David Duchovny

You probably know David Duchovny from decades on our screens as the FBI agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files and the TV show Californication, as well as the recent Judd Apatow film The Bubble and last year's Netflix hit The Chair, a campus comedy in which David plays himself – taking the mick out of himself. It’s not often that Hollywood and literary fiction collide in this way but David Duchovny is in fact now a successful novelist as well as a musician and actor, with four novels under his belt and a new novella, The Reservoir, out this June. We talk about how David originally intended his debut, Holy Cow, to be a film until it was turned down everywhere he took the idea, how he planned to be a professor and use holidays to write – his father was a magazine writer and playwright so it was a long held dream of David’s to be a writer too – and how his teenage poetry was bad, just like (he says) his early acting skills. You can find me on Twitter at @francescasteele and Instagram at @Francesca_steele Please do rate or review the podcast on your Apple podcast app – it helps more people find out about Write-Off, and also I just really like seeing the reviews! This season is sponsored by the wonderful Jericho Writers Listeners of the podcast can get an exclusive 15% discount on membership by going to and entering the code Write-Off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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David Duchovny is an episode from Write-Off with Francesca Steele by Francesca Steele.

This episode is 45:47 long.

This episode was published on Apr 21, 2022.

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