Gillian Anderson knows that The X-Files fans would love to see more of FBI agent Dana Scully. That does not mean she has interested in taking it on again.When she joined the original Fox series which aired from 1993 to 2002 she was excited to take on the obscure role that was different from pretty much everything else on television at the time says Anderson who has receiving Varietys Icon Award at CannesSeries.
I do not think it was as clear cut in my mind as being Oh this is a feminist character she told Varietys Manori Ravindran. I think that it was more of just This is a woman that I have not seen before on television and she has so unique.She went on to describe the sexist world she entered at the time something that caught her off guard.I was expected to walk behind co star David Duchovny when [our characters walked up to the front doors of the people we were investigating. There were things that I rebelled against she adds.
Anderson returned to The X Files world for the movie in 2008 and two additional seasons in 2016 and 2018. When that door closed again she had no plans to return and still does not.It just feels like such an old idea. I have done I did it for so many years and it also ended on such an unfortunate note she says referring to Scullys pregnancy reveal. In order to even begin to have that conversation about another season there would need to be a whole new set of writers and the baton would need to be handed on for it to feel like it was new and progressive. So yeah its very much in the past.
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