Gillian Anderson

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q485298: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Gillian Anderson → The House of Mirth (transcribed 'House of Merth'). Her great-actor credentials include The House of Mirth and Hannibal.
    “And if you watch, you know, the House of Merth, you're like, that's a great actor, or you watch Hannibal, you know, that's a great actor.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:26:28 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Gillian Anderson → The X-Files. Anderson's iconic status comes from the X-Files, which is why her casting works as iconography.
    “whether that's because of, you know, it, X-Files being an iconic show”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:13:13 · Gillian Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Gillian Anderson → Great Expectations. On Great Expectations Anderson made a bold voice choice unrehearsed, which taught her to trust her instinct; she trusted Jane to tell her if it did not work.
    “I remember with great expectations, uh, many years ago, I, I hadn't really even done her voice out loud”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:23:53 · Gillian Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Gillian Anderson → Hannah Einbinder. Jane paired the two because no one had put two such actors in a deranged erotic thriller.
    “there's never been a, a, like, pairing of like 2 actors who are starring in like an erotic thriller of sorts that's been quite deranged in this style.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:08:30 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Gillian Anderson → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Jane says few actors can make the entrance Anderson makes in the movie.
    “there are very few actors who can like make the entrance that Jillian makes in this movie”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:10:35 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Gillian Anderson: Her only Texas Chain Saw viewing was a bad marijuana trip in a stranger's one-room apartment; she can watch gruesome true crime but not horror.
    “they decided to put on Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:07:02 · Gillian Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Gillian Anderson: Anderson notes the dinner scenes work best played straight, with Billy's naivete against Chris's anxiety, not as seduction.
    “those scenes couldn't have been played like, um, uh, foreplay scenes”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:41:26 · Gillian Anderson (0.85 sure it was them)