Gillian Anderson offered half pay compared to male costar
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Anderson was among the forerunners of securing equal pay for male and female stars in the 1990s, having initially received much less that her co-star.
"I can only imagine that at the beginning, they wanted me to be the sidekick," Anderson said of the Fox network. "Or that, somehow, maybe it was enough of a change just to see a woman having this kind of intellectual repartee with a man on camera, and surely the audience couldn't deal with actually seeing them walk side by side!
But Anderson was amazed that the same situation occurred when negotiating pay in 2015.
"Even in interviews in the last few years, people have said to me, 'I can't believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.'
"And my response always was, 'That was then, this is now.' And then it happened again! I don't even know what to say about it."
Gillian Anderson is such an amazing actress and person! X-Files would be nothing without her.
The fact they were paying David more honestly shows how messed up this industry is. She's the only remaining original cast member who was in every season as a main when David left.
