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Gillian Anderson says it took her 5 years after The X-Files ended to get what the fuss was about

Gillian Anderson needed distance from 'The X-Files' to see how 'really cool' the show actually was: 'I suddenly got what they were talking about, like, five years after the show ended.'

You don't," she said on a recent episode of the Smartless podcast, which is hosted by fellow actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes. For most of it, she played Dana Scully, an FBI agent partnered with David Duchovny's Fox Mulder, to investigate unexplained cases, on 15-time Emmy-winning series. Outside of playing Scully, Anderson has appeared in roles such as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on The Crown in 2020, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the 2022 Showtime series The First Lady, and as sex therapist Jean Milburn on Netflix's Sex Education(2019-2023) series.

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