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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

David Duchovny

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Multi-Hyphenate David Duchovny joins Andy Richter to talk about academia, writing his book Truly Like Lightning, growing up in New York, and more.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Andy Richter here with another episode of the three questions. And I've got

0:17.7

David Ducavani on today. The multi-multitalited. It's embarrassing how many things you do.

0:24.8

It's embarrassing to me. Is it? Is it? I mean, because you do music, you do poetry, you write novels,

0:35.3

and then you act in things too, which is like, once you do acting, why do you do all that work?

0:41.2

You found you found a kush gig, you know? Well, that's absolutely right. Yeah, you know, acting is

0:48.4

it's nice to have your words written for you, but as you know, well, those are long days on set

0:56.1

that you start to feel like existential dread of, you know, what the hell am I doing? Yeah.

1:02.1

You know, waiting around trying to get these few lives right all day. So there's something about

1:08.2

writing novels or making music that's a little, I have a little more agency, I guess. Yeah, yeah,

1:14.1

that's what I was going to ask if it's a control thing because well people, you know, controls like

1:18.7

a negative word to people. Well, but it's, I mean, not to me. I mean, you know, I agency, it's just,

1:25.4

you're, it's a semantic game then because it is control. Like that's, I mean, we all want to,

1:30.8

I don't know, we're all like scared animals, you know, in this big, crazy world, and we want to

1:37.2

be able to feel like we've got some handle on it. So yeah, I mean, I understand. And especially

1:42.1

on movies on TV shows, you know, they are inherently necessarily collaborative, but that can also leave

1:51.8

you feeling like, you know, a ship's crew member on the deck heading to a horizon and you don't

2:00.2

know what the fuck's going on. You're lucky if you're on the deck. Yeah. Yeah.

2:04.6

Well, yeah, I think, you know, what do you think about it? Your performance, well, you have the

2:12.4

lines written mostly and, you know, somebody's going to light you, somebody's going to shoot you,

2:19.1

somebody's going to cut you. So there's all these factors that go into your core,

2:24.8

unquote, performance as an actor that that are really not in your control at all. Yeah, yeah.

2:30.4

So yeah. And yeah, and it's also, I'm always amazed to it like how really, you know, like,

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