'X-Files: I Want to Believe': Q&A with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, July 28, 2008
HW: Gillian, Scully was always on her cell phone. What is your relationship with your cell phone and how do you think Scully influenced women in this country?
GA: I think I only ever talked to Mulder on that cell phone. I don't think that there were any conversations that we ever had with anyone else except for Mulder, if you remember.
DD: You were in my fav five.
GA: Was I number one or number two? [Duchovny holds up one finger]. Remember how big our cell phones were? We just happened to have them in our pockets.
DD: Yeah. You had to have like a trench coat to have them in the pocket…'Hello? I'm talking to you on a phone that's not attached to anything.'
GA: I've had letters from people, even actually recently, who have said, 'Funnily enough I've been a fan for many years and it's because of Scully that I'm now a forensic pathologist –' or 'I'm now a medical doctor –' or 'I'm now in the FBI –' or any of the 15 things that she was as a professional to be able to say all those complicated words.
DD: You were talented. The cell phone question is interesting because I think that it extended the life of the series because Gillian and I were so fatigued and the advent of the cell phone, in what year? '96? I don't know. But it was instrumental in us being able to have time off because we could split up and we didn't have to be in the same room to have a conversation. I'm being totally serious. I could have some time off and Gillian could have some time off and we'd just talk on the phone to one another rather than being in every scene together.
GA: It's very true.
DD: So if not for the cell phone no second half of The X-Files.