David Duchovny Says ‘X-Files’ Creator “Foresaw” Conspiracy Culture Taking Over
deadline.comAlthough the truth is out there, David Duchovny keeps his feet firmly planted on the ground these days when it comes to outlandish theories.
The X-Files alum reflected on his time on the hit sci-fi series and how creator Chris Carter was “almost clairvoyant” in his depiction of the conspiracy culture that has taken over much of the country. “Mulder’s way of looking at the world was through conspiracy and that was the fringe at that point,” he told The Times of his beloved character. “It doesn’t seem to be so fringe any more.
It’s really the world that Chris Carter foresaw happening almost 30 years ago.” Although he finds conspiracies to be “mostly just lazy thinking,” Duchovny doesn’t consider himself to be any more evidence-based than FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. “Not at all.
I’m an artist — I am associative-based and I see poetry as science and science as poetry,” he said. Duchovny and Gillian Anderson starred as Mulder and Scully on the Fox sci-fi series, which ran for nine seasons from 1993 to 2002 before it was revived for two more seasons between 2016 and 2018.
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