Smart girls === sexy
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Where's the sex appeal?
Knock knock. It's my puberty.
Not everything needs sex appeal.
This is absolutely true. But also, Gillian Anderson is even more attractive now than she was when X-Files started - that woman has aged like fine wine! Which makes it a doubly stupid thing for the executives to be saying.
If you click through to the original interview it was something they said during casting for the original.
She was an unknown actor and the execs wanted a Pamela Anderson (Baywatch era) style female lead.
Oh yeah... The Fall, American Gods, Sex Education. She just kept getting more and more gorgeous.
No, it doesn’t. But there’s something ridiculous about a Hollywood exec looking at hot women in a show and then saying there’s no sex appeal.
Except Anderson was dripping with sex appeal IMO. She definitely was for mid-teens me.
Sure she had it but her real appeal was the subtlety. She wasn't some bimbo beach babe she was a doctor, an agent a skeptic and a professional. What the executives wanted was the former because their opinion of their audience was somewhere at the bottom of a bottomless pit.
It's also worth noting that the presence of a character like Scully on TV resulted in a noticeable uptick in women applying for roles in agencies like the FBI (say what you will about three-letters but having more female representation isn't making them worse).
This reminds me of the designer of Deus Ex saying that the conspiracies are too real now lol
https://kotaku.com/warren-spector-thinks-deus-ex-is-too-real-for-2021-1846479651
"I’m not sure I’d make Deus Ex today. The conspiracy theories we wrote about are now part of the real world. I don’t want to support that.”
It's probably better that we won't see a reboot done under these executives.
‘Where’s the Sex Appeal?’ About Gillian Anderson
This tell me something important: that executive board was full of blind people.
What we've learned about a lot of them in the past couple of decades tells me she was probably too old/mature for them.
And she didn't get on her knees.
Pamela Anderson as Scully. Wow.
The idea makes me nauseous. That’s enough internet for me tonight.
I vote phoebe waller-bridge, she looks bang on.
For people who know how hot Gillian is but don't remember or weren't alive in the 90s: the theoretical hottest woman on the planet in the 90s would have been a blonde with huge tits and toothpick arms and legs. Gillian is a smokeshow, but people were actually obsessed with Pam.
Have they not seen Sex Education? She's hotter now than she was in the 90s.
No they did not time travel
Q Files -- The Truth is not on 4Chan
I saw Q files and immediately thought of Q from Star Trek and got very excited by that concept for a hot second.
A TNG/X-Files crossover would have been fun. Q would have delighted in fucking with Scully and Mulder.
Peoples' brains have been broken. Nothing ever just happens anymore for so many people. They need a nice and tidy explanation for the chaos that surrounds them, so they turn everything into a conspiracy. A new X-Files series would only exacerbate that (unless they satirize them, though even then, they're not exactly the type of people who grasp satire).
Well I now have something to look forward to and get disappointed about.
Execs must really be blind. I watched X-Files for the first time last year, as a 25 year old, and both of them had sexiness flooding down them in every episode.
Scully's subtleness and her suit, and Mulder's hotheadedness with his shirts/t-shirts and tie.
You could probably do a season about how all the people making up and spreading the conspiracies are all part of a conspiracy...
New Mulder spending half the season facepalming.
The only person who could have played Scully besides Gillian Anderson was Téa Leoni...
And what an episode it was.