Anderson: Reprising Scully character was ’odd’
Anderson: Reprising Scully character was ’odd’
NEW YORK (AP) — Gillian Anderson says getting back into Dana Scully’s character for “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” was harder than she expected.
“It was a little odd,” Anderson told Newsweek for its July 21 issue. “It was more disconcerting than I anticipated. I expected it to be a breeze. But I tried so hard since the series ended to do things as different as possible from the character.
“When I was faced with making acting decisions on that character again, my brain started backfiring and internally combusting,” she said.
Anderson, who is pregnant with her third child, said she has also been spending time buying and selling houses in London, California, Canada and elsewhere.
“I like doing up houses and getting into the architecture,” she told the magazine.
“The X-Files” ran from 1993-2002 on the Fox network. Anderson reunites with co-star David Duchovny for “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” the second feature film spun off from the paranormal series.
The movie will be in theaters Friday.
Today’s birthdays
July 21: Singer Kay Starr is 86. Actor Paul Burke (“Dynasty,” “Naked City”) is 82. Movie director Norman Jewison is 82. Actress Patricia Elliott (“One Life To Live”) is 66. Actor Edward Herrmann (“Gilmore Girls”) is 65. Actor Leigh Lawson (“Tess”) is 63. Singer Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) is 60. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (“Doonesbury”) is 60. Comedian-actor Robin Williams is 57. Singer-guitarist Eric Bazilian of The Hooters is 55. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 51. Actor Lance Guest (“Lou Grant”) is 48. Singer Emerson Hart (Tonic) is 39. Country singer Paul Brandt is 36. Actor Josh Hartnett is 30. Reggae singer Damian Marley is 30. “American Idol” runner-up Blake Lewis is 27. Actress Vanessa Lengies (“Stick It,” “American Dreams”) is 23.