David Duchovny and Tea Leoni call it quits
October 16, 2008 by Wendy Boswell
One of the longest married couples in Hollywood (which honestly isn’t saying much) is splitting up. Tea Leoni and David Duchovny have actually been separated for quite a while, but apparently his visit to sex rehab was pretty much the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.
Tea is in a new movie called - of all things - “Manure”, and talks about in the newest issue of More. Here’s an excerpt:
About her upcoming flick, Manure: “I’m basically made to look like Tippi Hedren. Hitchcock blonde is what we’re going for. The entire movie is brown. Everything. The sets, the props, the wardrobe, the cars. And I’m the only thing in cream. It’s funny, it’s a very simple thread but at the same time it’s all about our relationship to shit. Our own, others’, selling it, making it, smelling it, being offended by it, reveling in it, getting hit with it when it hits the fan. But at the same time, we have this incredible cast with Billy Bob Thornton, who is maybe my new favorite person in the world.”
About being thrilled not to be cast as “the chick of the flick”: “That’s where your skirts are up to here and you’re blissfully 20 years younger than your co-star – and that would be his bliss and not necessarily my own. It simply becomes a different movie if you’re 10 years older.”
About paparazzi events: “The red carpet makes me feel like a bullshit artist. I don’t hang with anybody who stalks press.”
About why she thinks older actresses are more interesting: “It’s not just that a 28-year-old doesn’t have a lot of experience. It’s that I don’t worry about a 28-year-old, certainly not one who looks like most of the young leading ladies.”
About how women in Hollywood are like boxers: “It can be a very fast and furious and a short career.”
About aging gracefully: “My mom bites life in the ass. Aging gracefully to me isn’t about accepting it or doing only a bit of Botox. I think it’s a spark – a way of being.”
November 2008 Issue of More Magazine
Photography by Matthew Rolston