‘The X-Files’ stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reunite

Believe it: The X-Files alums David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reunited Sunday at the 2025 SAG Awards in L.A., where they presented the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series together.

“It’s great to see you, Gillian,” Duchovny told his former costars. “You look, uh —”

She suggested that he meant she looked younger than she looked when they filmed the series.

Duchovny asked that, since they’d had some time to think about it, what did she think makes great drama. While both agreed that it was one special thing that you couldn’t buy, they disagreed on what that thing was, in a cute bit. For him, it was timing, and she said it was chemistry.

“We still got it,” she quipped, before telling the audience that the moment was “hilarious.”

“Hilarious,” she said sarcastically. “He’s so good. We did that so well.”

They struggled with the actual opening of the envelope, but their banter was easy.

Duchovny and Anderson starred in the Fox series from 1993 to 2002, as well as in two films, playing FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The two reprised their roles in revivals of the series years later, including a tenth season in 2016 and an 11th in 2018.

Over the run of the sci-fi drama, both cast and crew picked up accolades, including Duchovny and Anderson at the SAG Awards, where Anderson took home two of those heavy trophies and both raked in several nominations. She was up for the award five more times, while Duchovny was nominated a total of five times. As a cast — with William B. Davis, Chris Owens, James Pickens Jr., Mitch Pileggi, and Steven Williams — they were themselves nominated three times for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Anderson said earlier this year that it took her a while to understand what the big deal was about the series.

“Because when you’re doing something like that, all anybody says is, ‘Oh my god. The show. Oh my god. It’s the most amazing [thing]!'” she told fellow actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes on their Smartless podcast in 2024. “And you don’t wanna hear that anymore. You don’t.”

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It hit her much later.

“I suddenly got what they were talking about, like, five years after the show ended,” Anderson said. “I was kinda like, ‘Yeah. That was kinda cool. I was on this really cool show.'”

The two have reunited before, including in an April 2021 photo on social media, when Anderson teased that Duchovny met her dog.