David Duchovny knows what the public thinks when two famous actors fall in love: another glamorous romance forged in Hollywood, where commitments are as make-believe as the movies. In other words: It'll never last. "Being public people, nobody wants to believe that there is any kind of a validity or innocence to it," says 37-year-old Duchovny about his relationship with his wife, Téa Leoni, 31, star of NBC's The Naked Truth. "There are people wanting to make up reasons for why you are together. You want the history so you can say, 'OK, now we have been married five years. Hah hah.'"

The couple met on the phone in January through their mutual agent, Risa Shapiro. Leoni had never seen The X-Files, but after three weeks of long-distance conversations — Duchovny from Vancouver, Leoni from Los Angeles — they went out on a date in Los Angeles. In May, three days after The X-Files finished shooting for the season, they were married in New York. The pair had only six weeks together before the X-Files movie began. "We didn't go on a honeymoon at all," Duchovny says. "We just wanted to, like, be in the same house. We just wanted to try to lead a normal life." Although Leoni was able to stay on the set with Duchovny at the beginning of shooting for the X-Files movie, in July she had to leave for Washington, D.C., to shoot "Deep Impact," an upcoming science-fiction picture for DreamWorks.

It's no surprise, then, that Duchovny is pushing to relocate The X-Files to Los Angeles, where his wife shoots her sitcom. "I feel like I have a family now," says Duchovny, who can't wait to create a regular home life with Leoni. "In very private ways it changes you completely. It is a wonderful thing. And in terms of work, I find her inspiring to me."