“I was on this really cool show.”
“Because when you’re doing something like that, all anybody says is, ‘Oh my god.
It’s the most amazing [thing]!’
Gillian Anderson plays Scully on ‘The X-Files’.Ken Staniforth/Fox/Everett
And you don’t wanna hear that anymore.
Ken Staniforth/Fox/Everett
And then, it hit her.
“I was kinda like, ‘Yeah.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny on ‘The X-Files’.FOX
That was kinda cool.
I was on this really cool show.'”
Anderson said she had just needed some space after so long in the role.
Anderson said that, for a while, she had “compartmentalized” the series.
Anderson previously said that she appreciates what the show did for her career, even if it was unexpected.
It was my first professional, proper gig, and it was a cannon of sorts.”
