Rarely has the disparity in their heights and sizes been more evident than in the execution of this scene. DD is tall but does not look in the least bulky until he leans over and literally wraps himself around the diminutive GA in this scene. Towering over her, he practically absorbs her—-even in her stacked-heel boots—- as his arms enfold her to show her how to hold and swing the bat. She was fairly invisible except for her legs when I viewed one of the takes from directly behind them. Another point of fact is that they are as spooned as two individuals of such disparate heights can be and maintain plausible denial that they are congenitally conjoined (!) […]
Whether for our amusement or his own or, more likely, ensuring choice cuts for the crew’s private blooper tape, I cannot say, but, at *least* once, immediately after the “ROLLING” shout, David took advantage of having Gillian trapped “within” him, as it were, and —-sorry, folks, no other way to describe it—- busted a positively lewd move on her —-wriggling and well…, uh…thrusting “himself” into her. Several of us who spotted it (primarily the two of us with bionic-binocs that zoomed the couple into our eyelashes—- and we were all pretty close to begin with) gaped at each other and gasped in astonishment —- “… did you see what he did???”—- . As for Anderson, the way her giggling carries, there was no inferring that she was in any way offended. She never once insisted that filming stop and it didn’t until “CUT” was shouted by Director Duchovny when he decided it was time to get down to business.
Oh, this scene! This was also DD’s directorial debut on The X Files and he (pun intended) hit a home run with it. In my...