David Duchovny auditioned for all three male lead roles on Full House and was satisfied it was going to vary his life.

Could you think about David Duchovny as Danny Tanner, Joey Gladstone, or Jesse Katsopolis on Full House? Well, it might have occurred, because the actor just lately revealed on his Fail Better podcast that he auditioned for every a kind of roles.

Duchovny clearly didn’t get the elements, however on the time, he was sure it was going to occur. “I auditioned for all three parts on Full House,” Duchovny stated. “At first, they had me for, I think, the dad. And then they had me for the Stamos character. And then they had me for the other guy. I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to get one of these, and it’s going to change my life.’” At the time, Duchovny was a struggling actor who was auditioning for a number of completely different pilots. “I had plenty of those pilots that I went up for when I was first out in L.A. and I thought each one was going to be the break,” he stated. “I simply wanted to have the ability to pay my hire too.“

While it will need to have been disappointing to not get the gig, Duchovny admitted it was most likely for one of the best as he wasn’t adept at sitcom performing. “I did not know how to do that sitcom stuff,” he stated. “I don’t know what they were thinking, that they thought I was going to exist in that world. I mean, I guess I could have learned, but I wasn’t ready for that kind of, energetic performance that they need.” Thankfully, the actor’s profession would begin to take off with roles in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Twin Peaks, Chaplin, Red Shoe Diaries, and, after all, The X-Files.

In some alternate universe, we would have seen David Duchovny as one of many fundamental leads of Full House, however would The X-Files have been a hit with Lori Loughlin and Bob Saget?

One of the actor’s most up-to-date initiatives was Reverse the Curse, a comedy-drama which Duchovny wrote and directed based mostly on his personal novel Bucky F*cking Dent. He additionally starred within the film alongside Logan Marshall-Green and Stephanie Beatriz. You can take a look at a evaluation from our personal Alex Maidy proper right here, in addition to an interview with Duchovny, Marshall-Green, and Beatriz.