“The way we were directed by the studios, I was to walk behind him, never side by side. I mean, that is fucking priceless when I think about it now. When we would get out the car and walk towards the house I would have to be behind him, even though I had equal dialogue.”
“I can only imagine that at the beginning, they wanted me to be the sidekick,” she said. “Or that, somehow, maybe it was enough of a change just to see a woman having this kind of intellectual repartee with a man on camera, and surely the audience couldn’t deal with actually seeing them walk side by side!”
“I don’t know how long it lasted or if it changed because I eventually said, ‘Fuck no! No!’ I don’t remember somebody saying, ‘Okay, now you get to walk alongside him.’ But I imagine it had more to do with my intolerance and spunk than it being an allowance that was made.”
— Gillian Anderson.
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1x18. “Shapes” - X-Files Rewatch
Mulder and Scully share a look when the rancher says: “Don’t you ever just get the creeps?”
Umbrella gazing
“Running Fox or Sneaky Fox” - how about Sexy Fox?
Side note: Scully’s hair is super-floof in this episode and I love it.
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can we just appreciate pilot mulder here for a moment.
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