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Gillian Anderson Teases Conversation With Ryan Coogler About ‘X-Files’ Reboot: “If Anyone Were To Do It, I Think You Are The Perfect Person”


Gillian Anderson is teasing a conversation he had with director Ryan Coogler about the X-Files reboot he is developing.

Gillian Anderson and Ryan CooglerITV / Tim P. Whitby / Getty Images In a new interview, the star of the Fox series who played Agent Dana Scully gave insight into her conversation with Coogler. “I spoke to him, and what I said was, ‘If anyone were to do it, I think you are the perfect person and best of luck, call me,’” Anderson said on ITV1’s This Morning while promoting her latest film The Salt Path. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really f—ing scary,” he teased, adding: “We’re gonna try to make something really great, bro, and really be something for the real X Files fans, and maybe find some new ones.”

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