Gillian Anderson: I was forced to stay with the X Files
Gillian Anderson has said she didn’t enjoy her role in The X-Files and only stayed with the show for nine years because she had signed a contract.
She told Stella magazine recently: “I couldn’t get out of it. I didn’t have a choice. I had to sign a contract for five-and-a-half-years before I even went to my first audition - when I didn’t know if I’d got the part. Back then I was all innocent and I thought, ‘Wow that sounds wonderful.’
“But then, when I started, I realised I’d be in a Canadian wood working 16 hours a day for nine months a year. And the reason I stayed so long was because the only way I could get more money was to commit myself to doing it for another couple of years.”
She added that she found her sudden fame hard to deal with: “When I started on The X Files I had no idea what it would involve. When fans used to ask, as they always did, ‘Do you believe in aliens?’ I literally had no idea what to say. I used to go, ‘Um… could you repeat the question?’ I found the whole process incredibly traumatic.”













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# unFame.com on July 19th, 2007 at 7:36 am
hi, great site thanks for having me
prelude: as a published photo journalist and filmmaker, and living in la …well, corp hollywood is no secret here—though it tries to be—nor is the anderson story …though some deep journalistic investigation works had to be employed. anderson is a smart little thing …she has been leaving breadcrumbs all over the place since 2002, for those who know what to look for.
Q and A
* hollywood didn’t ‘get’ Gillian Anderson: not true …they knew what they had $$$. thing is they couldn’t control her and she refused to be peg-holed or abused (see her past rebel history against the unfair ways of the “man”).
* sinister at work: not really, well I guess if you call the daily routine of how corp, big business does business. Yes I would call it devious, just as much as in any other industry. it’s just a bit more hardball, sly and there’s much more temptations to fool, and lure in unsuspecting young naive artist’s—which anderson admits to publicly.
* NOT lost her looks: she’s a natural; with beautiful female imperfections (that only a vain person would notice at all) that work together in a great package. some kind of inner beauty, which can’t be hidden shows through the lens. it’s obvious she accepts aging, therefore it accepts her, well. at any age she is the type that will shine so bright that the imperfections are not seen ..the whole package just works. she has shown to be the type that doesn’t think she is attractive but doesn’t sweat it …perhaps that is her beauty secret …humility. She’s casual about it ..a real 2010 kind of look about her (off screen). it seems she is taking more interest lately in her style and appearance as to what is fashionable and cool—she admits to her now and then lazy fashion blunders, however.
* ‘You’ll never work in this Town again!: she has a contract out on her that is as real as any mafia hit …a black-ball contract which extents strongly in the UK and all US independent films (indi my a*s) …anyone who hires her without the approval of corp Hollywood will receive her same fate! she is one of many however, but she’s the top of their list! hers is a bit different in that she became very popular|powerful, and she flat out quite them at a time which cost them millions if not billions, and the timing of what was and still is going on here in Hollywood …with the new hollywood coming on strong and all. to much to state here as to why hers is a unique story …to include (ramble, ramble) she is smart and insured that what happened in 2002 was document (see labor laws for working mothers) and now becoming more public …smart little whip that anderson …cost her though—big time …what doesn’t kill ya makes you stronger! sometimes she has more guts than brains because, as most artists, they can let their heart rule and not their great iq s …this journalist would have invested in a legal team that would scare the hell out of G before taking on a billion dollar corp like hollywood …yet I’m confident she knows that now and seems to be making all the caution, stealth moves …quite impressive actually.
* talented actor: after what this woman has been through that is an understatement of gigantic puportions. most would not have gotten up from it, ever!!! …most don’t. her works prove that she is most believable in any role she renders …and while dealing with the 2002 ptsd which she still endures today …and with projects that are so beneath her abilities. knowing this industry as I do please note that some of …most likely any projects she was in (rubbing it in her face side-line roles) done by, or influenced by the big-6, she had no choice but to humble herself in doing …but she kicked a*s and did her best regardless (courage, guts can’t begin to explain this person’s complex makeup). corp is much like the military with an exit, declassification contract in writing and verbal (or threat). corp hollywood can still do her much harm. the 2002 thing is still very much apart of her life which makes the other artists|actors cower in their boots …believe it! …and that is just how corp hollywood likes it. the old Hollywood regime is on the outs however …thank G.
* selfish reasons-xfiles2: the 1st years of motherhood are precious and essential for bonding and corp hollywood stole that from anderson (documented, see contract). anderson is too intelligent, capable and good enough to get involved with corp hollywood again for any reason. if she does x-files2 you can bet she didn’t or couldn’t invest enough in a legal team powerful enough or courageous enough to face off with a billion dollar corp. i’m selfish and want to see her in it but not at that expense to her or any other person. i hate bullies!!! …especially in the arts!!! i say free skully! …i say down with x-files! …i say let anderson work again! with a great project we’ll all forget skully and the x-files quicker than an old lady goin down with a bad hip. SHE IS SO MUCH MORE, talent wise. no one has seen what she can do, yet.
* ‘bully attack’: bridges, douglas, paltrow and the other old school, old money hollywood clan can tell you all about the “black-ball, scare and slander” management style of old hollywood …1st off, know that they rule just like the military ..you buck them, don’t follow orders …you will be dealt with on the highest level of harshness till death! if they say you will do this movie or whatever, you will or else. at the time—in that decade–anderson was an off the streets young naïve artist with guts, brains, integrity, honesty (in hollywood, unheard of) and beauty with a lot of fight …she fell to realize that one doesn’t take on pure money-worshiping billion $ entities, you will surely loose! this doesn’t mean she is out. unknown to her because she is a true artist, not a politician, …all here in hollywood are waiting for just what and how she will be in this …her story is one that happened to land right in the middle of a war struggle in hollywoood not seen since corp was brought up on charges the last time for monopolies in the arts decades ago, which they have recaptured again just about the time of her arrival. i doubt Anderson really knows that what happened to her had nothing to do with her …she was just a pawn in this bigger picture. she’s figuring it out, it seems, just by the moves she’s making. too much to state here but in closing; mixing business with the arts is a tricky thing …much like mixing oil and water …corp hollywood is just being what they are …you can’t truly hate a bear or a shark for being a predator can you? moreover, there are some very non-corp, extremely talented artists rulers in hollywood but they don’t control things. old Hollywood is done any way. rumor is that that are bust, totally bankrupt …the new hollywood is completely unaffiliated with old hollywood and has simply gone around them (see internet hollywood). that’s where anderson will slip in, count on it. she’s not the type, at least from my research, one who fears at the thought of a good fight or that will ever give up, till death. she’s a scraper …believe it. i’m confident once the legal aspects of her story are smothered in time we will have many movies about her story ..same as marilyn and the like.
-* David: won’t hold it against him but from my research he is a part of her current “black-ball” fate …a no guts wonder, though smart enough to know she was biting off more than she could chew and would take him down with her . in short he abandoned her in her fight against corp for unfair labor practices (hollywood can be a real 3rd world sweatshop, for real). i can’t respect a person who completely abandons a young working mother over G given rights like that of motherhood. in his acts he didn’t fair much better than her, he fell to realize …you make a bargain with a bully and you’ll loose. no one will touch him either because of what he knows about the labor practices involving anderson (see their once intimate relationship). he abandoned her to save his own skin but what he got in return was the same fate she got. they still hate each other …well maybe not hate …blame each other if you will. it’s a sad thing all around. hope they grow from it. i like his works a lot …not his principles. i would not choose him for a friend.
* PS: unFame is one of the new hollywood web sites supporting the arts. they have a special feature posted …an essay “The Back Rooms of Hollywood” it gives detailed info of the real hollywood (it’s quite accurate) and its bully tactics and use anderson as the catalyst for the essay ..at least i think it’s her …they don’t say for sure.
see, unFame.com
thanks again for having me, all the best. writing by a “ghost writer”
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# vishitor on August 20th, 2007 at 9:02 am
unFame says: implies Gillian Anderson helps break US iron cutain, Hollywood (a decade ahead of her time)
Her faded name and favor still holds fast in the hearts of millions, as real, free, headstrong,
most beloved, beautiful, and sometimes quirky and/or rambunctious. It’s clear that the butt-nuggets at the headquarters in Hollywood felt that the risks were acceptable, when deciding to make her an example, to any who may follow in her path. She had had it with corp Hollywood’s abuse. Her untold story runs congruent with this generation’s voice. She is one of the first to say “F**k Hollywood”. A decade ahead of her time, and she still continues speaking to the hearts of this generation …Hollywood is over. The US iron curtain media monopoly is being broken via the new Internet arts|media. Back in 2002, it had just begun to take hold.
She was made to be the example for any who dare interfere with a TV series project of high
ratings, regardless of corp’s ruthless, fascist like labor practices via their notoriously unfair and inhuman lifelong contracts. Even a young working mom with a newborn is fair game.
It’s ironic because her Hollywood dilemma is indeed a prime example. It focuses on the
awful abandonment that she and her peers have had to continually stomach via corp
Hollywood’s mandatory prerequisites for decades. Those prerequisites, in the least, consists
of contracts that have no human variables therein, and that are impossible to fulfill unless one is a machine. Her no-win predicament that transpired, about five years ago, is this generation’s catalyst. It emphasises corp’s unscrupulous, underground labor and business operations. These are only indicators of the hush-hush monopoly embodied with Hollywood. Who will protest. Who would brave the whistle-blowing position while employed by society’s public enemy number one and most worthy opponent,
Nazi-Hollywood. She would …She did …She does.
Her strong, intelligent and capable onscreen female persona, it seems, wasn’t all act but
bones as well ! No doubt this is why she was so popular, especially with women …women who have had enough of corp Hollywood’s twisted projection of women …only good as
whores, or corp types smart enough to stay employed by “Mister”, or bimbos. Corporate
Hollywood obviously can’t picture a female in a role that depticts them as interesting, a good
person, intelligent, capable, and attractive.
Her ill-fated situation is a verifying magnifier. It specifically isolates indicators of big
corporations’ meticulous and methodical (marketing-disguised) coup and questionable
(some might say cruel) business practices, perpetrated by corp’s appointed money-
hungry department heads, their aligned subsidiaries and their silent allied consortiums.
It could be argued that she shouldn’t have agreed to such a contract. Yet, she was a young starving artist at the time and of course corp knew that. She also could have
considered her contract prior to deciding to have a child but the human factor always rules over contracts. Regardless, this promising actor was robbed, while under contract, of young motherhood with her only small child. She was forced to work 17hr days, five and a half work day weeks for nine months straight, ten years in a row. Of course this
helped corp cut their costs in doing business. They could have hired more people and invested more into their production budget in order to provide fair and humane work scenarios for their employees.
It’s this type of decision making that dictates her integrity …totally awesome. By choosing new motherhood, she was forced to accept the fact that corp would potentially ruin her
rep and mercilessly destroy her career. Yet, her history is testimony to her convictions
against the too often taxing and established bullying, and ‘bone-agit ‘ ways of the
powerful. Hollywood’s iron-curtain arts|media monopoly is in serious violation of the people’s freedom of speech, and currently they are losing power, quick.
As a first time, young working mom, she said no more and resigned for the sake of her only small child…and at great risk to her career. Immediately, the ’scare & slander’ and
‘blacklist’ tactics began against her. Corp’s unspoken policy, as most can easily imagine, is that nobody says no and/or quits Hollywood. Nobody. They quit you! She was never considered for any notable big name projects worthy of her hard earned decade of accomplishments thereafter.
Her reputation as a talented actor with a terrific work ethic …miraculously turned into a corroded piece of c**p upon her resignation from a T.V. series during high Nelson ratings. We’ve seen this crooked template befall any actors|artists that piss off corp Hollywood as
something less than omnipotent. It didn’t matter to corp that, due to her contract, she had no time for her first new born child during the precious primary years. So, parental responsibility superceded corp’s retailing a trifle more nickels. So what.
The (cleverly difficult to prove) corp. ‘celeb-biz’ sponsored gossip columns, which attack
ones character via skewed truths and innuendo, is a diseased bat which preys in the darkest of hours. It’s too easy to leak any rumor, factual or not, in any format, intensity,
whenever and to whomever. And it’s common knowledge that corp Hollywood is the
media. Therefore it’s not difficult to visualize a corp dept-head cowering behind the phone calls and fax-emails of their subsidiaries and their silent ‘partners in greed’ in this.
The ’scare and slander’ tactic is a vampire with a velvet touch. As many of her peers before her, that have said no to corp Hollywood, she has slipped into relative obscurity. Like others, she understandably has since left our U.S. and moved to the UK.
“The Art’s Martyr” is one more Hollywood artist whose promising career, home and family, and personal life, has been marred by the fall out of the Hollywood corp machine. For nearly one whole generation, the US arts and our artists, and the US freedom of speech have been exploited behind an iron curtain media monopoly for the sole purpose of greed and power …engorging billion-dollar, corporate heads,corporations and their consortiums. Our society seriously needs our promising artists. They’re not throw-away items, especially young working moms with small children. This is the U.S. isn’t it? …or is it? …outrageous and a very sad state of affairs indeed. Thank fate which stepped in with new technology to save us from our own placated minds and actions. And, thank “jane doe” for her horrific sacrifices in refusing to support
tyranny in order to save her own skin. It is in these, that standards are set in bravery and self-integrity for society, be it convenient or inconvenient. It is from such documented events, as hers, that make it possible for society to find the truth and point the finger at such deviously plotting entities that would make a fortune at the expense
…the demise, of mother and child, …and, whole populations. Old, dying corp Hollywood’s symbol of power over the people …it’s name on that mountain side will
come down soon enough.
nest wishes vishitor
thanks for having fametastis
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# vishitor on August 29th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
hi everybody X-File fans,
I wonder if they will make xfiles2. I wonder if she wants to do the movie. I found this at another site unFame. I thought everybody might like it, it seems like a real life X-File!?
GA –stop- use utf-8 code all messages –stop- X-files 2 coup hollywood begun –stop- greenlight hollywood takeover a go
–stop- said US|UK actors on board –stop- new brass on board all –stop- all bank collectors against hollywood on board –stop- all players on board
–stop- initial phase one X-Files2 coup hollywood successful complete –stop- expect old hollywood coming your way soon
–stop- hide advised –stop- but stay normal routine adjust times places advised –stop- no statements current any advised –stop- no nothing hollywood takeover advised –stop- if reporters public ask have script advised –stop- if cornered on xfiles2 wish them well brief advised
–stop- any current contracts stand down advised –stop- all polls suggest your rise soon
-stop- new ghost consortium’s unFame ordered leak all now
–stop- all here say good job well done –stop- remain same same –stop- good luck –stop-
best wishes
thanks for having me
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# vishitor on September 4th, 2007 at 5:43 am
-The Art’s Martyr
Inadvertently Leads
US and Global
It is acknowledged US iron curtain collapsed unofficially in ‘X-Files2 coup Hollywood’ Sept 3, 2007. -
“just the tip”
unFame leaks all now: LA, CA., sources it is strongly speculated that;
Gillian Anderson inadvertently started something in the US -2002- that cannot be stopped. Alone, with child, stood up against a 90 year, bully giant. US and other artists follow.
best wishes, thanks for having me
GA -stop- update X-Files2 coup hollywood surprising comprehensive –stop- all US arts in Rudolphs money hands –stop- all else OK-ed pretense old hollywood just gossip media words –stop- WARNING all old hollywood all current bluff all you advised –stop- you TAKE head-you started 2002- your side strongly advised –stop- cannot no contact all disavowed this side –stop- note all & international current news, business, politics intentional lag this side –stop- YOU in know be advised your advisors be only need to know –stop- no balk this strongly advised –stop- Rudolph will follow all –stop- all contracts works and personal stand down immediate strongly advised –stop- WARNING surprising front torrid your way UK -stop- gear up –stop- NOW real vacation your mind choice out UK NOW strongly advised –stop- gear up –stop - (no odd accidents) in travels change plans many times you all safe 1st –stop- prominent dream dress, script in same all –stop- in 2 day update same –stop- don’t look left right –stop- good luck –stop
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# brovi on March 6th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
A Real Nazi X-File - Still.
“I’m tired of fighting it” says Anderson. [GA, 2008] As everyone knows the Nazi Bush/Hollywood clan supported the Nazi Party until 1942; Bush’s financially supported Germany’s Nazi war-machine; and Nazi Hollywood assisted in supporting their propaganda-machine. For those who haven’t done the research, it’s no longer difficult to uncover. Though today’s US Nazi Bush/Hollywood regime are on the outs -via a behind the scene, saving face, upright elite minority group which is known as Rudolph- it still has some teeth. Old Nazi Hollywood was taken over September of last year and most name brand actors, as Anderson, have been laying low until things are sorted out. Anderson was about five years ahead of her time and perhaps one of the first US fighters of the resistance. In large part, here in LA, CA., especially actors, are certainly aware that old corp. Hollywood is totally a ‘Nazi Landing’ responsible for managing the US’s ‘iron curtain’ media-monopoly; propaganda-machine that crushes the majority’s voice and dumbs down the whole society.
It’s critically important, when referencing Anderson, to understand that the management of the Fox’s X-Files (crimedogs) could definitely be considered the poster-child for the Bush/Hollywood Nazi propaganda regime. When Anderson -who hates Nazis- said no more in 2002, was like standing in the headquarters of the SS. in WWII Germany and telling them to shut their frigging gourd! Wow! In hindsight, it’s obvious Anderson’s hate for corp. oppressing Nazis got her into something way beyond her maturity level, though she did have enough sense to get out of the US -once she told them what they could do with their hot garbage juice.
Anderson, though between the lines, has been taking her inside information and warning the public about the US ‘iron curtain’ media since 2002 -supporting the resistance movement here in the US. No way is sucking face with Nazis Anderson’s thing. Rumor is, she’s off fascism and Nazi sympathizers. She is no longer mentally burnt (worked to death for a decade via X-Files) nor is she that same naive firecracker. She is aware how hard she hit their moneybags -and cream sauces- in 2002 by resigning at high ratings, and of the fact that Nazis never forget a betrayal. They have stalked, slandered, blackballed and tormented her for six years. These are dangerous people with no soul and Anderson is not only a threat to them, she is perhaps the only actor that beat them at their own game -and lived to talk, and talk she still does.
It was inevitable that these Nazi Hollywood dorks would endeavor to make a few more tainted bucks on their way out. More importantly, doing so at the expense of one of their most hated victims, Anderson, would be a scoffing feather in their cap. In their weakened state and with her lawyers we can only hope that this fighter of the resistance is calling all the shots concerning her, most probable, coerced involvement with this Nazi X-Files2 -project of revenge, relating to GA’s involvement.
*** Research shows, it seems, that she has only lent her box-office appeal name to it, not her time, heart or career. We don’t envy her having to face the recent perpetrators -and Nazi sympathizers- of her recent personal and professional life again. Maybe she will gain more strength from the experience. Endurance and courage must be Anderson’s intimate friends, as are we who have followed her lead in joining the resistance. She is not forgotten for her thankless sacrifices made for individual and social correctness (for the betterment of society); via her stand against Nazis; at great, enough, cost to her first motherhood, career and personal life.
The shocking caviler of the majority in today’s US society stinks worse than it’s abandonment (Nazi sympathizers.) However, it wasn’t shocking, when Rotten Tomato (US Nazi rag) asked DD & GA what they could tell us about the movie. Laughingly, and turning to Anderson, David made some tangy and delicious infused comment about the plot. Finger on the trigger Anderson only responded with, “I got tired of fighting it.” Sweet!
In dedication to Anderson and other -passive- fighters of the resistance; we commemorate the authors of The White Rose with the very words that prematurely cost them their lives:
“Vivre libre ou mourir.”
Let your hair down. Join the resistance.
best, brovi
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