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he man made a mark.
The X-Files Magazine caught up with drama] 21 Jump Street. That’s weird. But I Steven Williams arrived on
Williams in the midst of filming the
think I know why. 21 Jump Street is on all The X-Files scene back in
series finale.
over, all the time. You’d be surprised. Here Season Two, first portraying
in Los Angeles, a lot of kids are seeing it for the mysterious and austere
THE X-FILES MAGAZINE: Before “The the first time. If X-Files fans recognize me,
‘X,’ Mulder’s informant, in
Truth” beckoned you back to The X-Files, it’s the avid ones, not the casual viewers.
“Sleepless.” He returned again and again
it had been a while since you’d appeared I think I ended up doing 12 or 13 shows
– in such episodes as “One Breath,” “Soft
on the show. How often were you still
as a recurring character over three seasons Light,” “Nisei,” “Wetwired” and “Talitha
being recognized by X_philes as X?
on The X-Files, whereas I was a regular on Cumi” – and even when a bullet finally
STEVEN WILLIAMS: It was strange,
Jump Street. So there’s not a lot of recogni-took him down in “Herrenvolk,” one could
man. Maybe it’s that people that watch The tion from The X-Files, but what is there still feel his presence looming about the
X-Files didn’t start watching until after is awesome.
proceedings. X turned up briefly in the fifth I was gone, but I don’t get recognized a
season opener, “Unusual Suspects,” but
whole bunch for The X-Files. What I get Ok, once and for all, who was X?
wasn’t heard from again until “The Truth.”
recognized most for is still [the police
You know what? People ask me that, and I
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never thought about who X was. For me as
they could try to figure out who he was, if
“That individual has not been revealed yet.”
an actor, the less I knew about X, the better he was a good guy or a bad guy. He’s just
And there was this look that said, “Who
it was for me. I didn’t play the character or a mystery.
are these two guys? What are they to each
deliver his lines in any certain way. I tried This isn’t just from an actor’s point of
other? Is CSM X’s boss? Is X CSM’s boss?
to play him with as much ambiguity as pos-
view of “I want a job,” but there was so
Are they equals? What’s the deal? Why
sible, so that each individual who watched much more to be said about X. There was
is X keeping secrets from these guys?” It
the show could make up his or her own
so much more to be explored about him.
was one of those mysterious things. I have mind about who X was. We just don’t know.
They have excellent writers on The X-Files to say I was disappointed that they didn’t He remains a mystery to me. He remains
and I don’t know why they didn’t explore
explore this guy more, and I think a lot of a mystery to the audience. He remains a
more of him. One of my favorite scenes
the audience was disappointed.
mystery to everybody. I wanted him to be
with X was the one in which he had an
this big enigma.
encounter with the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Of the episodes you did, which moments
The interesting thing with the fans
They were sitting in a car and CSM says,
are you most fond of?
is that they wanted to see more of him,
“Somebody has been passing information
I loved the episode with that scene between because the more they saw of him the more
onto Mulder,” and X turns to him and says, CSM and X. At one point I really wasn’t
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interacting with anyone but Mulder, so in-
Skinner react to X? Would X kill Skinner
Mulder. I think it was “Sleepless.” I blow teracting with the other actors and the other on the spot?” He pulls a gun and says, “I’ve the guy away and I thought, “I like this characters was fun. I loved the scene with killed men for a lot less, but I’m going to let character.” And the scene looked great. You X and Skinner fighting on the elevator. Not you go.” I liked the quick encounter I had had the shadow on the wall and you saw
only do I like Mitch as a person, but also with Scully. But my favorite moment of all the gun and “Blam!” You just knew X was
you had these two guys, X and Skinner, and was in my first episode, where they were a cold-hearted son of a bitch and you didn’t you’re thinking, “Who are they? How will
trying to get Scully’s blood and I rescue
know who, why, what or where.
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Where do you think X is now?
because I wanted to do it for those fans who I played a narcotics dealer on death row for I will never, ever really think he is dead.
really dug X, who dig me. I didn’t worry
a murder he did not commit. He’s been setup Absolutely not. As an actor I held out hope about the number of lines or the money. I
and he gets Kuzak to represent him for his he wasn’t dead, so that I could possibly come just did it for the fans. If they did an X-Files final appeal before he’s executed.
back on the show. But as part of the show
finale without X it would probably make a lot Before that I did a couple of episodes of itself, who knows? Maybe he is an alien.
of fans sad, especially X fans. So I’m there.
Stargate SG-1, which were directed by Peter You have to remember that in the episode
And if they ask me to be in the next X-Files DeLuise, my old 21 Jump Street co-star.
in which X was killed, Jeremiah Smith was
movie, I’ll be there, too.
Before that, things were great because I was around, and he was a guy who could bring
doing two series, Linc’s and Legacy. And be-people back. He had healing powers that
So what else have you been up to lately?
fore that I was doing L.A. Heat and recurring could bring you back from the dead. So I’ve I’m keeping busy, but it’s been a little slow, on The X-Files.
always had it in the back of my mind that
frankly. The industry is still recovering [from The bottom kind of dropped out at the end Jeremiah found X in the hallway after he’d the strikes that almost happened]. Things
of 1999. It was one of those periods actors been shot and brought him back to
were rushed into production and then there have, where everything got canceled. And it life somehow.
was nothing. But I did an episode of The was real slow in 2000 and 2001. Now, thanks District, where I played a judge. I’ve finally to The X-Files and L.A. Law and a few other Let’s talk about the finale.
graduated from cop to lawyer to judge. I did things that look like they might happen, it’s They didn’t give me a script, so again it was the L.A. Law reunion movie, which was a big turning around. They say it’s cyclical. I’m in a mystery to me. They called me and said,
sweeps movie for NBC. They’re bringing
my Morgan Freeman phase. “Get me now,
“W
e want you to appear in this episode.”
back a lot of old shows to celebrate their 75th people!”
I’m happy to be back. I was frustrated by not anniversary. I’d done a couple of episodes of being back for so long, but I said yes to this the show years ago, and in the reunion movie Steven Williams, thank you very much.
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