From SciFi.com this morning:


X-Files Stars Got Frozen

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, who reprise their most famous roles in the upcoming sequel film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, told reporters that they find it hard to complain about shooting the movie in the cold and snow of Vancouver, Canada, last year, but that it presented a challenge nonetheless.

"Let me try to say this in a way that, just in quotation marks, is going to get me in trouble," Duchovny said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., over the weekend. "I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world, for almost three weeks. Pity me."

But, Duchovny added, "It's hard. The logistics of it is, if you're out in the middle of nowhere, and you're running around in the freezing rain and the snow, you don't get a chance to go off and warm up in your trailer, because you're seeing so much [of the scenery in the frame], your trailer is on the other side of town. So you are stuck in clothes that are not fitting for the environment for a long time. So, yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but you just suck it up, and it's not going to be that long. Your feet are cold, ... and your ass is cold, and your hands are cold and your muscles are cold. But you suck it up."

Duchovny reprises the role of Fox Mulder, and Anderson again plays Dana Scully, in the sequel, based on their long-running TV series, in which the two former FBI agents find themselves caught up in a mystery involving the disappearance of another agent. The film takes place during the winter, and the production shot in and around Vancouver--the TV series' old stomping grounds--in the winter of 2007-'08.

"I was up there in Whistler [a ski resort outside Vancouver], and when I arrived it was about 18 below," Anderson said. "Fortunately, it didn't stay there for too long, but ... it's beautiful, but it's also ... exhausting."

Anderson added: "I think one of the physically more challenging aspects for me at the time were that there were a couple of scenes where we had a lot of dialogue, and when you're in that kind of weather, and the wind is slightly blowing and the snow is coming down and your lips, ... actually, ... they do freeze. And there were a couple of scenes that were reminiscent of the pilot. There was a scene in the pilot where we were in this pouring forest rain that's freezing, and I'm screeching at him about something or another, and it felt kind of like that. ... It felt very much like that. ... What was reminiscent of that was the fact that my mouth wouldn't work."

For all the discomfort, though, Duchovny said it was worth it. "When you see it on film, though, it's just gorgeous," he said. "You look at those big snow flakes coming down in the movie, it's just, ... it's worth it, you know? You have to know that when you're putting up with it that, if you're experiencing discomfort, then it's probably going to look pretty good on screen." The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens July 25. --Patrick Lee, News Editor