Gillian Anderson

1 sketch, 3 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! (guest)

Does not watch horror and avoids it; trust in the director and a bold, researched choice drive her work. Likes confident filmmakers who communicate with actors. Her pick is The Invite.

Stances

  • Trusts her instinct over the years
  • Directors often cannot communicate with actors
  • Not against horror if the right thing comes

Humor: Wry and self-aware, laughing at her own repeated stories.

In their words

  • “I can watch the gruesomest true crime stuff, but I can't watch horror.” (1:07:34)
  • “but I'm not adverse to it.” (1:50:41)
  • “I find her such a confident uh, filmmaker” (1:53:33)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–3 of 3 claims.

  1. 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)
  2. lineage (lineage): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Sunset Boulevard. 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)
  3. 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)

Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  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)