#defining it

[laularlau8]

That word always perplexes me, because Gillian and I never worked on our chemistry. We don’t come in, in the morning, and go, “How’s the chemistry? I really need some coffee with my chemistry this morning.” It’s really a mutual respect and enjoyment of acting with one another.

David Duchovny, Deadline Interview June 2016

[laularlau8]

And there’s such a lovely, supportive, really genuinely caring feeling ……. From a bird’s eye view now it looks quite sweet. I was moved by it. We’ve always had an element of that. That was there, I think from the very beginning.

Gillian Anderson on how she saw her and Duchovny’s relationship whilst watching old X-Files Bloopers recently - Daily Telegraph Interview Feb 2016

[the-lookbook]

gabe: another element of your thing:

gabe: perfectly anachronistic expressions

gabe: which is related to perfectly bland slang

[the-lookbook]

gabe on my aesthetic:

“bigness and unrealness without coldness”

“whimsy that isn’t lame”

my response:

“the thing is that there is an important element of realness

like i don't like wes anderson or del toro

well i like del toro better

and i don't know that i would call them cold, exactly

without quaintness or cuteness or broadness either, maybe”

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

"We see each other every couple of years," he says. "We'll always be close because we spent so much time together. We went through something life-changing. She's part of my history, part of my life, and always will be. So there's a profound attachment."

NME Magazine, January 2016

[foreheadfucking]

Naming...It

I feel the need to give some kind of name to David and Gillian's relationship...largely because it takes so long to type "David and Gillian's relationship" and I am a lazy fart. I also feel the need to separately name their chemistry. Is there already some kind of established term? Does anyone use the term DGR? Does that term imply "romance" rather than "relationship"? In the past I have been partial to calling their relationship "the Thing" and their chemistry "It"...because "it showed up when we showed up." Mayhaps fuckyeahdavidgillian has some insight on this matter?

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

IGillian's 'defining it', so well worded. Cant get past the 'intimacy that only exists there' 'in that particular way'. Intimacy is such an intimate word! And can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that she said they have a connection that isn't just specific to the show/acting but just them as Human Beings (compared to DDs 08 "acting chemistry" shpeel). It's a nice change of pace. Ever evolving, these two! I'm sure David agrees. They speak for each other at this point now, right?

"Intimacy" is indeed an intimate word, though, paying heed to good exegetical methodology, I should point out that Gillian uses it often, both in strictly Davidic contexts and otherwise.

I keep coming back to the novelty of this idea that they have something in their relationship that does not solely have its origin in their unwillingly shared trauma that was the show; I was under the impression that the formula we were working with was "soulmates without an interest in each other as people," not "two human beings with a connection" -- frankly, it's not something I was prepared to hear articulated by either subject in such a solemn way, and has opened up room for considerable revision to the received view.