Angelina Jolie doesn’t act as much as she once did , but she’s still one of the biggest stars in the world. Seeing her now it’s impossible to see anything but a movie star, and that was apparently the case even before she was one. David Duchovny says that’s what he saw back when he “discovered” her for the film Playing God back in the late 1990s.
Unless you’re a serious fan of either Angelina Jolie or David Duchovny’s early attempts to break into film after making a name for himself on the X-Files , there’s a decent chance you’ve never seen 1997’s Playing God , which stars Duchovny as a doctor turned underworld surgeon. For some reason, it's one of those movies that's just been forgotten by time. Appearing on Radio Andy the actor says that when Angelina Jolie came into audition for the role of the female lead he insisted on casting her as he felt she was a star in the making.
He explained...
I feel like I discovered Angelina Jolie. ..
. Yeah, I was part of the casting – I didn’t discover her but..
. she came in, and I just knew she was a movie star, and I told everybody [that] we've gotta cast her. Exactly when a new star is “discovered” is rarely perfectly clear, as Duchovny himself admits by saying that both he did and did not discover Jolie.
He didn’t really discover Angelina Jolie, and yet, he feels like he did. The actress had some significant roles prior to Playing God , including most notably the early internet drama Hackers , but it seems.
