I'd just spent a few hours listening Gillian
Anderson film a scene on THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE. Sadly all I could
hear were loud footsteps and a slammed door (which Anderson would later say was
just an accident). I thought for sure I could get her to spill the beans. While slightly more forthcoming than her counterparts, Anderson stopped short of telling me exactly what she was doing back there. (Lucky for you, I later was able to sneak a peek at that very scene - more on that to come at a later day...)
Anderson looked as beautiful as ever, years after she was one of the most adored women in the land of fanboys. She was also surprisingly warm, funny and vulgar (she dropped more f*cks than the rest of the cast and crew combined). Here's what she had to say about returning to play Dana Scully after all these years...
Gillian Anderson
Why
come back to this after all this time?
Well, I
did. And I did. But I think that, ah, I’ve always made it clear no
matter what’s been rumored at various times in the press that were we to come
together or were somebody to get it together in order to do a film, I would be
happy and willing and hopefully able to participate. And, ah, I just
assumed it would be a matter of time. There were a few times there when it
looked like it might not happen. But you know there were many times there where
I thought even when people were saying it was going to happen I didn’t believe
it was going to happen. But I was always on board. No matter what
else I was deciding to do in my life at the time. So…
What’s
it like to come back to THE X-FILES? Is it familiar or does it seem
strange to be stepping back into these shoes that you left so many years ago?
