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Gillian's new role is one for the X Files Last updated at 11:33 PM on 26th June
2008


A capacity to shock: Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson will take on one of the most controversial roles an actress can
play on the stage.
She will star as Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, which opens at the Donmar
Warehouse Theatre in Covent Garden next spring.
A
new version of the drama has been written by Zinnie Harris and will be
directed by Kfir Yefet. More than a century after Henrik Ibsen wrote A
Doll's House, where Nora famously, walks out on her husband and
children, that defiant act still has the capacity to shock.'How
does a woman... how can a woman... abandon her children like that?'
Gillian wondered, when we discussed A Doll's House on Wednesday in
London.
The actress, who has two children and is pregnant with
her third, added: 'To some of us, it just feels absolutely shocking. I
couldn't imagine it, and yet it happens all the time for one reason or
another.'

And in between preparing for A Doll's House and
her new baby, Gillian is waiting for the release, in August, of X
Files: I Want To Believe, a big-screen movie in which, after a break of
several years, she reprises her role as agent Dana Scully. 'They've all
matured, which is such a funny word to use because of course we've
matured  -  we're ten years older in X Files, and look it,' she said.
The
part of Scully made her a star, but she has more than proved her acting
abilities in other work, particularly the film House Of Mirth and her
spectacular performance as Lady Dedlock in the award-winning BBC TV
serial of Bleak House.
But she likes to return to the stage even
though, she says, it terrifies her. 'Every time I put up my hand (to go
on stage again), it's the other arm trying to pull my hand down,' she
said, laughing. 'It's like: "What do you think you're doing?" But it's
so rewarding when I do theatre.' Certainly not in monetary
terms, and not at the Donmar, where she'll be on the Equity union
minimum of around £400-£500 a week. 'I still choose to get involved in
theatre. It's important enough to me in my life, that I think I'd
choose it regardless of whether I could feed my children,' she joked.




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