“I auditioned for all three parts on Full House. At first, they had me for, I think, the dad. And then they had me for the Stamos character. And then they had me for the other guy. I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to get one of these, and it’s going to change my life.’”
None of the roles panned out for Duchovny. He was still pretty fresh in Hollywood when he auditioned.
“I had plenty of those pilots that I went up for when I was first out in L.A. and I thought each one was going to be the break. I just needed to be able to pay my rent too. That was an important thing ’cause I just wanted a job.”
He also realized that the style of acting needed in a sitcom wasn’t necessarily what he was looking for at the time.
“I was really bad at that kind of stuff. I did not know how to do that sitcom stuff. I don’t know what they were thinking, that they thought I was going to exist in that world. I mean, I guess I could have learned, but I wasn’t ready, I wasn’t ready for that kind of, energetic performance that they need.”
– Actor David Duchovny to The Hollywood Reporter.
Imagine Mulder as Uncle Jessie! Or as DJ Tanner! What could have been in an alternate Full House-verse…
Guuuuurl… DJ was the daughter.
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