January 26, 2012
Trained in the theater, she stepped before a camera for only the third time when she filmed “The X-Files” pilot episode. “Let me tell you about tension and stress,” Anderson recalls. “I was a mess. It’s taken me a while, and I’m still learning every single day I work.”
The show’s long work hours and location also have conspired to keep the 25-year-old from feeling the full impact of jumping from TV unknown to series lead. “I’m not out much,” Anderson says. “I work and I go home. I work on the scripts. I wake up and come to work. And in between I try to get my bills paid.”
AP, Feb 1994
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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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January 27, 2012
The very polite Canadians who recognize her from the show, which airs there, tend to keep their distance, Anderson says. But even discreet recognition can be unnerving to a fledgling TV star.
“There is something vulnerable about being in the public eye, to a certain degree,” she says. “Having that feeling, hearing ‘Scully’ whispered as you pass people. It reminds you constantly that you’re not in your private little world.”AP, Feb 1994
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January 30, 2012
“I had a very good feeling that this show would be successful. But I don’t think it’s really even hit me yet. Once in a while I’ll be driving down the street in Canada and think, ‘I’m in Canada. How did I get here?’”
GA, AP, Feb 1994
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