'X-FILES 2' DAY: The Story of a Set Visit
Not your average day at the office
A few make small talk with her while we're allowed to explore the bedroom. Good. There's one thing I've been searching for since entering this pad: Mulder's infamous porn stash. All I see in here is a copy of D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers." Never read it. No idea what it's even about, but I'm pretty sure it's not "Jugs" for the intellectual crowd.
Then Spotnitz points to the side of the room and is like, bathroom's back there. Nothing remarkable about it except there's a scene that plays in there.
Well, that's remarkable enough for me and it's a logical place for the girlie mags too. Right on the toilet — if indeed Mulder still subscribes to true bachelorhood. So I mosey over to the commode. It's a true horror flick crapper. Very clean. No porn. It's all bright white with hexagon floor tiles and one of those real big clawtubs that horror flicks love to fill full of the red stuff. Only thing missing is the smell of bleach.
So I'm beginning to think they didn't leave Mulder's smut out for us reporters to see. You know, maybe the man has moved on to the Internet like the rest of the world — despite his house having nothing to do with the modern world.
We're shuffling off the set and past a kitchen full of old-style appliances — a kitchen only slightly newer than the one Jackie Gleeson would threaten a beat down for Audrey Meadows in — when a reporter says, it looks like such a period house. 1920s or something. Sort of gives The X-Files a retro feel.
And Spotnitz goes, yeah it's meant to be sort of timeless –
We don't want anything to feel fashionable or of the moment.
We always intended for the series to wear well.
We gather at the bottom of the porch near some evergreens and encircle Spotnitz and toss more questions his way. This and that. This and that. No specific answers or anything. Can you say what familiar faces might be returning other than Mulder and Scully? Mitch Pileggi? And Spotnitz is like, I can't say.
Then out from the mist a massive, black beast ambles by us. Werewolf? No. Jesus Zeus, it's a poodle. On steroids… and growth hormones… and a steady diet of Canadian dwarves perhaps. No one seems to notice this. Too busy asking Spotnitz stuff. Or maybe they're use to seeing poodles large enough to play fetch with '91 Ford Fiestas. I don't know. And before I can even ask is that the movie's monster or is someone breeding Hulk poodles around here, the hellhound slinks gracefully back to the shadows and smog.
Spotnitz keeps talking. The fog is thickening. And hammers strike and echo from some hidden place in the building. Shadows coil and shunt off the hedges of fog like twisted steel sculptures and something's burning around here. I smell it. Maybe nothing. But are the smoke machines still running properly? No one can say.
Our X-Files 2 coverage doesn't end here. Be sure to read our interviews as well at the following links:
- David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
- Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
- Chris Carter ("The X-Files" series creator, executive producer and X-Files 2 producer, co-writer, and director)
- Frank Spotnitz ("The X-Files" series executive producer and X-Files 2 producer and co-writer)
- X-Files 2 Info Page
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