Gillian
Anderson Interview - 2008 Wonder Con
by: Rebecca Murray
How does that feel when you walk out on the stage and everyone screams?
Gillian Anderson: "It's been a really long time since I've
heard that so it's, you know, it's cool. It's great that everybody's
made the effort to come out and just show their support. I think
it's good for us to know that there's still an audience out there."
Did you doubt that?
Gillian Anderson: "No, I don't think we doubted it but, you
know, it's extra confirmation that people still are interested in
what we have to give."
Is it an added weight on your shoulders when you realize that you
have so many millions of fans that have just been waiting for this
movie forever?
Gillian Anderson: "I've been trying not to think about that,
so thank you very much. Yeah, I'm sure on some level. Yeah, yeah,
definitely on some level, just in the quality of it, just wanting
it to be. But also I think that Chris (Carter) and Frank (Spotnitz)
have come up with a script that satisfies a lot of the fans' needs
and that in and of itself hopefully will tick a lot of the boxes,
you know? We just want it to be good. We want people to be satisfied."
I was shocked to hear you say in the panel that you came in and
you thought you were ready, and you weren't. Was that a shock to
you to actually realize you had to think more about Scully?
Gillian Anderson: "It was a shock. It was really frustrating
and most of it, as I said, was because I spent such a long time trying
to get her out of my head and react to certain things in ways that
Scully wouldn't, that when my brain wanted me to get back into it,
it was a challenge. It took a lot longer than I thought it did. But
coming in, I'd just flown back from India and then the next day from
London to Vancouver, and then the next day working, and really two
intense scenes. What I was relying on was that it would be easy,
and it wasn't at all. But I think we got it."
Gillian Anderson
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