'I find that funny': Actor David Duchovny purposely wrote a nude scene for himself because he's 63 years old



Actor and writer David Duchovny purposely included a nude scene for himself in a movie because he thought it would be funny to show off his aged body.

Duchovny wrote and directed "Reverse the Curse," a film about an ailing Boston Red Sox fan whose medical condition seemingly gets worse every time the baseball team loses. The film is based on the Curse of the Bambino, which refers to the 86-year championship drought for the Red Sox after they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

The 63-year-old actor said that since aging is a process that everyone goes through, he felt it was necessary to show an aging nude body both to show the inevitability of life and because he thought it would be funny to show himself naked.

'I just think it's embarrassing to be naked in front of a lot of people.'

"You can turn it into humor. You can look at horrific things with a sense of humor, and the humor comes from the fact that it's going to happen to all of us," the New York native said. "It's not like some people age and some people don't, some people die and some people don't."

In the movie, Duchovny and actor Logan Marshall-Green are changing in the men's locker room. Per Variety, Duchovny's character asks his son, "Are you uptight [being] naked in front of your father?"

The camera then shows what is described as Duchovny's bare bottom half before he hugs his son.

"If I've got one of my main characters — me — showing his his naked body to his son and saying, 'It looks like a dead sparrow where my c*** should be,' I find that funny," Duchovny told Salon. "I think we can laugh at that and then hug it out. And he comments on his son's penis in a way that's funny. I'm laughing and I'm also moved in a way."

Interestingly, Duchovny actually expressed opposite feelings about appearing nude on screen in his late 40s.

"I just think it's embarrassing to be naked in front of a lot of people," he said in 2008. "I guess I'm a bit prudish in a way. I wish I wasn't — I wish I could let my freak flag fly a little more."

At the time, Duchovny was doing a press junket for "Californication," which ran from 2007 to 2014. While promoting the show, he said sex scenes in the series weren't to turn the audience on but to portray sex as "the ridiculous human behavior that it is."

"For me, theoretically, sex is ridiculous because you're driven to do it. Once a human being is out of control, it becomes funny. To me that's the essence of comedy — it's when you're driven to do something that you don't necessarily want to do."

The veteran actor has been using the mantra of trying to "fail better" since starting a podcast of the same name, saying he has been "stumbling blindly in the dark" in attempting to make good songs, be a singer, and more.

"It's all failure to me, because I'm just never going to be that good. You know, I'm never going to be a great player, because I started too late. I'm never going to be a great singer, because I just don't have the natural gift. But I'm still in there. And I'm trying to do something."

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'I must have really f***ed this up': Ben Stiller says 'Zoolander 2' failure made him question if he still knows what's funny

'I must have really f***ed this up': Ben Stiller says 'Zoolander 2' failure made him question if he still knows what's funny



Ben Stiller revealed that the release of "Zoolander 2" didn't sit well with him and made him wonder if his perspective on comedy was still relevant.

Stiller, who has produced amazing comedies like "Dodgeball" and "Tropic Thunder," followed up his 2001 hit "Zoolander" with a sequel in 2016.

The original had seen over a decade of memes and quotes that kept certain themes of the movie alive, making Stiller expect that fans were clamoring for the second film.

"I thought everybody wanted this," Stiller said. "And then it's like, 'Wow, I must have really f***ed this up.' Everybody didn't go to it. And it's gotten these horrible reviews."

With a reported budget of $50 million against making just $29 million domestically (Variety), Stiller appeared to believe that reigniting the old flame was a good move. The film's original stars all returned, including Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell. It also included Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Mila Jovovich, Penelope Cruz, and Stiller's father, iconic actor Jerry Stiller.

Stiller revealed how big a toll the failure took on his psyche during an interview with actor David Duchovny on the "Fail Better" podcast.

"It really freaked me out because I was like, 'I didn't know [it] was that bad?'" Stiller continued. "What scared me the most on that one was I'm losing what I think what's funny, the questioning yourself. ... On 'Zoolander 2,' it was definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long time."

Stiller recalled that the movie's poor performance affected him so much that it actually stopped him from making films and led to developing more series.

"The wonderful thing that came out of that for me was just having space where, if that had been a hit, and they said 'Make Zoolander 3 right now,' or offered some other movie, I would have just probably jumped in and done that," he added. "But I had this space to kind of sit with myself and have to deal with it and other projects that I had been working on — not comedies, some of them — I have the time to actually just work on and develop."

This stopped the 58-year-old from jumping into a series of other comedy movies that he may have regretted.

"Even if somebody said, 'Well, why don't you go do another comedy or do this?' I probably could have figured out something to do. But I just didn't want to," he explained.

Duchovny, now 63, asked, "Why didn't you want to? Was it anger?"

"It was just hurt," Stiller answered. "Finding yourself in terms of what creatively you want to be and do, I always loved directing. I always loved making movies. I always, in my mind, loved the idea of just directing movies since I was a kid, and not necessarily comedies. And so, over the course of like the next like nine or 10 months, I was able to develop these limited series."

"Sequels are hard because really what audiences want is to feel what the first movie made them feel, but again. That wonder, that newness, that love at first sight. And they're not always going to get that from a sequel — sometimes they're going to get that from just some other film that you make," producer Cody Clarke told Blaze News.

"To me, 'Tropic Thunder' is more of a 'sequel' to 'Zoolander' than 'Zoolander 2' is, because what I loved about 'Zoolander' is that it was this whole other world, completely out of left field, that was so committed to and so uniquely funny. And 'Tropic Thunder' does that in spades, and 'Zoolander 2' doesn't do that at all," he added.

Stiller has either produced or help produce five series since 2020, including "La Flamme," "Severance," "Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra," "In the Dark," and "High Desert."

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