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Like many agents seeing client schedules cleared by the 2023 strikes, David Duchovny‘s suggested he start a podcast. Unlike many actors faced with that proposition, Duchovny had a hook: failure — or, rather, a reassessment of it. “This is the podcast that’s like, ‘OK, David failed at being a movie star,'” says the 63-year-old, referring to the period just after his wildly successful nine-season run on The X-Files. “Well, it enabled me to be a novelist, a musician, a director. I don’t really call it failure. It’s opportunity.”

Duchovny’s relationship with failure might be so healthy because of his successes. Fail Better debuted May 7 and soon made headlines for a viral interview with Bette Midler, during which the actress said she should have sued Lindsay Lohan for bailing on her 2000 sitcom, Bette. Indeed, Duchovny seems to find an audience for all of his varied pursuits — and there a lot of them. The Princeton- and Yale-educated actor rebounded from his own fallow period by starring in another long-running series, Californication, publishing five novels, releasing three albums (he sings and plays guitar) and directing his second feature film. Reverse the Curse, based on his novel Bucky F*cking Dent, stars the filmmaker as a dying Red Sox fan reconnecting with the son he neglected and gets a limited theatrical release June 14.

Speaking over the phone in late May from the Greek island of Paros, where he’s filming the Amazon series Malice, Duchovny opened up about his friendship with Garry Shandling, misconceptions about Method acting and the ever-present possibility of more X-Files.

How would you describe your relationship with failure?

I’m not a perfectionist, but I am never satisfied. The work is never what I imagined it would be. Sometimes, it’s better different. Sometimes, it’s worse differe