mean friendly to each other yeah
friendly to very friendly to each other
like well you made us like have sex if
you're a fan of the x-files you know
this when agents scully and mulder talk
sparks fly and when the actors reunited
earlier this year fans lost their minds
the relationship between jillian
anderson and david duchovny turns out to
be the biggest conspiracy of all time
and that's saying something considering
the whole tv show revolved around
conspiracy theories and everything
mystery related the show's fans are so
intense they even coined a trendy term
we're actively using these days yes you
too no backing off did their feelings
ever reach the off-screen world and why
are so many people convinced they've
been in love this whole time recently
jillian anderson and david decompany
reunited for a lunch date and
immediately fans swarmed the comments
section under the pic jillian shared on
instagram
i've just died a thousand deaths from
one photo gushed one while another wrote
hell yeah king and queen are back
fans immediately wanted to know if the
post meant a possible return of the hit
sci-fi crime series however it appeared
that jillian was just introducing her
former on-screen partner and lover to
her dog stella ah sweet the x-files was
one of the most popular series in the
90s running for nine seasons having two
movies and reviving for two seasons a
couple of years back and it turned david
and jillian into one of the most popular
tv couples of all time
the show is filled with conspiracy
theories but there's this one mystery
that fascinates frustrates and thrills
some fans like nothing else the
real-life relationship of david duchovny
and jillian anderson i think it's
remotely plausible that someone might
think you're hot
it's not your typical situation where
people casually wonder if two leads are
secretly in love even as the pair
actively denies as they have that
there's a romance for a huge portion of
the fandom this question is a true
mystery that has bubbled up over the
years and now become a complete frenzy
when we got to the revival a couple of
years back as much as jillian and david
appeared to despise constant questions
about whether they are in love they
stoke the flames with pictures like
these
so how did duchovny and anderson become
scrutinized to the point where we have
entire tumblr and pinterest boards
devoted to their every interaction
some fans would even analyze types of
body language between the two leads when
the show originally aired people felt so
strongly that fox mulder and dana scully
should date that it is believed to have
coined the popular internet phrase
the first ship
that became widely popular and accepted
was kirk and spock from star trek but
the actual usage of the term saw its
origin around 1995
by fans of the x-files at first they
called themselves relationshipers then
our shipper and finally just shipper
on the one hand this phenomenon exists
because loyal fans have a personal
investment in the characters
wanting them to be a real life couple or
at least friends not only did they fail
to find romance together but they also
struggle to be friendly towards each
other through most of the series is run
after incredibly long days of filming
they wanted nothing to do with each
other did david and i hate each other at
times yes like any brother and sister
husband and wife co-worker and co-worker
forced to spend that much time together
under such strenuous circumstances
anderson once wrote she referred to her
working relationship with duchovny as a
forced marriage anderson and her first
husband subsequently divorced but her
professional partnership with david
duchovny lasted for close to a decade it
has frequently been rumored that the two
actors couldn't stand one another
sometimes she wouldn't even answer the
question about what she thought of her
co-star saying um let's go on to another
question duchovny indicated he felt the
same way they didn't have a relationship
offset at all we don't run from trailer
to trailer to exchange the news of the
day we have a successful working
relationship and that's the best way to
go about this job
the internet is filled with similar
quotes that have been dissected over
time including the video of the time
when the crown actor didn't thank
decompany in her 1997 emmy speech when
she won the best actress in a drama
rather than deter shippers this sort of
tension just fueled their desire even
more and it shows that each one has
intense feelings about the other
i think he was he he was hitting on
every girl in the hallway and
and he happened on me and i happened to
be cast
but we didn't end up untrue okay
these fans also didn't mind that
anderson was married to her first
husband until 1997 the same year that
decompany tied the knot with tia leone
mulder and skully's situation was murky
on the show as well they had a baby
together towards the end of the series
yet the writers never delved too much
into their love life anderson later said
she enjoyed the slow burn between the
eventual couple
i personally enjoy that the writers were
clever enough to drag it out so that
even the touch of a hand or a hug was
meaningful
duchovny is also a fan of the romantic
mulder scully mashups set to song it's
really kind of cool and i get it now ah
we couldn't agree more can it be similar
to their off-screen relationship though
the theories about the californication
alum and the fall stars relationship
gained steam over the years as segments
of the x-files fandom scoured for clues
for instance while anderson didn't think
duchovny at the 1997 emmys before she
walked up on stage she kissed him before
she kissed her boyfriend and they took
part in some steamy magazine photos like
the rolling stones series of them in bed
or an us weekly cover where jillian
licked david's face
later blooper reels from the 1998
x-files movie showed them turning skully
and mulder's almost kiss into an
unscripted make-out session although
those cuts didn't make the film
a few years later the conspiracy got a
second win when it was revealed that the
leads were suddenly friends it turns out
having a break from filming made the
heart grow fonder in an exhaustive
timeline a tumblr user carefully
documented many instances of the two
interacting after the show ended for
example in 2007 jillian said she had a
delightful lunch with david and tried to
describe their rocky dynamic we were
essentially married we saw each other
more than either of us saw our partners
and it was like any relationship it had
its ups and downs
at that point the pair got along well
enough to film a second x-files movie in
2008. things got steamy in 2013 when the
two acted very flirty at the events
promoting the show's 20th
anniversary right yeah we do have
chemistry
at this point duchovny has split from
leone and anderson was broken up with
her long-term boyfriend at comic-con she
even said that the two of them had
filmed a sex scene on x-files that never
made it to the air though eventually
jillian claimed she was making it up
immediately rumors began that they were
finally together or was it just to get
publicity
another intensive tumbler timeline
detailed all of the instances of the two
saying complementary things to each
other then the two started posing for
reddit ama proof photos together in bed
and frequently flirting on twitter
soon anderson sat for an infamous
huffington post interview in march 2014
while promoting her nbc show crisis
jillian denied she and david were dating
though not very convincingly and set the
internet ablaze when she admitted there
couldn't be any attraction there because
of that it's just it's not that there
might not be attraction there's a friend
that you know there is an attraction
there's an attraction friend attraction
you know maybe there might even be more
than an attraction but it's not going to
happen a month later she and duchovny
bantered on twitter again
though he went on the tonight show with
jimmy fallon to reiterate it was just a
joke and essentially people should relax
and that's not it word about decompany's
divorce from leone leaked out on august
9 2014
anderson's birthday to make things even
more suspicious anderson had announced
her split with her boyfriend two years
prior on duchovny's birthday
how is that possible as you can imagine
this has only continued since news of
the x-files reboot surfaced and the two
went on a very friendly loving publicity
tour as usual they've dispelled rumors
that they're involved still they kissed
on stage at a concert back in 2015 and
appeared in a jimmy kimmel live skit
where they pretend to have sex on a desk
they also sat for an interview where
they giggled rubbed arms and jillian
laughed so hard when kimmel asked about
their previous feud
this type of behavior has fans wondering
about them more than ever and they're
frequently asked about their
relationship yet david continues to be
shocked and somewhat frustrated to get
the question saying jilly and i are not
lovers or boyfriend and girlfriend there
seems to be a certain kind of twitter
contingent that wants us to be together
it's odd to me because i've never had
the fantasy of wanting two people
together that aren't or are back in 2016
anderson even had to ask is that going
to be the headline of this interview
when a reporter dared to ask whether the
two have a romantic relationship
obviously yes it became the headline
anderson's reaction is precious
primarily when the two of them only
fueled the rumors whenever they appeared
despite all the controversies and rumors
about their relationship the pair has
always been supportive of each other
so when anderson revealed that she was
offered less than he was to do the new
series david did everything he could to
right that wrong hollywood payment is
not fair and it doesn't always parcel on
gender lines or race lines or anything
like that
as evidence their actual relationship
has been a significant part of the
show's story for more than two decades
surely they recognized it was excellent
publicity for the show so not only do
gillian and david appear to enjoy that
they have become a big conspiracy in the
end they perpetuate it more than anyone
what do you think of this couple of
couldn't stand each other turned good
friends were you ever invested in them
becoming more than friends drop your
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