Imagine, for a moment, that an actor of a British male character respected at the middle age – Jason Isaacs, let’s say – had been thrown into the main role of a sex in a popular Netflix series focused on Gen Z, entitled Something Like Love lessons. Then imagine that Isaacs had apparently become so obsessed with the scrambling of the boundaries between him and his character that he had not only published a book on the sexual fantasies of men, including anonymously one of his in there, but had started a secondary career appearing on the podcasts in which it may seem to be free to discuss their peccadoles and canons, but they may seem.
It would never happen – even for a man as friendly as Isaacs. However, something very similar took place with its Salt path And Sex education Co-Star Gillian Anderson, a woman who seems to have transformed it into her Sex education Character Jean Milburn, only with coldness and grandeur. (Her Instagram profile, where she has 3.5 million followers, describes her as “actor. Author. Activist. Dog mom”.) When Anderson recently appeared on the Davina McCall podcast Start againThe presentation text has spurred that “this episode is to give you permission to explore your wildest fantasies, the power of desire and the importance of asking what you really want – not only in the room but in life!”
The territory of mother-in-a certain age is hardly unknown, and Anderson cannot be blamed for having adopted extracurricular activities. His most recent book, 2024 To want, was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, and she went well in a career that also encompassed television, cinema and theater, now, like that of the author. (We are going to draw a veil with tact on the trio of fantastic novels, The Earthend saga, that it has co-author, or at least put its lucrative name, between 2014 and 2016.) it is one of the best known actresses in Great Britain, thanks to its role as stars in X files And its high subsequent profile, and remains a guest to the list has more wanted at any party or evening. So why, then, is Gillian Anderson so difficult to warm up?
Most actors try to give an impression of warmth and sympathy in press interviews and in public appearances on things like Graham Norton’s show. Even if, in private, they hate everyone around them and consider themselves to be part of a rarefied species, they have received in -depth media training to go to the earth and accessible. Anderson, however, went entirely in the other direction. If she is obliged to appear in a discussion living room, she carries an air of height regal which suggests that she considers the whole affair so deeply under her, and carries this feeling of superiority in the interviews. Journalists use the words “icy” or “steel” in the profiles about it; A polished way of describing someone who clearly has little interest in entering with those she finds under her.
Why is Gillian Anderson so difficult to warm up?
If Anderson’s work was still extraordinary, it could be forgiven a large part of this distances. Many of the biggest actors in history could not be described as “Gentile”, from Marlene Dietrich to Tommy Lee Jones. Anderson would also say that it is a misogynist duck that she should be considered warm and vague because she is a woman. It could, of course, be right, but the difficulty is that it is at least a variable screen talent.
Anderson was indeed magnificent in the Edith Wharton adaptation of Terence Davies The Maison de la Gaieté, and indeed gave very good performances in the adaptation of the BBC Dark house And serial killer tragedy The fall, Who both used its icy beauty and its cool intelligence. But she was devastating that Margaret Thatcher in the fourth series of The Crown, Ploching her performance just this side of the pantomime in an apparent attempt to convince viewers that she, herself, had nothing about this ordeal that she played and that she did not share an iota of her politics or completely reprehensible opinions.
As Anderson appeared Sex education, A pleasant but silly spectacle that exceeded her welcome, it was clear that she had come to consider herself as a great British institution; Ironic, really, for a woman born in Chicago and who has gotten importance by playing American characters. It is therefore fun that its most recent performance is still one of its most controversial.
Anderson and Isaacs played Raynor and Moth Winn, the protagonists besieged with The path of salt, In the success of the film from the book, which has since met after the revelations that Winn had been more than a little economical with the news. Ironically, Anderson had already made his own doubts inadvertently about Winn, saying in an interview: “I was surprised to see how kept it was … It was interesting to meet a certain Sailess.” Or, indeed, a fear that being raised to another level of recognition would lead to its subsequent exposure by the British newspaper Observer.
Anderson did not publicly comment on the scandal, and it is unlikely that it will be ready to do it until it is settled in one way or another. However, she was to break the silence and admit that she felt bored, even a betrayed, by the undeniably embarrassing situation, it would be a little rare in the armor of this queen of ice, sexual sex and, it would seem that the woman of versatile Renaissance. Just a shade of vulnerability, you can’t help but think, make the magnificent Anderson who bit more human, and therefore sympathetic. However, if this will happen, however, is a mystery worthy of the investigation powers of agent scully.
