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.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The X-Files (1993); Hannibal (2001); Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026); A Streetcar Named Desire; Bleak House; Great Expectations; The House of Mirth (transcribed 'House of Merth').

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.

A Clockwork Orange (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), which they acted in: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs.
    “all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

Alien (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes.
    “Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), which they acted in: Friday the 13th ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The in-film franchise is very much Friday the 13th while also running through the paces of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
    “It is very much Friday the 13th, but it's also gone through some of the same paces as Scream, and I know what you did last summer and things like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:21:40 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

Sleepaway Camp: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), which they acted in: Sleepaway Camp ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the maker said so: interviews with Jane). Sleepaway Camp is among the films in Miasma's DNA, along with Nightmare on Elm Street 2.
    “I think the movies that are in this movie's DNA or that have come up in interviews”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:30:53 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

Sunset Boulevard: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), which they acted in: Sunset Boulevard ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). Billy is partly a Sunset Boulevard figure, which Anderson played with in costuming, and the film acknowledges the Norma Desmond comparison itself.
    “the Sunset Boulevard reference”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:14:37 · Gillian Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)

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)