Why is David Duchovny naked except for a teapot?

Factual Questions
1

I was using Google image search to try and find pics for an upcoming webcomic called Errant Story when this picture popped up.

Can someone please explain what is going on? Is this photoshopped? It was attached to what seemed like a legit news article, but it had no explanation for the photo. Was this from some episode that I missed? And why the hell is he wearing a little teapot? Why not a cup, or some other object?

This is a serious question, where and why is this photo?

2

I saw a movie about 6 years ago that a friend of mine said he got from a girl at school that got it from another friend that got it from…, well, you know the story, anyway, he told me it was footage of Duchovny that hadn’t made for the public.
I remember the teacup scene, it was very quick if I remember correctly and I don’t think it was made for anything in particular, it looked like he was just messing around.

The tape didn’t have a lable so I don’t know what the name of it was, if it had one.

I know that doesn’t help much but that’s all I know about it.

3

Why couldn’t it have been Tea Leoni posing naked with a davidpot instead?

4

I heard he was messing around on a movie set and the photographer snapped the pix. They were never meant to be public but did end up in The Enquirer and other rags. And it’s a teacup, not a teapot. Not many men are secure enough in their masculinity to show the world that they can fit their genitalia in a teacup. :slight_smile:

5

I read an interview with Duchovny where he was asked about the pictures. He said he was at his manager’s house doing a photo shoot and was just goofing around between changes of clothes. He said someone later absconded with the pictures and sold them.

6

Looks like dwyr is mostly correct:

http://duchovny.net/articles/stern5_98.htm

DD: I will tell you the truth. Right before…we had done the X Files pilot…we were about to go do the series in Vancouver, we did a little photo shoot in case we needed pictures of me. I was in my manager’s house and she’s English so, therefore, she has a lot of teacups, and I was just goofing around, I was changing and she had a cigar and the teacups and I just put the teacup over my…

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DD: It’s kind of a sad story. A man who was working as my publicist at the time - who I won’t name and who actually did a lot of work for free for me when I couldn’t afford it - I guess got payment in this way by turning around and selling this picture years later…and it’s not that harmful, I mean, it’s kind of a goofy picture…

7

From an interview in The Daily Telegraph, August 4, 1998 :

http://duchovny.net/articles/telegraph.htm

8

Thanks so much for that link! That is the most sexy nekkid photo of a man I’ve seen, precisely because it is so goofyand sweet; no serious macho posturing, and his bits covered by a teacup makes ya want to smile just about long enough to jump him. Yikes! My admiration of David Duchovny has just been upped quite a few notches.

Neither he nor Tea has anything to be ashamed of. It’s a strong, sweet, funny photo.

9

Wow, thanks for the info.

And I am amazed that no one has made any “short and stout” jokes yet.