Aaron Eckhart On Paranormal 'Suspect Zero'

[Wednesday, August 25th, 2004]
Aaron EckhartAaron Eckhart, star of the upcoming paranormal thriller Suspect Zero, says he now believes in the psychic phenomenon of "remote viewing." "I didn't have training sessions, because I didn't need to know how to do it in the movie, but I went out and spent time with [a supposed remote viewer], and he remote-viewed in front of me," Eckhart told Sci-Fi Wire "He took me through a couple of cases and got me believing in it, but I actually never tried it myself."

In Suspect Zero, Eckhart plays a troubled FBI agent who teams up with his former partner, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, to track down a rogue agent (Ben Kingsley), who is hunting serial killers by using remote viewing, a combination of mind-reading and clairvoyance. Eckhart said that his remote viewer experienced some of the same pressures as those Kingsley's feels. "I think the burden that was on his shoulder was the burden of knowing things that he couldn't convince other people of, because it was [acquired] in a way that was unconventional," Eckhart said. "I talked to the FBI after I was with him, and they said, 'We do not condone that. We don't use these guys. I don't know what he is talking about. The guy is a lunatic.' It's interesting to see how law enforcement is much more meat-and-potatoes, and these guys are over here working in truffles."

Eckhart says he understands the real FBI's skepticism about remote viewing. "It's that whole question about intuition and not being able to trust something you can't see," Eckhart said. "If you're having delusions or having any sort of confusion, the first thing to do is to distrust that, and that's what I think is happening here. I think the FBI or law enforcement in particular is very apprehensive about condoning anything like that, because of the way [the] public takes remote viewing. They're not going to accept that. If you say to the wife or the mother of a kidnapped victim, ... 'We're going to go remote-view,' they're like, 'What the f--k are you talking about? Get some officers out there!' In this movie, the wonderful thing is that our two worlds do coincide to get the man."

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