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June 15, 1998 ROSIE: Hey, we all know our first guest as Agent Dana Scully on "The X-Files." I love it. Her new film, the long-awaited film, "The X-Files" I love it. Please welcome, I love her, Gillian Anderson! [ Cheers and applause ] ROSIE: You scared me there. What have you got there? GILLIAN: I�m sorry. I have something to go with your ice cream. ROSIE: You�ve got a cheesecake? GILLIAN: I�ve got. No. This is tofu pie. (Audience basically goes "Grrooossss!!!! Laughter.) ROSIE: Seriously? GILLIAN: Seriously. It�s tofu pie. ROSIE: Do you actually consume this, Gillian? GILLIAN: I used to. And I have been looking for it in New York. Now I don�t know how good this stuff is cause usually you can get pumpkin flavor and blueberry and chocolate flavor and it�s really good. But it�s wheat-free ROSIE: Yeah. GILLIAN: --and dairy-free ROSIE: Oh, yeah. GILLIAN: ---and it�s sugar-free. ROSIE: (not thrilled) Great. GILLIAN: And I want to see you take a bite. (Laughter. Great laugh from Gillian.) ROSIE: (really not thrilled) It sounds delicious. (Laughter.) GILLIAN: I think you�ll ---- ROSIE: Did you bring me a fork? GILLIAN: No. ROSIE: You didn�t? GILLIAN: We could use --- (indicates Toy Story toys on Rosie�s desk) ROSIE: We can use one of my toys? (laughter) ROSIE: Children, don�t do this at home. I�m using Woody�s hat. Don not do this at home (Laughter. Rosie dips plastic Woody toy headfirst into the pie and takes a taste off the hat. Seems to like it then makes a face. Gillian laughs. Audience laughs.) GILLIAN: It�s honey flavor. Is it any good? Good? ROSIE: (it�s not good, laughter) Now, you know what�s scary? The first taste sort of entertaining and then it becomes like that paste you used to have in third grade. (laughter from all, another face) Oh, my God. GILLIAN: (tastes it) It�s not a very good one. ROSIE: Not a good one? GILLIAN: It�s not a very good one. ROSIE: Here, Woody, you eat it. (Shoves the toy into the pie.Laughter.) There you go. Let Woody eat it. Well are you a total like health food freakazoid like that? GILLIAN: Yeah. [ Laughter ] ROSIE: Like you�re no wheat and sugar? GILLIAN: I try not to. But every once in a while I like binge on chocolate chip cookies. ROSIE: Now answer me this. Do you do this for health reasons or do you do this to maintain your physique? GILLIAN: I do it because I�m very sensitive to food I�ve found, and I have a very low wheat tolerance. ROSIE: How did this manifest? How did you know you had a low wheat tolerance? GILLIAN: Because it puts me to sleep. ROSIE: It does? GILLIAN: Well, which is why I kind of eat it. You know. When you�re craving carbohydrate when you�re craving bread -. You feel - You can�t just have one. You�ve got to have twenty. ROSIE: What about sugar? What did sugar ever do to you? (Audience laughs.) GILLIAN: Sugar. (laugh) Sugar, it just makes my heart race. It makes my moods swing up and down. I don�t like myself on sugar. I like being kind of even. So I quit coffee this year, too. ROSIE: And coffee? What do you have? A - a soybean burger? What do you do? GILLIAN: You know, like protein and vegetables, and there�s some good stuff. There�s some great like sugar-free, wheat-free desserts. I promise. ROSIE: Well, listen GILLIAN: (referring to the toy still in the pie) Woody is enjoying it. ROSIE: Woody�s liking it. Maybe Cruella De Ville will like it. (Begins stuffing plastic toys in the pie. Lots of laughter.) Do you know who this is? The skipper from Gilligan�s Island? Let�s give him a little. He�ll like it. Maybe Dorothy Gale and Toto. Look. Toto, too. There you go. GILLIAN: I think Toto would like it. (laugh) (Lots of laughter.) ROSIE: Now, first of all, I am so excited about this movie. Look at you on "Details." Hello? (holds up magazine) Scary alien looking, yet gorgeous. What about that? (Cheers and applause.) ROSIE: Who took that? Do you remember? GILLIAN: I can�t remember. I can�t remember the name. Remember a while ago on the cover of Photo Magazine, Naomi Campbell was on there. The silver? Do you remember seeing that? The same one. ROSIE: Do they make you get dressed up, mild alienesque because of the show? And the subject matter? GILLIAN: Well, no. I�ve had some fun with some photographers and stuff. But it�s not always alien oriented. Sometimes there�s other things. ROSIE: Right. I remember this. So great. In "Us" magazine, look at you as Morticia Addams. (shows picture of Gillian as Morticia with Cousin It.) GILLIAN: And look at this guy. It�s the Thing --- ROSIE: That�s Cousin It. GILLIAN: Cousin It. Who�s the thing? What am I talking about. ROSIE: Thing is the hand. And then Lurch. Remember Lurch? GILLIAN: I never saw this. I never saw it. ROSIE: You never saw this?! GILLIAN: No. Never saw "Lucy" either. ROSIE: (shocked) Hold it. GILLIAN: I�m sorry. ROSIE: Hold it. You never saw "I Love Lucy?" GILLIAN: (holding up hands) I�m sorry. I grew up in London. And I didn�t have those shows. ROSIE: You grew up in London? That�s wrong, Gillian. (Audience laughs.) Why did you grow up in London? GILLIAN: Well, cause we moved there. My dad went to the London Film School and they fell in love with London. ROSIE: How old were you when you lived in London? GILLIAN: No, I know Well, I was born in Chicago and then when I was six months we lived on Puerto Rico for about 15 months and then we moved to London. ROSIE: Until you were ?? GILLIAN: Eleven. ROSIE: You don�t have a trace of a British accent. GILLIAN: I had it for a while. I kept it for a long time, kind of as a crutch. I kind of you know --- ROSIE: When you have a few beers, (does drunk cockney imitation)"All right, lovey, lets go over there!" does it come out? GILLIAN: No. ROSIE: People tell me that when I get excited or inebriated look at this. (Shows picture of Gillian as the Flying Nun.)You as the Flying Nun. You never saw that show either? I don�t know why they allowed you to pose as these people when you don�t know them. Geez? Do you watch your own show? GILLIAN: I do. ROSIE: I watch it every single week. I have been confused, lately by about a lot of things that happened. GILLIAN: Me too. ROSIE: The whole thing when they were spraying the money, and a good guy saved them. Is this in the movie? Is this revealed in the movie? GILLIAN: (pause) No, I think you just missed it. ROSIE: I didn�t get that part? GILLIAN: No and I couldn�t explain it to you on my life, right now. ROSIE: People like me who are addicted to it, they�re scary fanatics. I missed the Expo. I was in Miami. There was a big "The X-Files" Expo. Did you go? GILLIAN: I did. I went to both of them in New York here. And they were a lot of fun. Just people that love the show. ROSIE: Right. GILLIAN: And they were really sweet, and, you know, they who just love the show. ROSIE: Do you have a favorite episode? GILLIAN: (reaching behind her chair) I brought you a gift. ROSIE: Please don�t make it be health food related. GILLIAN: No nono. You could stuff it in his face, too, if it�s not crowded. (She pulls out latex head of guy with face sewn together from Patient X/R and B: ) ROSIE: Disgusted! Is that the guy from the bridge or the guy in Russia? GILLIAN: I don�t know who this is. Can you see? Apparently this is the guy from I like this. (plays with it�s hair.) ROSIE: Remember when you were on the bridge and we thought you were dead and you weren�t. Give me that scary, disgusting thing. (Does voice for the head.) Do you want some tofu? "Yes, I do! Before I used to eat normal food. Then I had tofu. Now look at me! Ahhhh!" (Laughter, cheers and applause.) ROSIE: That is scary, though. GILLIAN: It is pretty scary. ROSIE: Any of the shows freak you out, ever? Because you�re doing them. You don�t get to experience them like we do. GILLIAN: I have to read the scripts during the daytime. But other than that, I�m you know --- ROSIE: Second to last one of season, the one where that scary guy was like an alien thing and he went into the light and Mulder saw it and you didn�t. GILLIAN: Yeah. It was upside down on the wall. And it was just about to eat his head. ROSIE: Is that in the movie? GILLIAN: No. (laugh) ROSIE: Not in the movie either? GILLIAN: I can�t tell you anything about the movie. I brought a clip which I hope I hope I�m not going to get in trouble for showing it, because it�s a clip from the movie. And let�s just show it before I get into trouble. (laugh) ROSIE: Do you need to set it up? GILLIAN: No. I think it speaks for itself. ROSIE: Okay. This is the movie that comes out Friday. Take a look. (Clip - from Deep Throat, season one, where Mulder gets Scully out of the car to see the UFOs over Ellen�s AFB,, but instead they see irritating teeny-bopper band Hanson singing MMM Bop. Very funny.) (Audience cheers and applause.) ROSIE: That�s in the movie? Hanson is in the movie? Hanson are aliens? You rat! GILLIAN: Isn�t that funny! ROSIE: That is funny. GILLIAN: I thought that was funny. That�s funny. ROSIE: Not in movie. We have to clear it up for people. They�re like "Hanson is in the new film." You�re coming back for another season and much more, I hope? GILLIAN: Yes. Definitely. Shooting in LA. ROSIE: Better for you? Tough to be up there in Vancouver. GILLIAN: It is. It is a beautiful place and I have a lot of people that I love up there, but it�s time. ROSIE: How is your baby? GILLIAN: She�s great. Doing very well. She�s excited about it, too. I think. She�s been listening to a lot of reggae lately. ROSIE: She�s three, isn�t she? GILLIAN: Yes. She�s three and a half. She loves Buffalo Soldier. I don�t know why. She does. ROSIE: Where did she get the Reggae CD? GILLIAN: Well, from me. ROSIE: There you go. My son knows all the words to "South Pacific," I think it�s what we push them towards. GILLIAN: I think you�re probably right. ROSIE: June 19th , the movie opens. You come back whenever you want. At the commercial, you tell me what happens in the film. Just me? GILLIAN: (whispers) Okay. ROSIE: Be right back with Ana Gasteyer after this. (They shake hands. Commercial.) Transcript provided by CarriK and appears courtesy of The Rosie O'Donnell Show.      |