David Duchovny has admitted that he once thought he saved a man’s life.

The Joneses star revealed that he came across a stranger who was struggling to breathe and quickly ran to the rescue, reports Contactmusic.

Duchovny said: “I was in Vancouver shooting X-Files and one night I went outside to walk my dog. I see a guy in a bathrobe and as I got closer and I could tell he was choking.

“So I grabbed him and did my best Heimlich manoeuvre, like I’m really yanking on his diaphragm. Finally, he calmed down and I waited with him until an ambulance came.”

It wasn’t until a year later that the 49-year-old actor realised that he didn’t save the man from choking to death.

Duchovny added: “I was in a restaurant and he came up to me and said, ‘Remember me. You gave me the Heimlich, but I was just having an anxiety attack’. I’m thinking, ‘Thank God I didn’t kill him’. Anyway, he bought me a drink.”

The Joneses is currently playing in the US and opens in the UK on April 23. [SOURCE]

Perhaps you haven’t encountered your jealous side yet. Maybe you’ve never coveted thy neighbor’s big-screen TV or riding mower, and there’s a chance you haven’t wanted to look as skinny, sexy and young as them. This weekend, all that might change if you head to the theater to meet “The Joneses.”

“For me, if you can provide entertainment and be provocative in the sense of it creating conversation,” Demi Moore explained of her goal when taking on a starring role in the new thought-provoking drama/comedy that just opened, “I feel like you have delivered something that is substantial.”

The film has a hook that is rife with possibility: A family moves into a posh town and sets up shop in a McMansion, as the moving men unload their fancy cars, clothes and electronics. After the neighbors wander over, get jealous and begin making big buys of their own, we learn that “The Joneses” are actually a picture-perfect manufactured “family” of salesmen embedded by corporate America to drive sales of certain products.

“When I figured out the conceit — that there were these families that were placed in communities to inconspicuously consume,” marveled David Duchovny, who plays the “father” of the family, “I thought, ‘It’s just an undeniable idea. It’s just a perfect movie idea.’ ”

But as the film progresses and the Joneses keep talking neighbors into buying expensive cars and flat-screen TVs to keep pace with them, an ethical dilemma begins to present itself: Where does the job end and ruthless exploitation begin? Read more…

I have added screencaps of David on Jimmy Kimmel.