hecklerspray has rediscovered The X-Files recently.
Proving that the DVD boxset is now officially this generation’s standard nostalgia-standby, we have been whittling away many an hour watching early seasons and looking for dimly-remembered episodes. The One With The Stretchy Bloke Who Climbs Out Of Toilets! The One With The Cheeky Little Dead Siamese Twin Who Scuttles Around Killing People! The One Where The Kid From Saving Private Ryan Develops Magic Lightening Powers!
And – of course – this has all brought to mind that old teenage crush on Agent Scully herself Gillian Anderson (a crush that was actually legally enforceable to any mid-90’s schoolboy).
Not that we’d tell her about all of this, mind. She might get drunk and start slapping us on a plane.
Note to lawyers: we did say might.
Conflicting reports are emerging, you see, that – during a flight from Sri Lanka to England – Gillian Anderson (DVDs) got a little bit tipsy and starting "verbally attacking" a fellow passenger.
Having allegedly downed six glasses of red wine, Anderson turned her fiery gaze to a gentleman who was apparently neglecting to look after his child (leaving all the work to his hard-trodden missus). Witness Simon Jones claims that:
"The man was watching a movie and had his headphones on, minding his own business. Gillian reached over, pulled them off his head. I could tell she was drunk because she was putting her face right up to his. She was slurring as well, saying, ‘Don’t you think your wife needs
a break?’ and accusing him of taking his wife for granted. He was
saying, ‘Please leave me alone.’"
Jones then goes on to claim that Anderson was moved from her seat and placed in new surroundings, whereupon she decided to cover herself with a blanket and cry for an hour. Mind you – did you see the last couple of X-Files seasons? If hecklerspray had been involved with that nonsense, we’d probably be weeping too – possibly to the point, Cake-addict style, where we’d ‘cry all the water out of our body’. We expect.
This is all speculation, however. Indeed, a Sri Lankan Airlines manager has gone so far as to refute the story altogether:
"There has not been any complaint from passengers. For us it is of no significance whatsoever that she is a famous actress."
Oh, you know how we want to round this article off, don’t you? You just know. Let’s not pretend we’re ‘above’ all that. Let’s just get it over with.
Altogether now: The Truth Is Out There.
Sigh.
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[story by C J Davies]
MJ says
This new X files movie is A GREAT FILM. I love this movie for the performances and for the development of the Scully-Mulder relationship. The film remains true to the classic levity and humor embedded in times of treachery that was a hallmark of the series. There are some fans who feel it did not deliver in terms of plot, but I would remind them that the series set the bar really high in all aspects of entertainment; drama, comedy, horror, etc. and their expectations were set accordingly high. I will agree that the underlying case being investigated is not as menacing, the stakes are not as high, and the whole staging of events do not reach the sort of epic proportions that perhaps we would have hoped for – and that they reach in the first film of 1998 – but still I contend that a movie which succeeds as well as this one does in telling a worthwhile story is a movie worth seeing. When all is said and done with this film, I loved it and I’d go back again to see it with anyone who loved the series or who has an open mind and wants to see an unconventional romance told through plot-twists and creepy unfolding events.