Tea Leoni: The Truth About Tea

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Tea Leoni took a couple of years off after starring in the hit disaster movie, Deep Impact, to start a family with David Duchovny. At the time of this profile from the Dec-Jan 2001 issue of Movieline magazine, Leoni was returning to the big screen in the It’s a Wonderful Life riff, The Family Man. She talks about her husband’s sex addiction, why she sent porn to Brett Ratner and shy she’s not the right person to call if you need a lifeline on a gameshow.

Téa Leoni is sitting in a corner of the Allegria cafe and restaurant in Malibu sipping herbal tea. It’s a beautiful Thursday afternoon. Her hair is short and blonde, her blouse is the color of the sky outside, and she’s wearing thick gold bands around two of her fingers, a silver bracelet, a pink-faced wristwatch and two necklaces, one of jade beads and the other, a gift from her husband, David Duchovny, of precious stones. The former star of the TV sitcom “The Naked Truth” isn’t fond of doing interviews, but she’s got a film to promote, The Family Man, her first since the highly successful Deep Impact two years ago. She’s in a reflective mood when Duchovny walks in, unshaven and dressed in black pants and a white T-shirt.

“Sit, sit,” Duchovny says as I stand to say hello. “I’m not staying.”

“Where are you going?” his wife asks.

“I’m going to get some acupuncture.”

“Could you bring home a couple of needles for my face?”

“I’ll try. After that I’m going to go to yoga, then I’ll be home.”

“Can you pick up food for tonight? It’s just us.”

“All right, I’m going,” Duchovny says.

When he’s gone she smiles at me. “That’s our exciting life.”