I am Jillian Anderson and this is the wired autocomplete interview. That's pretty cool. What age was Jillian Anderson in The X Files?
Well, when I was first cast, I was 24 years old. I lied. I told them I was 27 because I didn't think they would hire me if I was 24.
Not least because the character that I played, Dana Skully, was already a doctor and an FBI agent. Yeah, you can't be those things when you're 24. What is Jillian Anderson working on now?
I'm doing a Netflix western called Abandons, written by Curt Sutter. Going to be riding a horse and shooting a pistol, and that's all that matters. What does my tattoo say?
Which one? This is a tattoo which is in Sanskrit and it's one of the eight limbs of yoga which is about right mind and right action. What did Jillian Anderson wear to the Golden Globes?
I wore a dress covered in vaginas. Gabriella Hurst who is a designer and a friend of mine made the dress and it was handcrafted by many very talented women. And I think each panel had Oh, I'm forgetting now.
Each There were a lot of vaginas. That's basically all I have to say. A lot of vaginas.
Jillian Anderson books. I have a book coming out in September called Want that Bloomsbury is putting out and it is a collection of women's sexual fantasies. There was a book in the 70s called My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday and she put a call out to women asking them to submit their fantasies anonymously.
I did the same thing last year and a lot of women uh wrote in about 800 completed letters and we have chosen 174 of them for the book. Jillian Anderson characters voice of God. What does this mean?
What's one character that you had wrestled with the most? Blanch Dubois um from Street Car Named Desire in London and New York and she goes mad by the end of the play and going mad eight times a week for two three months at a time can take it out of a girl. But I loved it.
She still lives inside me somewhere. Juliet Anderson. Princess Maninoi is an animation film by Miyazaki who's a Japanese animator and he is a legend and um I have always been a fan of his films and particularly my daughter who's uh 29.
grew up on his films. And at one point they asked me if I would play Morrow, uh, a goddess who is in the shape of a wolf. And so I do the voice over for the English version of Princess Moninoi.
Fun fact, the original voice was quite deep. And so while I was doing it, I was trying to get my voice to be that deep for uh, the She Wolf. and uh never quite got there.
Jillian Anderson knows how to make a fashion statement. I think what's being referred to is the thong for the Vanity Fair party. Maybe there was a jersey dress that I was going to wear.
It was very low cut in the back and so I couldn't wear underwear with it, but then um my pubic hair stuck out in the front at that time. Didn't really want to, you know, shave it all off. And so I put on my g-string and went to the Vanity Fair party with the low cut dress with a g-string showing and it got some attention.
But you know, girls got to do what a girl's got to do. Jillian Anderson Scoop. It's a Netflix film where I play Emily Mateless who interviewed Prince Andrew in the infamous Emily Mateless and Prince Andrew interview.
I said yes to this role because um I like a challenge and she's a pretty cool character and the script was really really really good. Jillian Anderson OBbe I have one of these. Order of the British Empire.
When you're not a British citizen, you get an honorary one. Therefore, the Queen or one of the other royals doesn't actually present it to you like they do if you're actually British. It's a medal and a title and it's an honor is what it is.
Where does Jillian Anderson live? I live in London, England. I have lived there for 22 years.
I grew up there. I was not born there. I was born in Chicago.
London has a lot of green spaces. You wouldn't guess that from such a massive metropolitan city, but it is incredibly green. There are a lot of garden squares and a lot of trees and very cool architecture and I love it.
It's it's my favorite city. Jillian Anderson, Sex Education Style. So, in Sex Education, I played a character called Jean Milbour who was a uh a sex therapist and she had a very cool sense of style and one of those things that she wore on a regular basis were jumpsuits.
She can rock a jumpsuit. I can't rock a jumpsuit, but Gene Milbour can rock a jumpsuit. Who is Jillian Anderson in the crown?
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was a prime minister for uh about 10 years in the United Kingdom. Margaret Thatcher is actually quite fascinating. She comes from a little town up north in the UK called Grandanthm and her dad was an alderman and they had a shop and they lived above the shop and they were very religious.
they were Methodists and she could have probably run the country when she was about seven years old, I think, based on the way her brain worked, um, how her thinking was already and having already observed and experienced her father making speeches as an alderman. All of those facts of her childhood added entirely to the person that she then became. Who is Jillian Anderson in American Gods?
Well, I'm a few people. The Goddess Media and I show up as Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie and Lucille Ball and one other Judy Garland. That's right.
I show up as those uh four four people. That was a lot of fun. Jillian Anderson and David Dovnney.
I don't know. Who's David Davney? Oh, yeah.
Um, no, I'm joking. Of course, I know who David is. David Davney played Fox Moulder.
I played Dana Scully, a series called The X-Files, for about 6,000 years. One of the coolest guys on television for for uh a long time. People have always been interested in in David DVY and Jillian Anderson uh getting together personally, privately, intimately, as they were interested in uh Moulder and Scully getting together intimately.
and uh not going to happen. When did Jillian Anderson leave the XFiles? I think it was in 2002.
And why do I remember that date? Because, as I said, I've been doing it for 6,000 years. Is Julian Anderson a redhead?
I am not a red head. Scully was a red head. Does Jillian Anderson have children?
I do. I have three children, 15, 17, and 29. and they are the loves of my life.
Julian Anderson awards. I guess recently winning for Thatcher and the Crown. I think many years ago I won awards for the X-files and I think I was so young and overwhelmed and recently when I won for the crown after being in the industry and you know for so many decades in between it made it that much more of an honor and meaningful and so I was incredibly grateful and happy and I smiled and God was good and life was Good.
Thank you very much for having me. That's me. Over and out.
