July 8, 2010

“I was out with my partner last night, quite late, grabbing a bite to eat, and there was a table full of giggly 20-something girls, drinking and talking non-stop, you know just out having fun. Not that was very much part of my life even before we started the series, but when I think to myself, ‘where was I then?’ or ‘how did I end up skipping that period?’ “I forget that I ended up skipping that period because I was working those years, instead of being out with girlfriends, or… out in the social scene and stuff. I was very myopic, and we were so often in Vancouver, and there just wasn’t room for it, there wasn’t enough time. It was… I don’t… I don’t regret it in any way, shape, or form. But I think I sometimes forget that I was AWOL almost for a decade.” GA, Washington Post, 2008

“I was out with my partner last night, quite late, grabbing a bite to eat, and there was a table full of giggly 20-something girls, drinking and talking non-stop, you know just out having fun. Not that was very much part of my life even before we started the series, but when I think to myself, ‘where was I then?’ or ‘how did I end up skipping that period?’

“I forget that I ended up skipping that period because I was working those years, instead of being out with girlfriends, or… out in the social scene and stuff. I was very myopic, and we were so often in Vancouver, and there just wasn’t room for it, there wasn’t enough time. It was… I don’t… I don’t regret it in any way, shape, or form. But I think I sometimes forget that I was AWOL almost for a decade.”

GA, Washington Post, 2008

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December 26, 2010

G: Then something else happened, that we can’t remember, during the actual series that was six years ago.  Apparently we had a baby.D: Yeah, a lot of stuff happened.Q: Wait a minute, there was a baby?D: Yeah, there was a baby. We don’t like to talk about it. It’s painful.G: Yeah! Yeah, we had a baby. I’d forgotten about it too so I don’t blame you.Q: It looks like there is one now. [Anderson is expecting this fall].G: Yes, but David, for once, does not have anything to do with it. That was with my other two, but not this one. D: What a time to tell me. - Filmazing.com, Jul 24, 2008 Ah, paternity jokes. A staple of our fandom.

G: Then something else happened, that we can’t remember, during the actual series that was six years ago.  Apparently we had a baby.

D: Yeah, a lot of stuff happened.

Q: Wait a minute, there was a baby?

D: Yeah, there was a baby. We don’t like to talk about it. It’s painful.

G: Yeah! Yeah, we had a baby. I’d forgotten about it too so I don’t blame you.

Q: It looks like there is one now. [Anderson is expecting this fall].

G: Yes, but David, for once, does not have anything to do with it. That was with my other two, but not this one.

D: What a time to tell me.

- Filmazing.com, Jul 24, 2008

Ah, paternity jokes. A staple of our fandom.

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February 21, 2011

“I don’t know why. Maybe just luck in the beginning. But after this long we actually do have a history… “And so when I look over at Gillian, or I’m Mulder looking over at Scully, there’s a lot of shit that I can call on. We have a lot between us, and so you don’t really have to make it up. “I think that just as people, now fifteen years later, we have just shared so much — regardless of how much we speak to one another. I expect to see Gillian, even if I haven’t seen her for a year.” DD, July 2008.

“I don’t know why. Maybe just luck in the beginning. But after this long we actually do have a history…

“And so when I look over at Gillian, or I’m Mulder looking over at Scully, there’s a lot of shit that I can call on. We have a lot between us, and so you don’t really have to make it up.

“I think that just as people, now fifteen years later, we have just shared so much — regardless of how much we speak to one another. I expect to see Gillian, even if I haven’t seen her for a year.”

DD, July 2008.

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January 26, 2012

DD: I have these very selective, kind of weird, very vivid memories that make no sense of that time… flashes of certain things that aren’t significant, like that. Do you have any memories that stand out? Like if I were to say give me five memories from the Vancouver years— being on set— just the first thing that comes to mind. […]
GA: Um… Well, the —
DD: The rain.
GA: —scene in the Pilot, with the rain.
DD: The rain.
GA: Yeah, is that a big one for you, too? Oh my god, the rain. My lips wouldn’t move! I was so cold!
DD: You were adorable.

IBG Meetup, July 2011

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March 23, 2012

“26. When Chris Carter walked into my hospital room a day or two after Piper was born and was stopped in his tracks by the sight of this living being propped up beside me. We sat in silence for a long time.” Gillian’s Top 30 Memories of TXF, May 2002

“26. When Chris Carter walked into my hospital room a day or two after Piper was born and was stopped in his tracks by the sight of this living being propped up beside me. We sat in silence for a long time.”

Gillian’s Top 30 Memories of TXF, May 2002

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April 21, 2012

During those first three years, Gillian Anderson went from unknown actress to a cover star. I ask how she dealt with this literal ego-trip, and she tells a rather uncomfortable story. “There was a period going through my divorce when for weeks I was in tears, I was on the phone constantly to him, with lawyers, and we were constantly having to touch up my make-up just to get through.“One of the producers pulled me aside and tried to tell me an analogy about an actress he had worked with who had started to do the covers and had started to get very full of herself and so she would show up to work late, and she was on the cellphone a lot. And I was absolutely appalled that he would think that was what was going on with me … I mean, everybody knew that I was going through a divorce. It made me more hypersensitive to not behave that way.” Gillian Anderson, The Times (UK), October 2000

During those first three years, Gillian Anderson went from unknown actress to a cover star. I ask how she dealt with this literal ego-trip, and she tells a rather uncomfortable story.

“There was a period going through my divorce when for weeks I was in tears, I was on the phone constantly to him, with lawyers, and we were constantly having to touch up my make-up just to get through.

“One of the producers pulled me aside and tried to tell me an analogy about an actress he had worked with who had started to do the covers and had started to get very full of herself and so she would show up to work late, and she was on the cellphone a lot. And I was absolutely appalled that he would think that was what was going on with me … I mean, everybody knew that I was going through a divorce. It made me more hypersensitive to not behave that way.”

Gillian Anderson, The Times (UK), October 2000

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April 22, 2012

The pregnancy caused consternation among the show’s executives. There may even have been people wondering why she didn’t have an abortion. “I think there were people who wished that I had. I am pro-choice but I knew that I could not do that. I know that there were people saying, ‘Why the fuck didn’t she use a condom?’” Her ambition did not run to abortions. “And on top of that, I didn’t want another burden to carry around,” she says, smiling. Gillian Anderson, The Times (UK), October 2000

The pregnancy caused consternation among the show’s executives. There may even have been people wondering why she didn’t have an abortion.

“I think there were people who wished that I had. I am pro-choice but I knew that I could not do that. I know that there were people saying, ‘Why the fuck didn’t she use a condom?’”

Her ambition did not run to abortions. “And on top of that, I didn’t want another burden to carry around,” she says, smiling.

Gillian Anderson, The Times (UK), October 2000

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