||+ home + menu + ||	Interview with Gillian Anderson on 'Extremis' and 'The X-Files' (1997), click on the questions below to listen to the answers (MP3)
1. Gillian, you have one of the most coveted jobs in the world as Scully in the X-Files, so why have you embarked on another career in the music business?
2. How did you get involved with this project?
3. When and where did you record the single?
4. Who wrote the lyrics?
5. Electronics music often has quite a cold and impersonal feel, do you think your voice makes this track warmer and maybe more accesible?
6. On the record and in the video you're very sensuous. Is this another character you're playing or is it a side of the real Gillian Anderson?
7. Are you and agent Scully a long way from each other in real life?
8. I don't somehow imagine Scully would ever act crazy or sexy for that matter...
9. You mentioned in passing that you felt more restricted when you were pregnant. Has being a mother really changed you or perhaps tamed you?
10. But surley you only have to summon a journalist to your trailer to get your opinions heard...
11. Does the pressure of fame and the attention of the media mean you can't do normal things like walk down the street and go out and buy some bread?
12. Do you think the press will ever leave you alone?
13. Tell me about your background. Where did you grow up and how did you get into acting?
14. So you've spent a lot of your life on the move, have you setteled down now or are you still a roamer?
15. What's a typical day like for you when you are working on the X-Files?
16. It's a punishing schedule but it does have it's rewards, for instance you've now won several awards...
17. Has your association with sci-fi TV programmes and now futuristic music as well increased your own curiosity about technology and the future?
18. It's interesting that the science fiction of the X-Files often seems to reflect the emerging facts of real life. For instance during the recent frenzy about Dolly the sheep I saw an episode all about cloning...
19. A lot of the music on this compilation is on the cutting edge of technology as well as fashion, is your own musical taste veering in that direction?
20. So perhaps you have an alternative future in the music business, picking tracks for more compilation albums...
21. I hear the X-Files creator Chris Carter is planning an X-Files movie, perhaps that'll be your chance to get into soundtracks. Is the film definitely going to happen?
22. Do you find the prospect of making this movie daunting?
23. There's a lot of speculation about the future of X-Files on TV, are you already looking to your future career beyond the show?
24. Do you worry about being typecast?
25. And back to the small screen, just recently Scully and Mulder starred in an episode of The Simpsons, that must have been fun...
26. Which brings us back to your voice on 'Extremis' because you can hear every breath you take, it's a very intimate-sounding performance...
27. Gillian presents 'Extremis': Version 1, Version 2, Version 3