that David Duchovny (“He almost got his PhD,” Larson says).And then there’s Bill, whose wife died the year before and who’s just packed his daughter off to college overseas. “I think the way Amanda had originally written him in the script was something in the ballpark of ‘an incredibly respected and published star professor who happens to look more like a teenage surf punk and doesn’t give a s–t what he looks like or smells like,'” Duplass said.