David Duchovny Talks The Estate and His Homegrown Mustache

The Estate may be the perfect Thanksgiving movie in that the family in the film is more horrible than yours. In The Estate, Kathleen Turner plays Aunt Hilda, a horrible, crotchety relation who happens to be very wealthy, on her deathbed, and has no husband or children to inherit her estate. This leads to a battle between nieces and nephews Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, and Rosemarie DeWitt to win a place in Aunt Hilda s heart and will. David Duchovny stars as Richard, or Dick, as he prefers to be known. Dick is a truthteller, according to Duchovny; a benign narcissist. Memorably, he spends most of the film hitting on his first cousin, Macey (Collette), trying to convince her to run off with him, that cousin sex is okay nowadays. It doesn t end well for Dick, but it ends in a lot of laughs for us, the audience. Duchovny and I sat down to discuss The Estate, raucous comedy, and how Dick reminds him of his character Hank Moody from Californication.