There’s not a lot to tell about this. It’s Mulder’s bedroom obviously, says Spotnitz as a blonde woman attends to a pile of deco lying on a bed. Blue walls. Twigs and branches everywhere. Vases. Candles. Floral patterns. Hold up. Something’s familiar about this place. Good God man, we’re in my mother’s bedroom. Too much elegance in here for a man. There’s definitely a lady’s touch to this. So I’m like, looks like there’s a lady’s touch in here. Is Mulder in a relationship?
And Spotnitz goes, I wish I could answer that.
The lady’s touch is me, says the middle-aged woman in a thick Canadian accent. And everybody laughs it up.
Shirley Inget, our set decorator, says Spotnitz. She did the set decoration for The X-Files in Vancouver.
Then Spotnitz points to the side of the room and is like, bathroom’s back there. Nothing remarkable about it except there’s a scene that plays in there.
Well, that’s remarkable enough for me and it’s a logical place for the girlie mags too. Right on the toilet — if indeed Mulder still subscribes to true bachelorhood. So I mosey over to the commode. It’s a true horror flick crapper. Very clean. No porn. It’s all bright white with hexagon floor tiles and one of those real big clawtubs that horror flicks love to fill full of the red stuff. Only thing missing is the smell of bleach.
So I’m beginning to think they didn’t leave Mulder’s smut out for us reporters to see. You know, maybe the man has moved on to the Internet like the rest of the world — despite his house having nothing to do with the modern world.
We’re shuffling off the set and past a kitchen full of old-style appliances — a kitchen only slightly newer than the one Jackie Gleeson would threaten a beat down for Audrey Meadows in — when a reporter says, it looks like such a period house. 1920s or something. Sort of gives The X-Files a retro feel.
And Spotnitz goes, yeah it’s meant to be sort of timeless —
We don’t want anything to feel fashionable or of the moment.
We always intended for the series to wear well.
We gather at the bottom of the porch near some evergreens and encircle Spotnitz and toss more questions his way. This and that. This and that. No specific answers or anything. Can you say what familiar faces might be returning other than Mulder and Scully? Mitch Pileggi? And Spotnitz is like, I can’t say.
Spotnitz keeps talking. The fog is thickening. And hammers strike and echo from some hidden place in the building. Shadows coil and shunt off the hedges of fog like twisted steel sculptures and something’s burning around here. I smell it. Maybe nothing. But are the smoke machines still running properly? No one can say.
Our X-Files 2 coverage doesn’t end here. Be sure to read our interviews as well at the following links:
- David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
- Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
- Chris Carter (“The X-Files” series creator, executive producer and X-Files 2 producer, co-writer, and director)
- Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files” series executive producer and X-Files 2 producer and co-writer)
- X-Files 2 Info Page
