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Lunghissima featurette che ci porta dietro le quinte di X-Files insieme a Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson e alle altre figure chiave della serie tv di culto.
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00:01There was something out there.
00:03What do you possibly hope to find Agent Mulder?
00:08The truth is out there.
00:11You're wrong. I can't tell you how wrong you've always been.
00:18Scully?
00:20The X-Files is really back as a result of its fans.
00:25We wouldn't be coming back without them.
00:27Chris knows the material in his bones.
00:30He has a real clear vision of this world.
00:32There's a particular kind of enthusiasm that people have right now for this coming back.
00:38Being back working with David and Jillian is just like riding a bike.
00:41All three of us just fell right back into it.
00:43I cannot believe I'm here. I can't believe they're here.
00:46There's no such thing as an X-Files episode that's not challenging.
00:51I can imagine what that must be like as a fan.
00:54You see these familiar faces and the familiar crossbeams of light coming out of the darkness
01:00and hear that soundtrack.
01:06It was really putting the band back together.
01:09The people you're going to see doing these episodes are the people who actually helped to create the X-Files
01:15series.
01:15He knew that the first and the sixth were mythology episodes and then ones in the middle would be stand
01:21-alones.
01:21That was really whatever Jim and Darren and I came up with.
01:24I knew that there was a big interest from the fans to see more monster stuff.
01:30But also we have a big fandom based around the mythology.
01:33You want to satisfy the mythology of it.
01:35And then there's going to be stand-alones and of those stand-alones there's going to be one that's funnier
01:40than the others.
01:41Looks like you gave it a pretty good shot.
01:43I think I hit it right in its horn.
01:47It had a horn? Like a unicorn?
01:50Horns. Like a lizard or something.
01:52I like the idea that we're not doing just one story or we're not just doing stand-alone separate episodes.
01:58We're doing a combination because that's what the show always was.
02:00Even in a stand-alone episode there's some story to advance that's not just about the case.
02:06We've always tried to have kind of a human element.
02:09It was always tied to how it affected Mulder and Scully as human beings.
02:13And same here.
02:14You look exhausted, Mulder.
02:16It was a long day at the office.
02:17They're going through all these weird stories, but the through line is them confronting their age and confronting their life
02:25choices.
02:25You ran the X-Files. You were the X-Files. You all but wrote the book.
02:29I'm afraid that book is closed.
02:31I also are the X-Files.
02:34The X-Files are a unit at the FBI. X stands for the unknown.
02:39These are the cases that the FBI either has put away or has left unsolved.
02:44Agent Mulder picked up this investigation.
02:47His quest came as a result of his belief that his sister had been abducted by aliens.
02:52I was 12 when it happened.
02:54My sister was 8.
02:55She just disappeared out of her bed one night.
02:57He kind of derails his own stellar young career at the Bureau to start chasing after aliens.
03:04He starts getting close and the Bureau itself is alerted to this guy who's rattling too many cages.
03:10And they assign a younger agent who's a medical doctor, Dana Scully, to debunk Mulder's research.
03:18And that's how we began.
03:20Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?
03:23Logically, I would have to say no.
03:25But she is ultimately enlisted in Mulder's quest.
03:29She becomes as involved in the X-Files as he.
03:31I came to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life and in a conspiracy inside the government to keep their
03:40existence a secret.
03:42Through the course of the show, when it ran for over 200 episodes, the characters grew.
03:47I failed in every respect.
03:49You only fail if you give up.
03:51And I know you.
03:53You can't give up.
03:54Mulder and Scully, for nine years, had a platonic relationship.
03:58Even though we suggest that they have a child together, we never saw them as a couple until the second
04:03movie, where we saw them definitely together.
04:05When we come back to them in the new series, we will have been honest to their relationship previously.
04:11But we now find them in another state.
04:13Seven or eight years have elapsed.
04:15Time has been difficult for their relationship.
04:18We will investigate what's happened in that time.
04:20It's good for you to get out of that little house every once in a while.
04:24Certainly was good for you.
04:25I think that where we find Mulder and Scully perfectly delivers us into a similar dynamic that we've had before,
04:33which is huge intimacy and appreciation and yet frustration, but still love and care and potential.
04:41I'm always happy to see you.
04:43And I'm always happy to find a reason.
04:46In the past week, we've had some pretty quintessentially Mulder-Scully scenes.
04:51With the distance of time, there's a new appreciation for those and what they mean and bring and the excitement
04:59that one can imagine the audience will have.
05:02Yeah.
05:03I'm here.
05:04You know, character doesn't change.
05:06Mulder and Scully, they're not going to change profoundly, but they're going to age, and that is its own kind
05:11of profound change.
05:12I'm a middle-aged man, Scully.
05:14Maybe it's time to put away childish things.
05:16And that was always important, to not play the same exact characters doing the same things, because 22 years have
05:22passed.
05:22I don't do stairs anymore.
05:24Mulder, back in the day, I used to do stairs and in three-inch heels.
05:27Back in the day is now.
05:30I think it was about tapping into her innocence.
05:33I think it wasn't until I kind of got back into that zone that I started to remember her a
05:40bit more on a physiological level.
05:42It's like an unconscious, intuitive thing to get back into that character that you've played for so long.
05:48There's a bit of rustiness in the beginning, first couple days, but after that, I feel pretty Mulder-like, showing
05:53up on set.
05:54Just listen to me.
05:55No, you listen to me, Mulder.
05:56Scully, you've got to trust me on this.
05:59It's fun.
06:00It's fun to be in the middle of it.
06:06One of the reasons I was excited about coming back is we're dealing with a world that has changed completely
06:12from the time when the series ended in 2002,
06:16which was not long after the World Trade Center bombing.
06:19The American public had put their faith completely in the government.
06:22They didn't want to know about government conspiracies.
06:24They wanted to know that their government was protecting them.
06:26It feels like a lot of the things that Mulder was warning us of kind of came true.
06:31All of us are tracked on our phones.
06:34There's drones up ahead.
06:35So much has changed in the world, and the X-Files now gets a chance to tell stories from that
06:40perspective.
06:419-11 was a false flag operation.
06:44It was a warm-up to World War III.
06:46Joe McHale plays Tad O'Malley, who's a conservative talk show host.
06:49Just knowing that I was going to be able to be on this series that I am a massive fan
06:54of, I couldn't believe my good fortune.
06:57And then you meet David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
07:00They are so cool, and I asked them way too many questions.
07:03I think they detected that I was a fan, especially when I asked them to sign my skin with a
07:08tattoo needle.
07:08I cast Joel McHale after seeing his appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which was hilarious, and he had
07:17exactly the quality I was looking for.
07:19He is very conservative, but his ideas about conspiracy theories match up exactly with Mulder's.
07:26It's all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
07:32My character wants to get a hold of Mulder, and that's how it starts.
07:36Join me for a little ride?
07:36Right here is fine.
07:38Low-flying aircraft often employ what they call dirt boxes to record conversations, and I prefer private.
07:43Aircraft employed by whom?
07:45He's really an amalgamation of so many characters on the Internet who believe that there is not just an alien
07:51conspiracy, but a possible conspiracy of men.
07:54What I need is your expertise.
07:55Our expertise for what?
07:57I'm rattling some pretty big cages in the intelligence community.
07:59I start a ball rolling that turns into a boulder.
08:03Where are they?
08:04The files.
08:06I don't know where they are.
08:07He said no one had been down here.
08:08It hadn't been touched.
08:09Not for 13 years since you and Scully left the bureau.
08:12Originally, I think that Skinner was brought in to be somewhat of a roadblock to what Mulder and Scully were
08:18doing.
08:18And I think after a certain point, he realized that what these two agents were trying to do was to
08:24bring the truth out.
08:25So Skinner eventually became their champion.
08:29He still is a company man, but perhaps not looked on with favor because he's been an assistant director for
08:34almost 25 years now.
08:35Perhaps a lot of that has to do with his relationship with Mulder and Scully.
08:39I need access to the X-Files.
08:41Can you tell me what this is about?
08:42We both kind of just fell right back into Mulder and Skinner right away and just seemed natural.
08:46And it was fun.
08:47And you owe me some answers.
08:48Just calm the hell down, Mulder, before we both get pissed off.
08:52For episode one, I came up with a young woman who was an alien abductee.
08:57We cast a lovely actress named Annette Mahindru.
09:00You probably don't recognize me.
09:03No, I think I'd remember.
09:05The story is going somewhere really, really fascinating and something that's very timely right now.
09:10Chris is tapping into something very important.
09:13Annette asked me questions about her character, which were unexpected.
09:16And actually, I rewrote the script based on some of her questions.
09:19She was thinking about the character in a way that sometimes writers don't.
09:23We really get to see who she is.
09:25Chris gave me a lot of story to play with.
09:28Where she came from, why she's here.
09:30These are from over 20 years.
09:32How many times have you been abducted, Sveta?
09:34I lost count, and then there are the screen memories they implant.
09:38The memories implanted over actual memories to make abductees forget.
09:42I'm familiar with the syndrome.
09:43Scully has also been abducted, and so she's very reluctant to go back there again.
09:49She's a very good actress, and I enjoyed the depth that she brought to that character.
09:55It was nice to play off of her.
09:57You were a couple before.
09:58I'm sorry, what?
09:59You and Mr. Mulder, and you have a child together.
10:03Mulder and Scully have a child.
10:05We were always very vague about how that happened,
10:08and since there was no apparent time or place, that child could have been conceived.
10:12But it becomes a larger question as we move forward.
10:15As parents, we made a difficult sacrifice to keep him safe.
10:23It was for his own good to put him up for adoption.
10:26But I can't help but think of him, Fox.
10:29There's guilt, definitely, for giving up a child, even if it was for its own safety.
10:34The most interesting thing to me is imagining what your life would be if you had raised the child.
10:39He'd be 15 years old now.
10:48It brought up some incredibly interesting, profound subject matters about family, abandonment, life, unanswered questions.
10:58It's always fun as an actor to do material that is challenging.
11:04I believe that you will find the answers to the biggest mysteries, and I will be there when you do.
11:09But my mysteries, I'll never have answered.
11:15I'm not going to reveal to you exactly how we play with mythology, but we do.
11:20I like the twist that Chris put on the mythology.
11:23We've already announced that the cigarette smoking man will be back on the show,
11:27and I think we're honest to what happened to him in the series finale,
11:31and how he might have survived what looked like certain death.
11:35We have a small problem.
11:36Mulder is my enemy, but he's also someone I want, and of course I won't tell you what happens.
11:44We are playing with this mythology in a whole new way,
11:47and the government's secreting of evidence about extraterrestrials might come into play.
11:52In 1973, the syndicate was convened to assist in a project to colonize the world by creating alien-human hybrids.
11:59The project was ultimately unsuccessful.
12:01I doubt they ever stopped trying.
12:07Coming back together, being on the set again, was a powerful thing,
12:10but there's so much hard work to be done because we knew that coming back,
12:14the series isn't going to be good if it's only a victory lap.
12:17It has to be original and fresh and as good as it's ever been,
12:21so you've got to get down to business.
12:23The first day was unbelievable, and I was trying to play it cool.
12:27So I know this is Dana Scully and Fox Mulder.
12:29Hi.
12:30My little kid inside of me was just like, ah!
12:32David and Jillian just sat back into Scully and Mulder and was incredible.
12:37Then the second day, we were downtown Vancouver in a scene during lunchtime.
12:41So there was a thousand people watching us.
12:44They were very excited that David Duchovny and Jillian Anderson were on the street.
12:49Joel McHale was like, is this what it's like when you guys film outside all the time?
12:52I was like, no, this is a special occasion.
12:54We tried to find parts of Vancouver that can play for parts of Washington, D.C.
12:58and create everything else digitally.
13:00I wrote this sequence, this crash, which may or may not be Roswell in the first episode,
13:06and as is often the case when you're dealing with Mark Freeborn and his art department,
13:10they came up with a UFO crash that was so much bigger and better than I ever imagined it would
13:17be.
13:18Chris had specific notions about what the crash should be.
13:22It was a pretty good jumping off point.
13:24I think everybody wanted to see the 1950s classic flying saucer,
13:27the one that created all the fear and all the wonder.
13:29We probably made a bigger one than has been made for TV.
13:33The saucer was 50 feet in diameter, life-size.
13:37It took a team of painters and sculptors and visual effects.
13:42It was really just all hands on deck.
13:44Pre-built everything in the city, break it down into its component parts,
13:47ship it all up there and then reassemble it.
13:48I remember coming over the rise and we were in this huge, vast land,
13:53and it was this giant flying saucer.
13:55I was like, oh my God, this is a huge $100 million movie.
13:59I got a shiver because I knew I'm part of something really special.
14:02The crash site is photographed practically.
14:05The actual crash itself was achieved through visual effects.
14:08And that's a combination of CG animation for the UFO.
14:12And then we had particle simulation.
14:13We needed to have it blend seamlessly with the practical UFO set.
14:17Visual effects took care of the actual flying,
14:19but we supplied all of the practical, tangible assets.
14:23Three wrecked aircraft, a trench that was about 300 yards long,
14:28and practical explosives to create the crash landing of the craft.
14:32There will be an air cannon here.
14:33We will be shooting up debris.
14:36Chris could get his actors right beside the craft,
14:39feel the craft as a real entity.
14:42You arrive on the set and you see what you could only imagine.
14:45I was blown away.
14:47X-Files is generally a lot of character-driven action.
14:50This has been very action-heavy for X-Files.
14:53And as the scripts come in, you don't have a lot of time to react.
14:57We had all sorts of stunt people and stunt driving.
15:00There was a lot of killing and the ripping apart of people.
15:03Scully takes down a guy.
15:05Jillian did it all herself.
15:06She looked great and slick.
15:08I had five or six stunt people fully engulfed on fire.
15:12That takes a lot of timing and fueling, and it's dangerous.
15:15You have to be methodical about how you do that.
15:18We had multiple elements.
15:20We had shots with visual effects.
15:21Mulder had to be thrown down a hallway.
15:24Most of that was done with a stunt harness rig.
15:27Visual effects was just doing a sort of wire removal.
15:30With all the action that we do, Chris always wants it to be,
15:32I believe that could happen.
15:34Even though there's monsters and aliens,
15:36it has to make sense and it has to look realistic.
15:39I find it fun to try to learn things that I don't know.
15:43We see a side of Mulder we haven't seen before.
15:46He busts out some fight skills.
15:47In the X-Files, we want to be real.
15:50How would Mulder fight?
15:51And both Chris and David had the same answer.
15:54Whatever you learn in Quantico.
15:56After the punch, he comes in with his left.
15:58You scoop it here and come on the inside for a hug.
16:01The other character in the fight is the room.
16:03How the room is in the set design very much dictates how the fight goes.
16:08What can we wreck?
16:09What can we smash through?
16:10What gets destroyed?
16:11So we started there and choreographed a fight when we were to smash that window.
16:16That desk goes, breakaway chair over here.
16:18We broke it up into three to five moves for David so that he could learn that piece
16:25and David could do most of it himself.
16:28It was two lines in a script and it ended up taking us nine hours to shoot it.
16:32Who sent you?
16:33If we're lucky, we'll get a hint of what's coming down the pipe
16:36and they can start building or designing towards that.
16:38Get a little bit of a head start, especially for makeup effects.
16:41It's a fresh gal.
16:46I always wanted a more kind of classic universal horror,
16:49Creature of the Black Lagoon type of thing.
16:51But I also need expressions and to do some kind of funny stuff with the monster.
16:56So he's got to be more mobile.
16:57Rather than go through a 10-hour process of covering someone head to toe,
17:01we took the approach of making it all as large prosthetic appliances,
17:05pre-painting everything in my shop.
17:07When we went to set, it was just a matter of assembling the puzzle.
17:09The special effects makeup guy, you know, when you go monster,
17:12that's what they live for.
17:13They turn into a monster.
17:14They become their own creation.
17:17Did that just happen?
17:22A decade of my life in this office in search of the truth.
17:26All the time I was being led by my nose through a dark alley to a dead end,
17:30exactly as they planned.
17:32The poster has become so iconic.
17:34It's really the heart of the show because it doesn't say I believe.
17:37It says I want to believe.
17:38It's the struggle to find the truth.
17:41You always wondered if they weren't lying to you too.
17:45The title of the first episode is My Struggle.
17:47I was reading a terrific series of books by a guy named Knausgaard,
17:52the first one called My Struggle, about his life.
17:54And so I thought, why not get into the intimate detail of Mulder's life?
17:58Scully, listen to me.
17:59I've been misled.
18:00We've been misled.
18:01But episode six will also be called My Struggle,
18:04but it'll be Scully's struggle.
18:06And you'll see the details of her struggle through her own eyes.
18:09You have something to tell me.
18:11Something you need to know.
18:12There's a part of me always that comes to the show as a fan.
18:15And in just a few scenes, I really have a lot of rich material to play.
18:20When I see the pilot, I'm just reminded about all the hard work that went into it,
18:25all the mistakes, all the potential, the nights in the forest with David and Jillian,
18:31the pouring rain, the freezing cold.
18:33That pilot was a miracle.
18:34So for me, I'm reminded when you believe in something
18:37and you have passion for something, it pays off.
18:39I have seen this before, believing that you're onto some truth, that you can save the world.
18:44This will finally be their undoing.
18:46It'll be your undoing, Mulder.
18:48I like the intimate scenes between Mulder and Scully that bring us closer together,
18:52adding to the history of the series.
18:54Listen to me.
18:55As your friend and as a physician, you are on dangerous ground here.
19:00I know what I'm doing.
19:01You could possibly make 12 different shows out of this show.
19:04It's a very flexible frame in terms of tonality, in terms of action, in terms of mythology,
19:10in terms of subject matter.
19:11It can go a lot of different ways.
19:12And the fans, I think, like all those ways that it goes.
19:15It doesn't look anything like this.
19:18The thing I saw only had two eyes, and it was wearing underwear.
19:22Boxers or briefs?
19:24On the one hand, it feels like no time has passed,
19:28and that we've just kind of picked up where we've left off.
19:30And on the other hand, when we ran the other day.
19:37Oh, sorry.
19:38A bit of privacy, please.
19:39If you're going to do X-Files, do it to the nth degree.
19:42I think I did that.
19:43I've been nude.
19:44I've been transformed.
19:46I've been sexed.
19:48I've done it all.
19:49The fans are obviously very excited it's returning.
19:52The phenomenon is still there.
19:54The truth is still out there.
19:55Maybe it's a foot.
19:57It was definitely an animal.
19:58Animals don't shoot blood out of their eyeballs.
20:00Well, tell that to the horned lizard,
20:01which shoots blood out its eyeballs, Scully.
20:04Mulder, the internet is not good for you.
20:06It's so wonderful to be a small part of this universe that I love so much.
20:09It's really fun to walk into this cultural phenomenon and be a part of it,
20:13and to see these actors playing these iconic roles again.
20:17This is dangerous.
20:18When has that ever stopped us before?
20:21I'm part of television history right now.
20:23There are very few, if any, shows that have the same recognition as the X-Files.
20:28I'm just so glad that when I die, people will say he was in the X-Files.
20:32I want to prepare you for what you're about to see, Mr. Mulder.
20:35There aren't really any shows quite like it on TV anymore.
20:38All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread and see what it unravels.
20:42The story that it sets up is really interesting.
20:45You've never been in more danger than do something about it.
20:48Reopening the X-Files is magical.
20:57Are you ready for this?
20:59I don't know.
21:00There's a choice.
21:03Here's a choice.
21:15Grazie a tutti.
21:33Grazie a tutti.
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