David Duchovny has admitted to experiencing a "strangely emotional" reaction to reading the scripts for the rebooted The X-Files.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the 54-year-old got a bit maudlin about Mulder and Scully and was in tears by the end of the first page.
"I got the first script this morning," he said. "I just read it about an hour ago and I started crying reading the first page. It was just so strange to see the names on the page.
"It had nothing to do with the script itself. It was just, like, I'd been talking about this for a long time. We'd been planning it for a long time. It took a long time to get all the people in the same place and get the deal with Fox.
"So let's say two years we've been talking about doing it. Now it's the fun part. Now we actually get to do it. That was nice and strangely emotional for me, and I'll have to figure out how to use that [in the performance]."
Although he's not permitted to divulge details from the highly-anticipated return of The X-Files, Duchovny did mention that he would entertain the idea of returning for more episodes.
"I would be open to doing another cycle," he said. "I don't know that I could do a 20-episode version of this show at this point in my life, and I don't know that Gillian [Anderson] could.
"But I think everybody is open ended on what happens after this. Certainly, we didn't bring it back with the idea of ending it."
The X-Files returns to Fox in the US for six brand new episodes in January 2016.
