Gillian Anderson suggests her life is following a 'divine plan'
Gillian Anderson believes a higher power might be guiding her in life.
Gillian Anderson believes her life has followed a "divine plan".
The 58-year-old actress has enjoyed success on stage and screen, but Gillian has suggested that a higher power may have guided her in a particular direction in her life and in her career.
She told The Independent: "I’ve never allowed anyone to force me into anything that I didn’t want to do.
"It’s more been about choosing to step away for a period of time, or do theatre, or do an indie film, as opposed to whatever your trajectory is meant to be.
"It’s funny, only sometimes in retrospect does one realise there might have been a divine plan all along."
Gillian thinks her career arc also reflects her real-life self.
She explained: "I think I’ve always stayed on a path that makes sense for me at any given time. And ultimately you get to a point where you feel like, yes – this does represent who I am."
Gillian shot to international stardom after appearing in The X Files, the hit sci-fi TV show, in the 90s.
However, the actress previously recalled feeling overwhelmed by the fame and success that she experienced.
Gillian - who was just 25 when the series premiered in 1993 - said on the Fail Better podcast: "I do remember times where I just bawled my eyes out.
"It's hard under those circumstances."
The actress starred alongside David Duchovny on the show, and she recalled them both becoming "uber adults very quickly".
Gillian said: "It required us to be, you know, uber adults very quickly. And I have to imagine that under those extreme circumstances that the only thing that at times is gonna wanna come out is actually our [inner] child and not our adult at all."
The X Files was a hugely successful series, but the show's main stars often clashed behind the scenes.
At one stage, Chris Carter - the series creator - suggested an innovative solution to end their off-screen feud.
David shared: "I think we were kind of butting heads so early on in the first season that Chris asked us if we would go into fake couples therapy. Would we go into, like, TV character couple therapy?
"I remember sitting in his office with [Gillian], and Chris is like, ‘Yeah, do you guys wanna go, like, into therapy?’ And I was like, ‘You mean as Mulder and Scully? I’m confused…’"
