Scully returns!
Gillian Anderson photo and podcast interview from Empire.
We will always be X-philes and we’re happy to see Gillian Anderson in anything. Post X-Files we’ve seen her in a lot of period dramas, including Bleak House, Great Expectations, and the hilarious making-of-a-period-movie movie, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
Gillian Anderson never fails us, but she was incandescent as Lily Bart in the Terence Davies adaptation of The House of Mirth. Lucky we caught it at the Toronto festival in 2000 because no one else seems to have seen it. Why is this movie not airing on cable 24 hours a day? Why isn’t it the video widely available? Why isn’t it taught in schools? It’s criminal to neglect work this fine.
We’ve been watching the miniseries The Fall, in which Anderson plays a hard-nosed cop on the trail of a serial killer. You might call it typecasting (Darkness, death, weirdness—Call Gillian Anderson!), but apart from the character’s fierce intelligence it’s an un-Scully role (like, she gets laid). She also plays Hannibal Lecter’s psychiatrist on the TV series Hannibal, which we are looking forward to because we were promised that Mads Mikkelsen abstains from the “Hellooooo Clariiiiiice” theatrics.
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June 2nd, 2013 at 23:22
I’ve only seen her in Bleak House, where she was excellent. I couldn’t believe that she was the same actress who played Scully.
June 3rd, 2013 at 10:38
I love Scully! Haven’t seen The Fall yet, though. Big fan of Hannibal (but don’t want to be called a fannibal). And she was offered roles in Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey (http://www.gilliananderson.ws/messages/) but doesn’t want to talk about them anymore for the most laudable of reasons. I love Scully!
June 3rd, 2013 at 15:02
i love gillian anderson, too! i think i saw a pirated dvd of house of mirth a long time ago and i didn’t buy it. i was wondering where gillian was in the podcast. british accent na pala siya!
June 3rd, 2013 at 22:31
There also seems to be a group of people who would love to have her as the Twelfth Doctor. More aliens!