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[NikitA]

В ноябре Джилл ожидают в Тулузе



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[NikitA]

Boston Comic Con
Unfortunately Gillian Anderson has cancelled her appearance at #BostonComicCon. Photo ops will be refunded.

Gillian Anderson
I'm really sorry everyone - a family emergency prevents me from attending

[Vera]

В ноябре Джилл ожидают в Тулузе



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У нее фото и автографы за деньги, и Джилл будет один день только.
Зато два дня там будет Фрэнк Спотниц, и у него все бесплатно
Никто не поедет?

[Белая Тигрица]

Никто не поедет?

Эх...

[NikitA]

Gillian Anderson Chases Her Shadow

After years spent building a successful post-X-Files career, the actress is ready to revisit Dana Scully.

By Gaby Wood
New York Magazine: December 28, 2015



Gillian Anderson believes in ghosts. "I haven't seen ghosts," she explained in November when we met on a chilly day at a cozy London hotel, "but I'm very hypersensitive, and I generally feel like I can tell if a house is haunted." She also has "a tendency to believe that people are able to see the future and read minds" and knows "completely sane people who have experienced poltergeists."

Mulder would approve. Scully? Not so much. That's FBI Special Agent Dana Scully, of course - the skeptical X-Files character Anderson made famous, and whom she'll play again when the show returns to Fox as a six-episode mini-series in late January. But Anderson thinks quite differently from the character that boosted her career, and you might say that Scully herself has become a ghost for the actress - a faint, permanent presence, and one that she's invited back for a full-scale haunting.

Anderson, now 47 years old, last played Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the second X-Files feature film, in 2008 (the television series ended in 2002), and she has spent the years between then and now moving beyond her. To a large extent, she's succeeded - TV viewers, especially in the U.K., are likely to recognize Anderson (now definitively blonde rather than a redhead) as the very British detective Stella Gibson from the BBC crime drama The Fall. Theatergoers will have her award-winning performance as Blanche DuBois in London last year fresh in their minds (a role she's reprising at Brooklyn's St. Annв€™s Warehouse this spring). But with the attendant hubbub surrounding Scully's long-awaited reappearance, it's easy to see that Anderson has never really lost her status as a poster girl for the paranormal.

Yet unlike her co-star David Duchovny, who at times during the original X-Files run gave the disgruntled impression of feeling destined for greater things, Anderson was a woman to whom science fiction came easily. She has always loved films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind; she now co-writes sci-fi novels and records the audiobooks herself. She has, as she put it, self-deprecatingly holding her fingers up for air-quotes, "a lot of sci-fi cred." Which is good, since the world of pop-culture tentpoles has evolved into one ruled by the kinds of genres that used to be looked down on. Sci-fi and fantasy are "all there is to see anymore," Anderson pointed out matter-of-factly, and the result is that, two decades on, the Zeitgeist has come to her - and Scully - as much as she's come to it.

Anderson brought a breeze with her as she arrived at our hotel meeting spot, dashing into the lobby wearing a black leather coat. She quickly ordered a coffee and unpeeled some aspirin from a foil packet, hesitating only slightly over a glass of water in front of me. I pushed it toward her, with the warning that I'd drunk from it already. "Oh, I don't mind that at all," she said briskly, as if life were too short to worry about germs, or anything else.

She was meeting with me between visits to prospective schools for her 9-year-old son, Oscar (she has a 21-year-old daughter, Piper, from her first marriage, and two young sons, Felix and Oscar, with her ex-partner Mark Griffiths), and had come using a driving app that speaks to her in the voice of C-3PO. "He says to me, 'In 250 yards, turn left, Master,'" she said. "So I like that quite a lot."

Some men who've met Anderson report that she is speech-impedingly beautiful. My own experience is that she's something more unusual than that. She's glamorous and charismatic, with the fine features and traffic-stopping hair of a classic Hollywood star, yet she has a curious air of familiarity. This has less to do with her celebrity, I suspect, than a mirroring quality: She can comfortably speak to English people in an English accent and to Americans with an American one. She grew up in both places - moving to London as a 2-year-old, then back to the U.S. at the age of 11 (she spent her adolescence in Michigan) - and she has lived in London for the past 14 years, so both, she says, come naturally.

After the school visit, Anderson was scheduled to go to Belfast to shoot the third season of The Fall, with a stop before that in Toulouse. It wasn't the most obvious route, but she'd agreed to attend that city's comic-book convention - a promise made, she admitted in a whisper, when she thought the event was being held in Paris. Those events are part of her world now, and the recent project that's most mind-boggling to her is an action video game, Squadron 42, due later in 2016, that she filmed with Gary Oldman and Mark Strong.

Anderson got out her phone to show me pictures of herself at work on the game. She was in some sort of hangar, mid-motion capture, wearing what looked to be a rudimentary Halloween costume - Ping-Pong balls stuck to Lycra, a helmet with dangling things that turned out to be tiny cameras. "Here I am, in this ridiculous getup, and the furniture's made of plywood. There are like 45 cameras in the room," she said. "To be in this suit, seriously saying 'Abort mission!' or whatever it is." Anderson crumples into incredulous laughter.

So maybe she finds some sci-fi works easier to take than others, but despite her wide range of roles over the past decade - her ghostly, gorgeous Lady Dedlock in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House in 2005, her cotton-candy Miss Havisham in Great Expectations in 2011, The Fall's clipped and sexy Scotland Yard detective Stella, the wrecked southern belle DuBois - Anderson's being back on The X-Files seems oddly seamless.

Indeed, she's somewhat surprised it's taken this long to happen. Along with Duchovny and X-Files creator Chris Carter, she always thought there could be a third feature film. "I think we realized that we needed to wrap up the story in some way," she suggested. But "we got to a point where that was clearly not going to be possible." Certainly not on TV, since neither actor could imagine going back to 20-plus episodes a year. But once networks began to see that short stacks of series could be a feasible formula, the three of them were ready to try.

"It was on the one hand obviously familiar territory," Anderson said about the mini-series, "and on the other hand it felt like it was a completely foreign land. Things have changed so much since we did itв€”politically. I mean, the climate is such that it makes it possible. The show has always had a political element to it - we often speak about the government being dishonest."

To that end, the new X-Files takes place in an explicitly post-9/11, heavily surveilled America. Dana Scully has retired from the FBI and become a successful surgeon; Mulder, also having departed the agency, appears to be deep into a midlife crisis. She is sleek and competent; he is falling apart. In the first episode, they are reunited, in classically convoluted X-Files fashion, by a powerful right-wing conspiracist who seeks to prove a cover-up of government officials using alien technology to experiment on humans. "You were the X-Files," the conspiracist tells Mulder. "You practically wrote the book." "That book is closed," Mulder replies. "As are the X-Files," adds Scully.

Anderson suggested that this incarnation of The X-Files could not have been made during the Bush years, when "it was not acceptable to speak up" about security-state overreach. Carter concurs, saying that "the mood in the country is different now. When we went off the air in 2002, no one cared to hear about government conspiracies." The X-Files has always been, as Carter puts it, "in defense of freedom," and now it can be political in new ways. "I think it reflects a debate I'm hearing," he says, "about an accumulation of power by banks, corporations, and the elite." In 2016, aliens are surprisingly low on the list of Mulder and Scully's problems.

If you look back at the show's early episodes, it's striking to see how Anderson's presence has now deepened and become even more appealing in the time since. Then, Scully was a dowdy novice, dressed in all those synthetic gray pantsuits and a little soft around the chin, and in retrospect, she and Mulder looked like undergraduates, less likely to be uncovering tangled webs of conspiracy and deceit than asking to share lecture notes with each other.

Anderson laughed when I brought up The X-Files' formative years. "We were so young! What's interesting is that I kind of knew that at the time. I was as inexperienced as Scully was. I didn't feel grown up in my body." Carter also remembers when the series was just taking its baby steps; Anderson auditioned in borrowed clothes that were too big for her. "I'm happy every day that we cast her, but she wasn't necessarily the first choice of people with critical sway. She was very green, but we all were."

Of course, the question we had been unconsciously skirting was the obvious one. To say that Anderson's relationship with Duchovny had been well documented would imply that everything reported about them was true, and given how contradictory it was, that seems unlikely. They were said to be lovers; they were said to hate each other; there was chemistry or there was pure acid. Suffice it to say that a great deal of attention has been paid, over the years, to their pairing. The onscreen-offscreen slippage was, surely, intentional - their frisson fueled the show, and they knew it. In 1996, Anderson and Duchovny appeared locked in an embrace on the cover of Rolling Stone, lying in bed together naked.

"We're probably closer today than we've ever been," Anderson told me. Whatever happens with the new series, The X-Files is a fixture in the pop-culture firmament, and she and Duchovny now understand that, in her words, "it's just the two of us that have had this particular unique experience." In the past, she reflected, "I don't think that was necessarily important enough an element to draw us together." But they both have children, and their friendship has grown. "I think we're old enough to realize," she said, maybe a little coyly, "that there's value in our staying onside and supporting each other."

Ironically, despite having lived with Scully for the better part of 20 years, on returning to The X-Files - the mini-series started filming in Vancouver in June - Anderson struggled with how to play an older, more experienced version of the character. "I had this locked sense of her that is stuck somewhere in those early episodes," she said. "So I had to get out of my head the idea that I didn't seem like her at all, because this was the grown-up version of her." She noticed that her natural speaking pitch was lower now than it had been during the show's initial run. As soon as she modulated her voice up in register for Scully, the character became more familiar. In a pleasant reversal, she now wonders if returning to Scully might hinder her upcoming work in The Fall. "I made such a concerted effort after The X-Files was done to push Scully as far away as possible in order to create characters that didn't resemble her," Anderson said. "It remains to be seen whether I've been able to do that in reverse, and lose Stella for Scully."

She understands, though, that this goes under the category of good problems to have. "I'm in an extraordinary position to keep getting work," she said quietly, then paused for emphasis before adding: "At my age. So I'm taking advantage of that while it's on offer." Someday, when the specter of Scully has become less present than it currently is, she hopes to try her hand at directing and screenwriting. Neither can happen until, she said, acting "slows down." She corrected herself. "If it slows down." But before that day, which given her gifts seems a bit unlikely to come, she has a school, a comics convention, and a murder investigation to get to.

[NikitA]

Scully and Me
by Gillian Anderson
British Vogue: January 2016

Back to investigate the paranormal after a hiatus of 13 years, X-Files star Gillian Anderson talks to Vogue about finding Scully again, and why this time she's better dressed.

In the beginnning, Dana Scully's hair was my natural colour, which is as dull as anything. It was 1993 and I was 24. After we shot the pilot and The X-Files was picked up for series, our executive producer Chris Carter said: "She's going red." And that's how Scully became a redhead. For the next nine years I dyed it on a semi-regular basis, but then the show ended in 2002 I defiantly became a blonde and have been one ever since.

For the 2015 reboot of six episodes, the question naturally came up: to dye or not to dye? My hair was already falling out from playing so many platinums (Stella in The Fall, Bedelia in Hannibal, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire), so "wig" was the answer.

Cut to day two of filming in the heart of downtown Vancouver (taking the role of Washington, DC), smack in the middle of lunch hour. We were drawing crowds, and these days "crowds" means phones, photographs and instant internet activity. A close-up of my hair was immediately posted online: "It's not the right red!" (outrage); "The parting is wrong!" (disgust). Fans, who know more about the show than any of us making it, were spot on - they had been watching Scully right from the show's beginning - and a new wig was made.

The X-Files was almost the first thing I had done as an actor. I had been in theatre in New York and a couple of commercials. In my early twenties I didn't understand the TV industry: about the investment of a network, about what it meant when people talking about whether we would get "picked up". It all flew by me. I told the producers I was 27, and went in to the auditions not expecting anything, not knowing what it would mean to be cast in series, or what series actually were. I didn't even watch television in those days.

I liked Scully though, right from the off. She is very serious: a forensic pathologist and a famous sceptic, she is very authoritative. And a genius. Well, both she and her partner Mulder, played by David Duchovny, are, in that they know the answers to any scientific, historical, geographic or anthropological query that arises.

We made 202 episodes in the end, over nine seasons, and worked long 16-, 17-hour days. David and I were in almost every scene for years - often at night, in the rain, on location. So much of it was shot in the dark, with us lighting ourselves by flashlight, in all kinds of weather, and in the forest. Oh, the forests. When the show finally moved to Los Angeles I can't say we missed them, or the weather, but Vancouver really did set the mood for the show in a fundamental way.

And then there's that undeniable chemistry between the two of them, the two of us, David and me. That was present from our first exchange. That thing that drove fans crazy, regardless of whether David and I were even speaking to each other at any given time. You can't fake that. It's bigger than the two of us, and is there for the service of the series and its fans.

To say people were obsessed with the show was an understatement, and still is. When it began there was nothing else like it on television. The way our show was lit, the production values, the fact there was a woman as intelligent as - and an equal partner to - the man. The X-Files was also the first of what became know as "appointment television", when viewers planned their evenings around it. The X-Files brought people together, saved marriages, got family members to sit still in the same room and scream and laugh and theorise for a whole hour. It became integral to many people's childhoods, teenager-hoods, young adult lives and not-so-young adult lives. There was, and remains, a trajectory of ages that still come up to me wanting to share how it impacted them and how excited they are to share it now with their children. It's a rite of passage.

For me, as an actor, there have been so many other roles since Scully, I naturally assumed I would just be able to jump on that bicycle again. Entirely unexpectedly, it took a while to rediscover her. For instance, I didn't remember that I had always used a higher, slightly more nasal pitch of my voice when playing Scully - probably because I started playing her at such a young age. In fact it took much of the whole of the first episode for me to fully inhabit her again.

Sure, there have been X-Files movies, but when the last season ended it seemed unlikely there would ever be a television series again. Until recently, a new show would have meant making another 24 episodes - something not remotely possible for David or me. So it wasn't until TV networks became more open-minded about shorter series that it even became a possibility. David took the lead and ran with it, but it took me a while to catch up. In other words: over my dead body. But I reconsidered, and it suddenly started to sound as if it might be the only feasible way for us to achieve closure while giving the fans a taste of what they had been clamouring for. Also, I figured it might possibly be quite fun.

One thing that was going to be different this time around, though: Scully's wardrobe. During the original series, I had paid not a lick of attention to her style. I had known that I wanted her to be homely, because I was determined to be a real actress who didn't care about vanity. But little did I realise that my lack of awareness would lead to years of bad hair and polyester suits. To be fair, the show's costume girl was great and was simply pulling outfits from what was on offer in the mid-Nineties: fabrics that I can't even think of without shivers running up my spine; double-breasted suits and shoulder pads as big as a house. Scully's taste got better as the seasons went on, but it wasn't really until the sixth season when we moved down to Los Angeles and a new team came on board, that I was forced to address the issue, head-on. New, hipper clothes and a slicker haircut for Scully. Even a leather coat, here and there.

This time around, after 13 years of creating other characters and realising that I not only have a say in how they appear but that I actually enjoy that part of the process - I have strong opinions about how my characters express themselves through clothes - I worked much more actively with The X-Files wardrobe designer Chris Hargadon to hone Scully's style. I had worked with Chris on Hannibal, in which he got to express his creative genius through Hannibal's fine tailoring. Our squarish FBI agents were perhaps not quite so fun to dress, yet it was essential to precisely define their typical wardrobes. So Scully is still a bit homely but with a taste for fabric and colour, more cotton than silk, no zips as accent, nothing too fitted, no patterns.

So aside from a few stylistic tweaks, what we are giving the audience in this new mini-series is exactly what they got originally. I was nervous that, because the show pushed so many boundaries on its inception, we would need to deliver that again. But it was actually Simon Pegg, the ultimate sci-fi fan, who reassured me: "No, what we want is exactly what you gave us - we want comfort food.". He was proved right when spontaneous cheers of joy rose up at a recent screening in Cannes as that unmistakable X-Files theme tune played over the deliberately chosen original opening credits.

If we didn't know it already by the time we wrapped this latest series, David and I were both profoundly aware of how lucky we have been. How fortunate we are to have played these two characters who have had such an impact on television, defined a genre, found affection with so many people - and lasted for so many years.

[Vera]

Мой перевод статьи:
Gillian Anderson Chases Her Shadow
New York Magazine: December 28, 2015

Джиллиан Андерсон гонится за своей тенью

После того, как она годами строила карьеру после «Секретных материалов», актриса готова вернуться к Дане Скалли.

Джиллиан Андерсон верит в привидения. «Я не видела привидений», - объяснила она в ноябре, когда мы встретились промозглым днем в уютном отеле Лондона. – «Но я очень, гипер чувствительна, и обычно могу сказать, есть в доме привидения или нет». У нее также есть «тенденция верить, что люди способны видеть будущее и читать мысли» и она знает «абсолютно здравомыслящих людей, которые видели полтергейст».
Малдер одобрил бы. А Скалли? Не особо. Конечно, специальный агент ФБР Дана Скалли – эта роль скептической героини «Секретных материалов» сделала Андерсон знаменитой. И она снова сыграет ее, когда сериал вернется на «Фокс» в январе, как шести серийное продолжение. Но Андерсон мыслит не так, как ее персонаж, который дал толчок ее карьере. И вы могли бы сказать, что сама Скалли стала привидением для актрисы – едва заметное, постоянное присутствие, и то, куда ее снова пригласили окунуться с головой.
Андерсон, которой сейчас 47 лет, последний раз играла Скалли во втором полнометражном фильме «Секретные материалы: Я хочу верить» 2008 года (телевизионный сериал закончился в 2002 году). С того момента до сегодняшнего дня она годами жила вне ее.
По большому счету, ей это удалось – телезрители, особенно в Великобритании, вероятно, знают Андерсон (сейчас полностью блондинку, а не рыжую как раньше) как очень британского детектива Стеллу Гибсон из криминальной драмы ВВС «Крах». Театралы могли посмотреть ее в получившем премии спектакле, в роли Бланш Дюбуа в Лондоне, это еще свежо в их памяти (роль, к которой она возвращается будущей весной в бруклинском театре St. Ann’s Warehouse).
Но в связи с шумихой, сопровождающей долгое ожидание возвращения к роли Скалли, легко понять, что Андерсон на самом деле никогда окончательно не теряла своего статуса девушки с рекламного постера о паранормальном.
В отличие от ее коллеги Дэвида Духовны, который во времена показа «Секретных материалов» недовольно давал понять, что ему суждены более великие вещи, Андерсон была женщиной, которой научная фантастика далась легко. Она всегда любила такие фильмы, как «Близкие контакты третьей степени», сейчас она в соавторстве пишет научно-фантастический роман и сама записывает аудиокниги. Как она назвала это, показывая пальцами кавычки, у нее есть «большой авторитет в научной фантастике». Что есть хорошо, с тех пор как мир поп-культуры опирается на один жанр из всех, на который когда-то смотрели с высока. Научная фантастика и фантастика – это «все, что смотрят», - прозаично подчеркнула Андерсон, и результат – это то, что спустя два десятилетия к ней пришел «Дух времени» и к Скалли, также как и она пришла к ним.
Когда Андерсон пришла на встречу в отель, то принесла с собой бриз, ворвавшись в фойе, одетая в черное кожаное пальто. Она быстро заказала кофе и, немного смущаясь, бросила таблетку аспирина из упаковки с фольгой в стакан воды, стоящий передо мной. Я подвинул его к ней, беспокоясь о том, что я из него уже пил. «О, не беспокойтесь об этом», - быстро сказала она, будто жизнь была слишком коротка, чтобы волноваться о микробах или о чем-то еще.
Она встретилась со мной между посещениями будущих школ для ее 9-летнего сына Оскара (у нее есть 21-летняя дочь Пайпер от первого брака, и два маленьких сына, Феликс и Оскар, от ее бывшего мужчины Марка Гриффитса). Она использовала приложение для водителей, которое говорило с ней голосом С-3РО. «Он говорит мне: «Через 250 ярдов поверните налево, капитан»», - сказала она. – «Мне это очень нравится».
Некоторые мужчины, которые встречались с Андерсон, рассказывают, что она красива настолько, что теряешь дар речи. По моему собственному опыту – она более необычная, чем это. Она – эффектная и харизматичная, с тонкими чертами лица и такими волосами классической голливудской звезды, которые останавливают дорожное движение. А еще она забавно дружески себя ведет. Думаю, что ее отражательная способность мало имеет отношение к ее популярности: она может легко говорить с англичанами с британским акцентом, а с американцами – с американским. Она росла в двух местах – переехала в Лондон в возрасте двух лет, затем обратно в США в 11 лет (юность она провела в Мичигане) – а последние 14 лет живет в Лондоне, поэтому она говорит, что оба акцента у нее получаются естественно.
После посещения школы Андерсон нужно было ехать в Белфаст на съемки третьего сезона «Краха», с остановкой перед этим в Тулузе. Это не было самым логичным маршрутом, но она согласилась принять участие в этом комик-коне – «я обещала», призналась она шепотом, когда она думала, что мероприятие будет проходить в Париже. Такие мероприятия – теперь часть ее мира. Недавний проект, который для нее является более умопомрачительным – это видео игра в стиле экшн «Squadron 42», которая выйдет в 2016 году, и которую она сняла с Гари Олдманом и Марком Стронгом. Андерсон вытащила свой телефон, чтобы показать мне свои фотографии во время работы над игрой. Она находилась в каком-то ангаре, снимок в полудвижении, одетая во что-то похожее на недоделанный костюм на Хэллоуин – шарики пин-погла прилипли к лайкре, шлем со свисающими штуками, которые как выяснилось были маленькими камерами. «Вот это я в дурацком прикиде, среди фанерной мебели. Там в комнате около 45 камер», - сказала она. – «И я в этом костюме серьезно говорю: «Прекратить миссию!» или что там было». Андерсон корчится в недоверчивом смехе.
Может быть, для нее одни научно-фантастические работы выполнять легче, чем другие, но несмотря на широкий спектр ее ролей за последнее прошедшее десятилетие – ее призрачная и великолепная Леди Дэдлок в адаптации ВВС «Холодный дом» в 2005 году, ее идеализированная Мисс Хэвишэм в «Больших надеждах» в 2011 году, строгая и сексуальная детектив «Скотланд Ярда» Стелла Гибсон в «Крахе», помешавшаяся южная красавица Дюбуа – возвращение Андерсон к «Секретным материалам» вовсе не кажется логичным. На самом деле, она немного удивлена, что это случилось через такой промежуток времени. Вместе с Дэвидом Духовны и создателем «Секретных материалов» Крисом Картером, она всегда думала, что должен быть третий полнометражный фильм. «Я думаю, мы понимали, что однажды эту историю нужно было как-то завершить», - предположила она. Но «мы находились в такой ситуации, когда это казалось явно невозможным». По крайней мере, не на телевидении, и не тогда, когда актеру придется вернуться к съемкам 20ти с лишним серий в год. Но с того момента, как компания начала задумываться о том, что короткий сезон может стать возможным ответом, то все трое были готовы попробовать.
«С одной стороны это была естественно знакомая территория», - сказала Андерсон о мини-продолжении. – «А с другой стороны, это было совершенно как незнакомая земля. С тех пор, как мы это снимали, очень изменилась политическая обстановка. То есть сейчас такая ситуация, которая делает продолжение возможным. В сериале всегда была политическая составляющая – мы часто говорим о нечестности правительства».
Исходя и этого, действие новых «Секретных материалов» явно происходит после взрыва 11 сентября, в Америке, за которой плотно наблюдают. Дана Скалли закончила службу в ФБР и стала успешным хирургом. Малдер тоже ушел из бюро, и находится в глубокой депрессии человека среднего возраста. Она – изящная и рациональная, он – разваливающийся на части. В первой серии они воссоединяются в классически закрученной манере «Секретных материалов» при помощи влиятельного правого конспиролога, который пытается доказать тайное использование правительством инопланетных технологий в экспериментах на людях. «Вы были «Секретными материалами», - говорит конспиролог Малдеру. – «Вы практически написали книгу». «Эта книга закрыта», - отвечает Малдер. «Как и «Секретные материалы»», - добавляет Скалли.
Андерсон предположила, что это возрождение «Секретных материалов» было невозможным во времена Буша, когда «нельзя было говорить» об обмане на государственном уровне. Картер соглашается, говоря, что «сейчас в стране другое настроение. Когда мы ушли из эфира в 2002 году, никому было не интересно слушать о правительственных заговорах». «Секретные материалы» всегда были, как определяет это Картер, «на защите свободы», и сейчас он может быть политическим по новым направлениям. «Думаю, что он отражает споры, которые я слышу», - говорит он. – «О сосредоточении власти у банков, корпораций и элиты». В 2016 году пришельцы находятся далеко внизу списка проблем Малдера и Скалли.
Если вы обернетесь назад, на ранние серии сериала, то с удивлением заметите, насколько образ Андерсон сейчас глубже и более соответствует времени. Тогда Скалли было новичком в моде, одетая во все эти синтетические серые брючные костюмы и была совсем неопытной. Оглядываясь назад, она и Малдер выглядят как выпускники, менее способные распутывать запутанные сети конспирации и обмана, чем просить поделиться записями лекций друг с другом.
Андерсон засмеялась, когда я заговорил о годах становления «Секретных материалов». «Мы были так молоды! Но интересно то, что я поняла это со временем. Я была такой же неопытной, как Скалли. Я не чувствовала себя физически взрослой». Картер также помнит, когда сериал только делал свои первые шаги. Андерсон пришла на прослушивание в одежде, взятой на прокат, которая была ей слишком велика. «Я каждый день радуюсь, что мы выбрали ее, но она не была именно выбором людей из компании. Она была слишком зеленой, но мы все такими были».
Конечно, логично стоял вопрос, который мы несознательно обходили. Сказать, что отношения между Андерсон и Духовны были хорошо задокументированы – это дать понять, что все, что было написано о них – было правдой. И принимая во внимание, насколько все было противоречиво, что это кажется маловероятным. Их называли любовниками, говорили, что они ненавидят друг друга, что между ними химия или явная язвительность. Достаточно сказать, что в те годы очень большое внимание уделялось их паре. Волнения на экране и вне его, естественно, были международными – их волнения было двигателем сериала, и они знали это. В 1996 году Андерсон и Духовны появились вместе на обложке «Роллинг Стоунс», лежа вместе в постели обнаженными.
«Наверно, мы сегодня ближе, чем когда-либо», - сказала мне Андерсон. Что бы ни случилось с новым сезоном, «Секретные материалы» - это неотъемлемая часть поп-культурного небосвода, и она и Духовны сейчас понимают то, что по ее словам «для нас двоих это было чем-то особенным». В прошлом, она размышляла: «Я не думаю, что было настолько необходимо свести нас вместе». Но у них обоих есть дети, их дружба повзрослела. «Я думаю, мы – достаточно взрослые, чтобы понять», - сказала она, может быть немного робко, «что наша дружба и поддержка друг друга – ценны».
По иронии, несмотря на то, что прожив со Скалли больше 20 лет, в возвращении к «Секретным материалам» - короткий новый сезон которого начали снимать в Ванкувере в июне – Андерсон боролась с тем, как сыграть ее героиню повзрослевшую и более опытную. «У меня было стойкое чувство того, что она такая же, как в ранних сериях», - сказала она. - «Поэтому мне пришлось выбросить из головы мысль о том, что я совсем не похожа на нее, потому что это была ее повзрослевшая версия». Она заметила, что ее обычный тон речи сейчас стал ниже, чем когда сериал начинался. Как только она изменила голос, чтобы говорить, как Скалли, то все стало более привычным. Сейчас ей интересно, может ли ее возвращение к Скалли помешать ее будущей работе в «Крахе». «После «Секретных материалов» я проделала тяжелую работу, чтобы отодвинуть Скалли настолько далеко, насколько это возможно, чтобы создать новые персонажи непохожие на нее», - сказала Андерсон. – «Остается посмотреть, смогу ли я сделать это наоборот – и потерять Стеллу ради Скалли».
Хотя она и понимает, что это создаст ряд больших проблем. «Я нахожусь в невероятном положении, чтобы продолжить работать», - сказала она спокойно, затем сделала паузу, чтобы выделить сказанное, и добавила: «В моем возрасте. Поэтому я извлекаю выгоду, пока это есть». Однажды, когда призрак Скалли станем менее явным, чем сейчас, она надеется попробовать себя в режиссировании и написании сценариев. Но ничего произойдет пока, как она сказала, актерство не «притормозится». Она поправила себя: «ЕСЛИ это притормозится». А до того дня, у нее есть немного другие заботы – у нее есть школа, комик-коны, и будущее расследование убийства.

*Эта статья появится 28 декабря 2015 г. в New York Magazine.

[Белая Тигрица]

Спасибо, Vera.

[NikitA]

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New Beauty Magazine



Gillian Anderson Sounds Off on Aging in Hollywood

By Elise Minton, Executive Beauty Editor | Photography By Ruven Afanador | June 27, 2016



Award-winning actress Gillian Anderson (she has an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG award under her belt) has never looked better, almost as if she’s cracked the scientific code to aging perfectly. At 47, the star of the cult-classic series The X-Files, A&E’s mini-series War and Peace, the Netflix drama The Fall and A Streetcar Named Desire off Broadway, is happy in her skin and it shows.

Gillian, who has had the privilege of being born in Chicago and raised in London (where she currently resides) and then Michigan, says that there’s absolutely a difference between how women in America and London view beauty and aging. “I tend to observe women in the UK approaching it less obsessively, than, say in Los Angeles,” she says. “There seems to be less of a preoccupation with it and more of an acceptance of the natural face and the natural aging process. I think in Europe, in general, there’s a sense that women who age naturally can be beautiful, whereas I’m not so sure that’s the perception in America, specifically in Los Angeles. I think that it’s seen as a flaw somehow, like wrinkles are a flaw,” she says.

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Whether women in the States see wrinkles as imperfections or not, for the most part, they’re on a marathon race to eradicate them in their entirety. But Gillian doesn’t necessarily think of the procedures and treatments that have become the norm to deal with wrinkles and other signs of aging as taboo. “They’ve become so commonplace. I think that it comes down to the choice that a woman wants to make about how she chooses to age, whatever that choice is. In our society, women are shamed if they do anything and shamed if they don’t. I don’t think it should be the place of anybody—specifically the tabloids—to draw them out and shame them for their decisions.”

She speaks from experience to a degree. This past February, the tabloids put the spotlight on her for speculated cosmetic work that was done. Gillian fired back to set the record straight, responding with the hashtag #agingwithoutshame on social media. “I don’t know if it’s that I really fight back so much or that I just adhere to my sense of what works for me. I guess I’ve been quite outspoken over the years about the importance of accepting yourself exactly how you are and not trying to follow what anyone else says,” she says.

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Not every woman can relate—although plenty do—to the theory that Gillian subscribes to: accepting who you are and just going with it. Even with the advent of the latest and greatest procedures and treatments that women have at their disposal, Gillian hopes, over time, that there will be even more ways for women to care for their naturally aging skin with vitamins and substances. “There will always be the desire, as women see themselves getting older, to stop the process. Ultimately, it comes down to embracing that process and embracing one’s self at the age that one is, which is hard,” she says. “I’m sure I’ll find myself along the way in some situations saying, ‘Do I, should I, would I?’”