Gillian Anderson remembers her years The X Files Very good.
The 55-year-old actress paid tribute to her starring role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi drama series by quoting a lyric from Taylor Swift’s latest studio album. The Department of Tortured Poets. “You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum they raised me in,” Anderson wrote in an April 26 post on X (formerly known as Twitter) alongside an image of Scully and Fox Mulder , performed by his teammate David Duchovny).
Her caption – taken from the song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” – refers to the FBI basement office that Scully and Mulder shared throughout the series’ nine years. Since Swift, 34, released the album on April 19, fans have used the phrase on social media to joke about the unconventional places they grew up.
Anderson and Duchovny led the Fox series from 1993 to 2002, as well as its brief reboot from 2016 to 2018. Scully’s portrayal was The crown the actress’ first major role, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1997.
On the April 3 episode of Today On the show, Anderson discussed rumors of a third go-round for the longest-running sci-fi series in American television history.
“It’s so funny because for most of my life, since I finished The X Files“Every interview I do, people have asked me and the answer has always been, ‘No, that’s not going to happen, that’s not going to happen,'” she told host Savannah Guthrie.
THE American Gods The star continued: “Now Ryan Coogler, who is the director of Black Panther – a brilliant, brilliant director – approached Chris Carter to say he wanted to make a version of the film and I can’t think of a better way to go about a reboot. ”
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Even though she said “there’s a chance [a reboot will] Happen,” the question of whether she would reprise her iconic role remains up in the air.
“Whether I’m involved in any of this is a whole different thing,” Anderson added, but she’s “not saying no.”
Anderson currently has other projects in the works, including a Tron the film is expected to be released in 2025 and The abandoned, a Western drama series opposite Lena Headey and Lucas Till. She recently starred in the biographical drama Scoopbased on the memoirs of television producer Sam McAlister.
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The X Files is streaming in full on Hulu.
