David Duchovny keen to reprise roles in Twin Peaks, The X Files

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David Duchovny keen to reprise roles in Twin Peaks, The X Files

By Michael Idato

With plans under way to revive both the iconic David Lynch drama Twin Peaks and 1990s Fox hit The X Files, US actor David Duchovny is living proof of the saying "it never rains but it pours".

The 54-year-old appeared in both and while he has not yet formally signed up for Twin Peaks, if they called ...

Return ... David Duchovny would relish the chance to star in the planned new series of <i>Twin Peaks</i>.

Return ... David Duchovny would relish the chance to star in the planned new series of Twin Peaks.

"I'd love to," he declares to Fairfax Media.

Duchovny's role in Twin Peaks was one of his first as an actor. He played cross-dressing FBI Agent Denise (nee Dennis) Bryson.

Although it was brief it is both memorable for fans who loved the character, and clearly very special to Duchovny himself.

"I only did three episodes and I remember when the show got cancelled that year ... it only ran two years; I don't even know if it ran a full two years," he says.

It didn't - technically. Twin Peaks' first season was just eight episodes, back in 1990.

And though its second was 22 episodes, it was cancelled due to falling ratings, leaving some of its story threads unresolved, and others resolved unsatisfactorily for fans.

The show's creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, are planning a return to the world of Twin Peaks two and a half decades later, fulfilling a promise made in the final episode by its fallen heroine Laura Palmer that she would return "in 25 years".

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"It got canceled right then and at that time I was thinking wow, this is a really cool character; this is fun," he says.

"If they would have me, if there was any way for me to come back for an episode or two I would jump at that.

"I'd put on the stockings again and shave my legs in a second."

In October, CBS Studios confirmed Twin Peaks would return as a nine-episode limited series to air in 2016 on the cable channel Showtime.

So far, only Kyle MacLachlan (Special Agent Dale Cooper), Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer), Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Briggs) and Catherine E. Coulson (The Log Lady) are confirmed as returning.

Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox is also planning to revive one of Duchovny's most successful series: The X Files.

The studio confirmed at a programming showcase in January that it was hoping to dust off the series, about a pair of investigators working in a department of the FBI that specialised in unexplained, cold or supernatural cases.

The series, which also starred Gillian Anderson, ran for 202 episodes between 1993 and 2002.

Duchovny is presently starring in a new drama, Aquarius, which is set in Los Angeles in the 1960s and interwoven with the events of the Charles Manson murders.

In Australia, Aquarius will air on the Seven Network and the streaming service Presto.

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