David & Danny Duchovny: "Fame in the Family"

Unter dem Namen "Fame in the Family" wurde im UK ein Programm gestartet, bei dem Geschwister, von denen ein Part berühmt ist, gemeinsam interviewt wurden. Hier schon mal das original Transkript, die zugehörigen Videos findet ihr hier. The segment on Danny & David opens with David setting up a game of pool, which he and Danny then play. Apart from the parts recorded over the pool game, Danny and David are not together when they are being interviewed, even though they are reacting to each other's comments. (It was a really nice interview, with the affection between the two of them really evident in their smiles and laughs as they spoke and particularly when they were together.) David: I intend to strike a blow for younger brothers everywhere. Danny: You want a beer Dave? David: No thanks. Away from the pool game. Danny: Acting in America is like royalty y' know. We don't have a queen and a king so we've got, y'know, Andy Garcia and David Duchovny and Bruce Willis and these are the people who we bow down to, so y'know, it's hard to...there's no perspective. Y'know, you could be the greatest director in the...you could be a Nobel Peace Prize winner and still if you walk by they'd go, 'Is that David Duchovny? Oh, excuse me, excuse me.' So y'know, there's no winning so why fight? Narrator: Danny is four years older than his actor brother David and is a successful commercials director. Danny: You know, growing up, my brother being the second child he...he didn't really know what he wanted to do until his mid twenties. He was a really good student. He went to Princeton and Yale and it seemed like he was going to be a teacher, professor, you know. And it ended up that he was dating a model and their agent asked him to take some pictures and off he went. Back to the two of them playing pool. Danny: I don't remember torturing you. I thought I was being nice. David: (talking in regard to his shot, which he missed...) Oh come on. That was nice...almost. I'm being robbed. (Then to Danny) You remember being nice? Danny: Yeah. David: Then you didn't torture me? Narrator. As children their relationship was a textbook example of the supremacy of the first born child. David. Yes you did. Away from the pool game. Danny: Like my dad likes to tell the story where I asked my dad when my brother was two, how much it would cost to give him back. Back to pool game. David (to narrator) How did he torture me? Danny: What would I do? Er...some wedgies now and again. A little spit torture was a good one I thought. I don't think we ever close handed each other or anything. It was more like wrestling and holding him down, lock him in the closet. David: We fought until Dave was no longer a lot littler than him. Danny: (chuckling) That's true. David: That's when we stopped fighting. Danny: And we're living in fear of David's revenge. (David laughs) It wasn't until he started taking his boxing last year that I started to get worried that revenge was in the air. Fortunately it hasn't occurred yet. David: (Much grinning). It's coming. See how he doesn't think it's coming now, but it is. Walking outside onto a veranda overlooking the beach. Danny: How'd you get locked out old man? (to a dog). David: Look at these waves. Danny: You want to go swimming? Narrator: For David's family, his sudden career move from academic to actor came out of the blue. Away from the two of them together. David: I don't think he was encouraging or discouraging. Y'know I think he was surprised like most of my family cos it wasn't something that I'd ever expressed an interest in doing. Away from the pool again. Danny: At first he came to me for advice, he goes y'know, 'I've got an offer for this television show in Canada,' he says. 'It's called The X Files.' I'm like...oh? He says 'I've got to sign on for five years,' I go - don't do it. Fortunately, he didn't listen to me. He got the X-Files, he moved to Canada and I wouldn't see him a lot so I'd go to visit him and there he was, and he was like the big actor and everything, and it all seemed so unreal, then he got really famous and you couldn't walk about in the street with him being your brother; you'd get mobbed, y'know that kind of would bug me. (Shot of David in front of huge crowd of screaming fans) I've seen them swoon, I've seen them grab, I've seen them expose (Laughs). I've seen them want to touch him. They've said some dirty things and stuff. David: It's not like Beatlemania. Danny: Like teenage girls literally turning red and fainting in the background. David: That's for Danny. The women are fainting for Danny. Danny: Because they think that somehow because they're famous they came from somewhere else, like they weren't born like us, they don't put their pants on like us, they don't cry, they don't laugh, they don't eat, they're just...they come out of the box perfect, y'know, so you deal with odd impressions from other people. At home it's the same, but out in public it's odd because people are swarming all of the time. (Little snippet of Danny directing) Danny: His fame was tough to swallow at first. Y'know, God has a really good sense of humour right? So here's Danny Duchovny, y'know he's been the big shot his whole life, and he's got quite the ego, y'know he's the big director and all, and he's going along and then all of a sudden his little brother goes flying by of him and becomes this famous person. Y'know after a while I just looked and I go, y'know, no offence to a toll booth operator or a bus driver...y'know, not that they're not good people too, but I look in the mirror and go, well you're not a bus driver, you're not an out of work person. You have a great career on your own and in your own world you're y'know, a top man. David: Fame or you know, that people know who you are, that was not part of my ambition. Danny: It definitely stopped me in my tracks for a second. I think it gave me a little humility that I needed. David: He took it personally, so I mean if there was anybody for me to go to about that it wouldn't have been him, cos he would have told me how hard it was for him. Danny: And it gave me a little bit of jealousy and envy that I needed and also a little perspective about myself and where I was in the world. David: You know, when I thought that I might have actually done something wrong I thought Oh God, I'm sorry, but then I thought no, I haven't dome anything wrong. Danny: I found myself early on making sure to let you know that he was my brother almost in a way where it became obvious to people that I was having a little problem with it. Now I don't really mention it as much; not that I'm angry about it or anything it's just that I've made peace with it. David: You know, I always say to him, y'know it's such crap, the whole idea of fame and the whole...the fantasy that it actually solves anything or gives you anything. Danny: He's sort of become like the family centre and I'm just Uncle Danny, and there's very little pressure y'know. It's really nice, I just come by and eat and hang out and it's gotten pretty warm y'know and it's no longer really competitive. We're more like friends now. David: If he wants to treat our house like a family centre he should stay longer and change some diapers and really get the feeling of what it's like to be a family. Back to pool game. Danny: I like to think I was a loving brother. David : That's my ball. Away from pool. David: He still acts like my older brother. He's just himself: he's Danny. He's always going to be Danny. Back to pool and ends... David: I won that game. Both of them really laughing. Quelle: haven