David Duchovny Talks Debut Album, Flower Power, and New "X-Files" with Speakeasy (WSJ's blog) as he was driving to the airport in Los Angeles.
What’s “Hell or Highwater” about?
I hate to talk about lyrics because I feel like they’re written down
that way because that’s the way I wanted them to be heard. Not explain
them or make them literal. But “Hell or Highwater” is…I like to think
there’s a sense of humor there – it’s bleak, but someone’s still
laughing. Someone’s still there.
The trailer for your new show “Aquarius” finds you beating up hippies and tracking down Charles Manson. This seems intense.
It is intense. I play a man of the ‘20s and ‘30s in the ‘60s. I’m not
down with the hippies and the flower power and the drugs. I’m Joe
Friday and I don’t like what I’m seeing. My worst feelings are confirmed
when I get involved a little with Charlie Manson.
Are you involved in X Files Revival more this time, like directing or producing?
I would’ve directed but there’s only going to be six [episodes]. The
problem [with] directing, you have to be absent as an actor for the
episode before – you have to prep it. With only six, I think that’s
unfair. So, no.
What’s going to be the challenges for Mulder and Scully?
[Laughs.] I don’t know! Honestly, I haven’t seen word one. I’m
supposed to get a script maybe this weekend. You know, the challenges
might be fitting into the clothes.
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“The Long and Winding Road” by The Beatles
“So sad. So nostalgic. We all have a road and they're all long and winding.”
“High Flying Bird” by Elton John
“Why isn't this one of Elton’s most well-known songs? It kills me. I don't know if I'm the bird or the archer. Or both.”
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Duchovny Goes Electric. The erstwhile star of ‘The X-Files’ is releasing an album. Of music. And
it’s pretty good. He has also published his first novel, is headlining a
new Charles Manson miniseries for NBC, and will soon be Agent Mulder
once more. This is the dawning of the age of David Duchovny (illustration by Tom DesLongchamp).
Full interview: Grantland