David Duchovny Explains His NSFW Scene in 'Reverse the Curse'

David Duchovny is opening up about stripping down.

The 63-year-old actor’s latest movie Reverse the Curse, which he wrote and directed, features the star as a sick Red Sox fan whose condition worsens every time his beloved baseball team loses. When his adult son moves back home to take care of him, he manufactures a fake winning streak to keep his dad’s spirits high.

In one scene in the film, David and his co-star Logan Marshall-Green are changing in a men’s locker room. His character asks his son, “Are you uptight naked in front of your father?” After seeing his bare bottom half, David hugs him and says, “That’s a perfectly respectable prick you’ve got there, son,” via Variety.

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In an interview with Salon, he explained why it was important that his character showed off his bare backside.

“You can turn it into humor. You can look at horrific things with a sense of humor, and the humor comes from the fact that it’s going to happen to all of us,” he said. “It’s not like some people age and some people don’t, some people die and some people don’t.”

“If I’ve got one of my main characters — me — showing his his naked body to his son and saying, ‘It looks like a dead sparrow where my cock should be,’ I find that funny. I think we can laugh at that, and then hug it out. And he comments on his son’s penis in a way that’s funny. I’m laughing and I’m also moved in a way.”

He also explained why he feels he discovered Angelina Jolie.