Flashback Friday: Gillian Anderson Remembers Her First Golden Globes
Gillian Anderson’s big win at the 1997 Golden Globes for her role in the X-files. Photo: Getty Images
Do you remember your first Golden Globes? Gillian Anderson does.
The actress, who won for The X Files in 1997, says her strongest memory isn’t of hearing her name called, or standing on the podium. “The thing I remember most vividly is Sean Penn,” she says. “He lit up a cigarette in the middle of the awards, and of course, there’s no smoking allowed at The Golden Globes! Not now. Not back then. Not ever. So you saw a hundred heads all craning towards this one man, and this one small stream of cigarette smoke that was rising up into the room. I remember watching everyone watching Sean Penn, until the cigarette was completely gone. Because regardless of what was permitted and what wasn’t, nobody was going to tell Sean Penn to put out that fucking cigarette. If it had been anyone else,” she says with eyes wide, “they would have been…I mean… I’m glad I don’t smoke!”
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Anderson’s currently starring in the BBC Drama The Fall alongside Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey), which airs in the US on Netflix. “People come up to me and tell me they binge-watch it,” she says, “Which I understand is a very high compliment from Netflix subscribers. I’ve never done that with a TV show, but I did just binge on Serial, which was fascinating and addictive.”
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Has she heard the rumors of a Serial movie? “That’s a terrible idea,” she winces. “The whole point of Serial is that it exists in a whole other medium, and that’s a big part of its success. Why would you need to turn it into a movie? You don’t have my ‘go’ on that. It’s a very bad idea,” she grins, “like smoking.”
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