Gillian Anderson Instagram – Gillian Anderson glides between worlds. Or, more accurately, glides between countries. The star of Netflix’s based-on-a-true-story “Scoop,” the TV movie about the bombshell BBC interview with Prince Andrew, is American-born, in part British-raised, and now lives in Britain full-time. And she moves between cultures, accents and perspectives like a chameleon.
Perfect training for an actor with two Emmy Awards who is still often identified by one of her earliest roles: Dana Scully on “The X-Files.” But it’s as if she senses where her true identity lies and she has an answer: a very particular North London vegetation.
“Hedgerows are the smell of my childhood,” says Anderson, who was born in Chicago, lived in the U.K. as a child in the 1970s, then relocated with her family to Michigan for her adolescence. “We would walk past them and the height of my head was always the height of the hedgerows. It’s such a quintessentially English smell. If my soul had a smell, it would be a hedgerow.”
Despite her stiletto heels, she’s smaller than you might expect — until you remember she’s the inspiration for the portable, resizable “Scully Box,” created during her “X-Files” days so she could better approach her 6-foot-tall co-star David Duchovny. But the real reason her smallness comes as a surprise is the way Anderson fills a room when she’s in it. With or without heels, she dominates her roles with a contained stillness that simultaneously crackles with hyper-aware presence.
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Correction: Sam McAlister is an executive producer on “Scoop,” the real-life journalist who secured the all-important interview, and is portrayed by Billie Piper. Anderson plays journalist Emily Maitlis.
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