David Duchovny wanted to return as Carrie’s high school sweetheart in Sex and the City.

David Duchovny is dishing about a lost opportunity regarding the reprisal of his role as Jeremy, Carrie Bradshaw’s high school sweetheart, on Sex And The City.

While promoting his new Fail Better podcast, which is all about ‘learning from failure and how it shapes our lives’, the Californication star, 63, revealed that he wished he could have returned to the hit HBO series for more episodes.

Duchovny appeared in the season six episode titled Boy, Interrupted, which aired in August 2003.

In it, the two old flames take steps to rekindle their romance when Jeremy drops a bombshell on Carrie and tells her he’s admitting himself to a psychiatric facility.

At the time, there was talk of getting Duchovny to reprise his role but it never came to fruition before the show ended its six-season run in February 2004.

‘We had talked about doing more and never ended up doing it,’ Duchovny, 63, told People. ‘I would’ve loved to have done more of that show.’

David Duchovny, 63, is dishing about a lost opportunity regarding the reprisal of his role as Jeremy, Carrie Bradshaw's high school sweetheart, on Sex And The City

David Duchovny, 63, is dishing about a lost opportunity regarding the reprisal of his role as Jeremy, Carrie Bradshaw’s high school sweetheart, on Sex And The City 

While promoting his new Fail Better podcast, which is all about 'learning from failure and how it shapes our lives', the Californication star revealed that he wished he could have returned to the hit HBO series for more episodes

While promoting his new Fail Better podcast, which is all about ‘learning from failure and how it shapes our lives’, the Californication star revealed that he wished he could have returned to the hit HBO series for more episodes 

But still, his positive experience working on the series with Parker is what drove his desire to want to return for more episodes.

‘We really had an immediate, easy working rhythm. I loved working with Sarah,’ he said of his working relationship with the Sex And The City leading lady.    

The New York City native has been able to work alongside a number of A-list leading ladies since bursting onto the Hollywood scene in the 1980s, including Minnie Driver in the rom-com Return To Me (2000).

‘I loved working with Minnie. She’s got a huge heart,’ he gushed about the British actress while looking back at his decades-long career.

He also added his Californication love interest Natascha McElhone to the list, calling her ‘the heart of that show, which ran for seven seasons on Showtime from 2007 to 2014.

Duchovny also heaped praise on longtime rom-com queen Meg Ryan after working with her in What Happens Later (2023). 

Of course, many fans of Duchovny first took note of the actor when he played alongside Gillian Anderson in the hit series X-Files (1993-2002, 2016-2018) for 11 seasons, on top of two feature films (1998, 2008).

For a man who has had so much success in his life and career, David Duchovny thought it would make perfect sense that he do a podcast about failure. 

The New York City native has been able to work alongside a number of A-list leading ladies since bursting onto the Hollywood scene in the 1980s, including Minnie Driver in the rom-com Return To Me (2000)

The New York City native has been able to work alongside a number of A-list leading ladies since bursting onto the Hollywood scene in the 1980s, including Minnie Driver in the rom-com Return To Me (2000)

He also added his Californication love interest Natascha McElhone to the list, calling her 'the heart of that show, which ran for seven seasons on Showtime from 2007-2014

He also added his Californication love interest Natascha McElhone to the list, calling her ‘the heart of that show, which ran for seven seasons on Showtime from 2007-2014

Duchovny also heaped praise on longtime rom-com queen Meg Ryan after working with her in What Happens Later (2023)

Duchovny also heaped praise on longtime rom-com queen Meg Ryan after working with her in What Happens Later (2023) 

Duchovny delves into failure, and its impact on our lives, in his Fail Better podcast that debuted May 7

Duchovny delves into failure, and its impact on our lives, in his Fail Better podcast that debuted May 7

‘Join me for my new podcast as we explore failure from the personal to the professional, and the ways in which failure shape our lives,’ he said in a clip posted on his Instagram page ahead of its debut on May 7.

‘To be human is to fail. And not just once, but often. But if it’s something we all do so frequently, why are we so afraid of it? David Duchovny wants to fail better, dammit,’ he shared as a brief description in the caption of the same post. ‘So, he’s sitting down with thoughtful people every week to talk about it. Because maybe if we fail better, we’ll feel better.’

Some of his more notable film roles includes Chaplin (1992), Kalifornia (1993), The X-Files: Fight The Future (1998), Return To Me (2000), Zoolander (2001), The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008), and What Happens Later (2023).

He has also has long and successful run on television with Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Red Shoe Diaries (1992-1997), The X-Files (1993-2002, 2016-2018), Californication (2007-2014), and Aquarius (2015-2016).

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