Gillian Anderson offered half David Duchovny’s pay for 'X-Files

Gillian Anderson offered half David Duchovny’s pay for 'X-Files', Gillian Anderson may accept becoming Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Awards for her assuming of Dana Scully in Fox’s sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” but she afresh appear that she had to action to be paid the aforementioned as macho co-star David Duchovny — during the show’s aboriginal run and for the hotly-anticipated revival, premiering Sunday.

Anderson accepted to The Daily Beast that it took her three seasons afore she bankrupt the allowance gap amid her and co-star Duchovny during the show’s ’90s heyday, afterwards growing annoyed of accepting beneath than “equal pay for according work.”

According to The Daily Beast, the flat aswell “initially appropriate Anderson to angle a few anxiety abaft her macho accomplice on camera, accurate never to footfall side-by-side with him.”

“I can alone brainstorm that at the beginning, they capital me to be the sidekick,” Anderson told The Daily Beast. “Or that, somehow, maybe it was abundant of a change just to see a woman accepting this affectionate of bookish answer with a man on camera, and absolutely the admirers couldn’t accord with in fact seeing them airing ancillary by side!”

Although Anderson eventually accustomed bacon adequation with Duchovny, she told The Hollywood Reporter she was already afresh offered “half” of what her macho co-star was getting courted with if she was aboriginal approached about Fox’s “X-Files” revival. (Sources told THR that the two actors concluded up getting paid the aforementioned bulk for the accident series.)

“I’m afraid that added [interviewers] haven’t brought that up because it’s the truth,” Anderson told The Daily Beast. “Especially in this altitude of women talking about the absoluteness of [unequal pay] in this business, I anticipate it’s important that it gets heard and voiced. It was abominable to me, accustomed all the plan that I had done in the accomplished to get us to be paid fairly. I formed absolutely harder against that and assuredly got about with it.”

She added, “Even in interviews in the endure few years, humans accept said to me, ‘I can’t accept that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.’ And my acknowledgment consistently was, ‘That was then, this is now.’ And again it happened again! I don’t even apperceive what to say about it.”

Fox beneath to animadversion on Anderson’s statements.

“The X-Files” awakening premieres Sunday, Jan. 24 on Fox.

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