Anderson Fights Scully Typecasting
July 2 -- While Gillian Anderson will be back for another season of The X-Files, the redheaded actress tells The London Sunday Times that she's anxious to "prove [her]self" in other roles
To that end, the actress is bound for London's West End to appear in an unspecified play, she tells the British paper. She declined to say more about the project except to say that the role will be "as far from Scully as humanly possible."
Anderson, who has expressed her discontent with the tedium of playing the ultra-serious FBI agent year in and year out on the Fox show, says that she's now so identified with her TV character that she has to audition for roles to overcome the "narrow thinking" of casting directors. "I hope I will be able to act my way out of [being typecast]," she says.
Anderson signed on for an additional ninth year of The X-Files after her original contract expired, but she says, as she has before, that next season will be her last.
David Duchovny, who exited The X-Files at the end of the 2000-2001 season, said that he will not be back even to do cameos since "it wouldn't be fair to me or the fans."
As for his decision to leave after eight years, Duchovny says his co-star never tried to convince him to stay: "She's going through the same thing. We've been talking about it," Duchovny told Mr. Showbiz.
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