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'It kept me sane and alive': Gillian Anderson on therapy at 14, sex scenes and why she loves London

Agent Scully? She only did it for the money. Hollywood? No thanks, she’s happier in London. And those sex scenes in BBC hit The Fall... what’s all the fuss about? Event meets the straight-talking TV detective set to take science fiction by storm

There’s a scene in the first series of The Fall, the BBC’s brilliant and controversial Bafta-nominated crime drama, when DSI Stella Gibson, played by the American actress Gillian Anderson, summons a young policeman up to her hotel room for sex. She spots him at a crime scene, calls him over and tells him her room number in the same matter-of-fact way she would ask a junior officer about witnesses. Afterwards, she dismisses him with same lack of emotion. It’s powerful, graphic and, I suggest, quite shocking. ‘Why should this be shocking in 2014?’ shoots back a ... [Continua a leggere]

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