#post xf2

Will you ever go back to The X-Files?

DD: It's ready-made nostalgia. It depends on whether Chris Carter wants to do it again. He certainly doesn't have to. We always talk about it amongst ourselves. We talk a lot. Or I'll text him and say "Do you have an idea?" Or I'll say, "I have an idea for a show. I wish I had that one eight years ago. This would have been a good episode." But generally I'll be on an elevator with someone and the elevator will bump and they'll say, "There's an X-file." And I'll say, "Actually that's not an X-file. That's not a great story. The elevator just bumped."

"For the first five years of the series we were up filming in Vancouver and I was hardly ever in LA. I didn't really know anyone. The first year, I married a Canadian and had a child. If things had happened differently I might have gone to the fashionable parties in LA, might have ended up with a different life.

"But I didn't, I ended up with a responsible life very quickly, and my only priority when I wasn't working was to make time to be with my child. I got hugely controlling and hugely anal. All my spare time was spent either exercising, painting our house, or being with my child."

Was the time she spent with her child relaxing? "No, it was pretty intense. Whenever we were together my brain was going at a thousand miles an hour in other directions. It trained me to be vigilant with my down time. I still have a hard time with it... Everyone in my life...." She trails off. "It's a joke. I have to work hard to be relaxed."