Shortly after announcing his third album, Gestureland (out August 20th), David Duchovny talked with QRO. In the conversation, the actor/director/musician/author discussed the new album (including stopping making it for almost a year), co-writing with his band, hopefully touring (just not Europe in the winter…), pandemic kids, this year’s Audible production The Reservoir, this year’s new novel Truly Like Lightning (and making it into a Showtime series), Bucky (F*cking) Dent (and Bill (F*cking) Buckner), Spotify’s f*cking logarithm, Zalman King, the fictional David Duchovny, and much more…

QRO: How have you been holding up during all of this?

David Duchovny: Pretty well. I was lucky enough to be able to be in New York with my son, mostly, over the initial lockdown, from a year ago last early spring. And that was actually quite wonderful, in its own way – aside from, obviously, the pandemic’s a horrible thing. To be able to spend that much time with a boy who just turning 18. It was definitely interesting, and something that I would have wished I would have decided to do, had there not been a global pandemic forcing me…

So, I was in New York for really when it was the epicenter, and through that. I got COVID in October of that year, after the summer. It wasn’t that bad for me; I mean, it wasn’t a picnic, but I didn’t have to be hospitalized or anything like that.

It was very strange. In fact, I just wrote a novella, which is on Amazon Audible. I thought, ‘Oh, I’m never gonna write anything inspired by this,’ and it kinda just came out. It was a very interesting kind of process, to kind of write my way through the story, in a way, kind of writing what it meant to me, or writing what it was all about to me. Kind of making it clear, thoughts that I wouldn’t have had, had I not tried to write this story.

QRO: Did your son graduate high school during the pandemic?

DD: He just graduated high school this past spring.

You know, it’s hard to gage the effects of the kind of isolation. Obviously, adults have it a bad, but I think kids, teenagers…

Young kids, too. Say you’re a three- or four-year-old kid. You’re supposed to start going to socialize, you know, not be a selfish monster anymore. Now you don’t get to do that for a year-and-a-half.

It’s odd to think about the developmental slowing down that might happen. And we won’t know for years.

QRO: I was just thinking that your son missed all the graduation parties…

DD: He missed all that…

For me, that was never… I mean, I’m not him; I can’t speak to that. But, to me, that was always bullshit. To me, I would miss the community of school. I had a nice experience in high school; I looked forward to going to school. I loved the kids that I was with, didn’t want to be at home.

So, I can’t imagine, if I’d had to lockdown like junior & senior year. I would have just been so miserable…

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