotharios he usually plays, such as bed-hopping writer Hank in comedy-drama series Californication. Does getting older bother him? ‘Of course, and as an actor you have to think of the different roles you’ll be offered. When I was writing this script I was thinking I’d play Ted, the son. We tried to make it four or five years ago and I was still going to play Ted, but then when it came to doing it I realised it just wouldn’t work, so I thought I’d play Marty. And that was exciting because it was very different.’

Californication won two Emmys and a Golden Globe, but was notorious for its portrayal of LA’s seedier side. Does he think it could be made now? ‘Certainly they would insist on intimacy coaches, but I don’t think it would be made now, for the wrong reasons. There was a misunderstanding about what it was about. It was meant to be funny, and it was meant to be about family and love. But what everybody got excited about was not that,’ he says, referring to the furore over the sex scenes. ‘In my mind the show was misperceived.’

Another of David’s roles that would spark a row today was a transgender FBI agent in Twin Peaks in the early 90s, when almost no transgender women were on TV. Again it was groundbreaking. ‘But if you’re playing a murderer no one asks you, “Have you murdered people?”’ he says. ‘It was just being an actor.’

David is, of course, best known for The X-Files, in which he played UFO-obsessed FBI agent Mulder opposite Gillian Anderson’s sceptical Scully. The series finally bowed out in 2018 after 11 series, but could there ever be another? ‘Maybe - it might even be more current now,’ he says, referring to the recent release of top-secret UFO files in the US. ‘I’m not personally interested in UFOs so it doesn’t make it more exciting for me to revisit The X-Files. It was a role I played but I wasn’t passionate about the subject. Maybe I’m the only one who isn’t.’

There was a brouhaha at the time about the huge pay discrepancy between David and Gillian, and I wonder if it would be difficult for him to work with her again. ‘As far as I know, by the end there was no difference at all between us, but Hollywood salaries are very weird,’ he says. ‘I’m going to London soon and I’ll see Gillian because she lives there now. I saw her in the West End doing All About Eve and I enjoyed it. She wished me luck with Bucky too.’

In recent years David has explored his passion for music, releasing a couple of folk-rock albums. So does he see himself as an actor, a director or a musician? ‘All of them, I’m an artist,’ he says. ‘I can filter stuff through a song, a novel, a performance or through directing. There are all kinds of ways of being an artist. I write best about dramatic things. There’s a way to deal with suffering to create art.’

Bucky F***ing Dent, Glasgow Film Festival, Wednesday. Visit glasgowfilm.org

#david duchovny #2024 #bucky F cking Dent #Glasgow Film Festival #txf #Gillian Anderson #Californication

[zanephillips]

David Duchovny in Californication 4.01 “Exile on Main St.“

#david duchovny #davidduchovnyedit #californication #californicationedit #hank moody #hankmoodyedit #tvedit #serie #serieedit #tvshowedit #actor #gif #mine #*

[gayzing-away]

David Duchovny in Californication (4x01)

#david duchovny #californication #gifs

[oscarhmtech]

Maggie Grace

#Maggie Grace #actress #lost #californication #fear the walking dead

[gothicoquette]

I hope everyone is ready for this #2014 revival! 💋

#2014 nostalgia #2014 revival #bring back 2014 #2014core #2014 tumblr #2014 aesthetic #2014 grunge #2014 girl #i miss 2014 #2014 vibes #kylie jenner #california #californication #coquette #girlblogger #aesthetic #girlblogging #eos #pink blog #tumblr 2014 #tumblr girls #summer #indie sleaze #dollette #indie #kendall jenner #fashion model #victoria secret #victorious #vs angel

[mindibindi]

The fact that Mulder and Scully never got a well-lit, well-shot kiss unencumbered by obstacles of any variety (be they bosses, babies or broken bones) is made all the more frustrating by the fact that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson both look like really, REALLY good kissers. DD has played a lot of sexy/romantic roles; "Californication" alone gives ample evidence of his kissing prowess. Gillian hasn't played as many roles requiring make-out skills but she does this thing in "Playing By Heart" where she pulls back from Jon Stewart's mouth and traces his lips with hers.... 😳😳😳 She does a similar thing in the FTF blooper kiss, where she pulls back from David/Mulder and makes his mouth chase hers. She teases him a bit with her tongue before diving in... 🥴🤯🤤 and YES, she is hamming it up for the crew (not us cos we were never supposed to see it GRR). Actually, she hams up that moment more than David, who just plays it straight. That is NOT how Scully would kiss Mulder for the first time. (Maybe for the second time. But even so. Mulder would be like: Wait a minute. Nice girls don't kiss like that. And Scully would be like: Oh yes they fucking do.... And then do it again). Those blooper kisses are ALL Gillian, not Scully. And as grateful as I am that the kisses Gillovny tried so hard to insert into the M/S narrative leaked, I can't even believe THEM as real Mulder and Scully kisses. In short (not that this is news): WE WERE ROBBED. Over and over and over again. Because not only do DD and GA have the most epic chemistry in television history, not only do Mulder and Scully have the most epic love story in television history, NOT ONLY do DD and GA have the most kissable lips in television history, I believe to this day that they also possess the oral skills to elevate a well-lit, well-shot, well-timed, completely unencumbered kiss to the most sensual and satisfying consummation of sexual tension of all time. Only Chris Carter is a puritan so. Here we are. 30 years later.

#txf #the x files #kiss #mulder x scully #fox mulder #dana scully #gillian anderson #david duchovny #msr #gillovny #bless them for trying to rectify this mess #i apologise if this post made anyone wanna hot to kiss DD GA both or just in general #ftf #chris carter #is a puritan who can't separate sex from reproduction #the fact that this state of affairs was not remedied in the reboot is a travesty #bridget jones ref #californication #playing by heart