Ahead of his London performance this weekend, the X-Files star talks about ageing, his music career, and conspiracy theory culture
is getting ready for his biggest gig to date. Not an acting gig – nothing will ever top his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder in. No, this is a musical one. For the past decade, Duchovny has pivoted to singer-songwriting, and this weekend he will perform at Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
It has the feel of something that snowballed out of hand; he only started playing the guitar in his fifties after he insisted the writers ofincorporate a storyline where Hank learned the instrument. “That was just an evil plan that, in my very cheap ways, I could get free lessons.” Duchovny is known for his intensity and intellect: he graduated from Princeton and Yale with English Literature degrees – his poetry was commended by the Academy of American Poets – before leaving his PhD to. Hence his songs are deep in meaning on love, loss and philosophy. One, 2020’s “Layin’ on the Tracks”, takes a pop at Donald Trump .
His music career could have been a failure, a concept he tackles on his new podcast Fail Better. In conversation with the likes of Ben Stiller, Bette Midler and Sarah Silverman, he attempts to reframe failure into a positive, a necessary to succeed. But surely there are different levels of failure – those on the podcast have the chance to fail more than most.
“But there’s the other side – I didn’t write my PhD. I can consider that a failure. Sometimes I see my branching out or my being a hyphenate as a kind of failure of focus. And I think the more we embrace the lack of inhibition around failing, the happier we will be not just as creative people, but as people.”– a global phenomenon after its 1993 premiere that, even upon its reboot in 2016, was watched by more than 50 million people – led to failure on some levels.
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