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Gillian Anderson Explains Why She Won’t Be Playing Dana Scully Anymore
She’s done after this year’s Season 11. And she means it.
As you’ve surely already read on this and/or any number of entertainment sites, Gillian Anderson has been firmly declaring that she’s done with “The X-Files” after the now-airing eleventh season, which puts the future of the series in serious jeopardy. After all, creator Chris Carter recently noted that if Anderson is out, he’s probably out too.
At the Television Critics Association winter press tour this week, TV Line tells us, Anderson was of course asked about her decision, and she elaborated on just that.
“There are lots of things that I want to do in my life and career. It’s been an extraordinary opportunity. I’m extremely grateful,” said Anderson. “[But] I don’t want to be tied down to doing one thing for months and months… I like to be challenged as an actor. That’s why I got into this business. And it’s time for me to hang up Scully’s hat.”
She added, “This is it for me — I’m really serious.”
Anderson further explained…
“I arrived at the decision before we did the previous six [episodes], but I was really curious. I felt that the previous six was going to be it. It was dipping our toe back in again … and getting to play these wonderful characters again. I think as [series creator] Chris [Carter] has said himself, that short stack of episodes felt like we were learning how to walk again and that this season of 10 feels like the pace is up and we’re running. I wouldn’t necessarily have been happy if those six were how we said goodbye.”
Does this mean Season 11 is the official end for “The X-Files”? Sure seems like it.
Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.
Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.
Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.
“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…
“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.
We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.
“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.
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