He doesn’t want to believe.
David Duchovny hosts a new History Channel show, which premiered April 4 at 10 p.m., called “Secrets Declassified.”
On the series, the “X-Files” star explores real-life government cover-ups throughout history, including Area 51, Cold War-era tunnels and more. “We live in this age of, everything is a conspiracy theory. I thought, how interesting that these are actual declassified stories that — if they’re not conspiracies — some of them were done under cover, or out of the eye of the public,” Duchovny, 64, exclusively told The Post.
“But, it shows how ridiculous some of these actual conspiracies are.” Contrary to his “X-Files” character, Fox Mulder, whose famous tagline is “I want to believe,” Duchovny is “not an actual conspiracy theorist. I believe there’s always kind of a mundane explanation,” he said.
He added that “Secrets Declassified” shows that “there are mundane explanations, or often ridiculous explanations of insane [things] going on.”
This includes believing that there’s a dull explanation for UFOs. “I don’t really think about UFOs, to be honest with you,” he quipped to The Post.
Duchovny finds that the stories he explores on the show are “all surprising and interesting.” “Mostly because they are true,” he explained. “I find most of the conspiracy theories on the internet not interesting, because to me they’re so obviously not true and the result of kind of lazy thinking and the need for a bad guy.”
But on the show, “it’s usually a group of people who are really trying to do a good thing, but going about it all the wrong way.”
The “Californication” alum, who is also a musician and writer with a new book of poetry, has dipped in and out of playing Fox Mulder on “The X-Files” for 30 years – the original series ran from 1993 to 2002, then there were revival seasons in 2016 and 2018 and movies in 1998 and 2008. Despite the show’s huge success, the actor isn’t sure if he’d return for more.
“I don’t know,” he revealed. “I was just interviewing Graydon Carter on my podcast and he always asks, ‘What’s the point of the thing? Why do this thing now?’ And so, it’s very probable that there could be a good point to doing it and it’s also possible that we won’t have a point of doing it.”
He’d be open to returning if they found “a point to do it and everybody wants to do it.”
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson at SAG Awards 2025
Duchovny starred alongside Gillian Anderson, 56, on the drama. “We live in different parts of the world now, so whenever she’s in my part of the word, or I’m in hers, we’ll see each other,” he explained, noting he sees her “once in a while.”
Duchovny and his ex-wife, Téa Leoni, 59, have two children: Kyd, 22, and actress, West Duchovny, 25.
West’s budding acting career has included “The Magicians” and “Painkiller.” Duchovny said he hasn’t given her much advice.
“Advice is not really something that parents should try to give their kids. She is on her own way, she’s extremely talented and she’s charting her own path,” he said about his daughter.
“So, any advice would just be on my path, and it’s hers. It’s her life, it is her career, and she’s gonna make it what it is, and she is gonna be fantastic.”
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