The awkward moment you missed between Sam Armytage and David Duchovny
Sunrise host Samantha Armytage has been left in an embarrassing situation after offending X-Files star David Duchovny with a question about his longevity.
The actor was a guest on the breakfast show yesterday morning, when Armytage asked “how much longer” he’d be able to do the show for.
The popular sci-fi drama, starring Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, first aired from 1993-2002, before making a comeback in 2016.
Replying to Armytage’s question, the actor simply stared at her and said: “I don’t know.”
“So you’d just keep going?” she pressed.
“You say that like it’s a bad thing — ‘You just keep going?’” Duchovny mimicked back.
Armytage was left awkwardly trying to explain herself, insisting, “No, I don’t mean it like it’s ... No, I think it’s great!” before adding: “No, but 25 years ...”
Duchovny cut her off, telling her: “You’re making it worse and worse. ‘Twenty-five years’ — when are you going to stop?”
“But how long do you want to do it for?” Armytage continued.
“I don’t know, if I can find a challenge in it, and people want to watch it ... I can’t sit here and answer that right now.”
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The interview didn’t get any better when Duchovny also refused to say whether he believed in aliens — as per the theme of X-Files..
“I’m not going to answer that right now,” he said, telling the hosts he’d answered spoken about this too many times over the years.
“I’ve probably answered that a million times so — and I’ve given 500,000 yes’s and 500,000 no’s.”