Gillian Anderson has said she found her pin-up fame while working on The X-Files in the Nineties , and the sexy photoshoots she took part in at the time, “preposterous”. The British-American actor, who has drawn acclaim for roles in Sex Education and The Crown in recent years, was catapulted into fame in 1993 as FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files . And it also brought attention of a different sort, namely in the form of lads’ mags.
In a new interview, Anderson recalled the major differences between her actual life and the image she portrayed in magazines and photoshoots. “It felt so preposterous to me,” she told The Guardian . “If you saw my life and where I am half the time, between work and set and kids and driving and drop-offs and pick-ups and all that sort of stuff – the fact that you’d end up with those pictures is just so .
.. ” Anderson gave birth to her first child, Piper, during the second season of The X-Files , and spent the rest of the series as a working mum.
“[Those shoots were] just part of the fantasy. It doesn’t feel like it represents me at all.” Anderson will soon release a book collection of anonymous letters titled Want , comprised of sexual fantasies submitted by women from around the globe.
In the book, for which Anderson contributes her own anonymous fantasy as well as stories from her life and career, she writes about the oddness she experienced as a Nineties star. “I had a surreal experience in 1996 when I was voted world�.