'The X-Files: I Want To Believe' Euro Premiere
BIO was on the Leicester Square red carpet to greet the stars and speak to David Duchovny and Chris Carter. The very pregnant Gillian Anderson was elusively media shy.
So there are fans, and then there are really scary fans. 'The X-Files' seems to have no shortage of either, as hundreds crowded around The Empire cinema in Leciester Square for the European premiere of the second X-Files film, 'I Want To Believe'. One large and extremely loud contingent had flown all the way from Germany and sported uniform shirts, banners, a girl who constantly burst into tears (of joy or grief, we could not decide) and one fan x-phile with his hair spectacularly shaved, blonded and spiked into an x.
After enduring an endless line of screaming, begging and apparently tearful fans, the patience of X-Files star David Duchovny, aka FBI special agent Fox Mulder, seemed to be wearing rather thin. He made no particular effort to court the press, although given some of the questions being fired at him from over-zealous reporters, one is reluctant to blame him. Dodging personal questions about politics (asked whether he supported Obama or McCain in the US presidential elections, Duchovny answered Obama, before catching himself and dismissing the line of questioning with "but this is neither the time or the place"), the welfare of his 'Californication' co-star Natasha McElhone, whose husband passed away unexpectedly in May of this year, and refusing to read radio tag lines, he was however more forthcoming about questions relating to the new film. We were also relieved to learn that the frightening beard Mulder sports at the beginning of the film is, indeed, fake.
'I Want To Believe' has copped no shortage of criticism over its glaring lack of the paranormal mysteries and terrors which defined the source TV series. Unsurprisingly, when asked whether he would welcome a third film (the possibility of which seems to be slipping away, given the lukewarm critical reception and modest box office returns), Duchovny enthused that he - and his fake beard - would be signed up in a flash, but that he would like to see see a return to the world of aliens, adding that "I think we would go back to that kind of mythology and get to the heart of what Mulder is looking for."
So there are fans, and then there are really scary fans. 'The X-Files' seems to have no shortage of either, as hundreds crowded around The Empire cinema in Leciester Square for the European premiere of the second X-Files film, 'I Want To Believe'. One large and extremely loud contingent had flown all the way from Germany and sported uniform shirts, banners, a girl who constantly burst into tears (of joy or grief, we could not decide) and one fan x-phile with his hair spectacularly shaved, blonded and spiked into an x.
After enduring an endless line of screaming, begging and apparently tearful fans, the patience of X-Files star David Duchovny, aka FBI special agent Fox Mulder, seemed to be wearing rather thin. He made no particular effort to court the press, although given some of the questions being fired at him from over-zealous reporters, one is reluctant to blame him. Dodging personal questions about politics (asked whether he supported Obama or McCain in the US presidential elections, Duchovny answered Obama, before catching himself and dismissing the line of questioning with "but this is neither the time or the place"), the welfare of his 'Californication' co-star Natasha McElhone, whose husband passed away unexpectedly in May of this year, and refusing to read radio tag lines, he was however more forthcoming about questions relating to the new film. We were also relieved to learn that the frightening beard Mulder sports at the beginning of the film is, indeed, fake.
'I Want To Believe' has copped no shortage of criticism over its glaring lack of the paranormal mysteries and terrors which defined the source TV series. Unsurprisingly, when asked whether he would welcome a third film (the possibility of which seems to be slipping away, given the lukewarm critical reception and modest box office returns), Duchovny enthused that he - and his fake beard - would be signed up in a flash, but that he would like to see see a return to the world of aliens, adding that "I think we would go back to that kind of mythology and get to the heart of what Mulder is looking for."
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