According to Scully herself, Gillian Anderson, she was originally offered half of co-star David Duchovny's pay to reprise her role in Fox's new X-Files miniseries.

Though she originally told the story in The Hollywood Reporter's oral history of the X-Files, the topic came up again in a recent interview with The Daily Beast.

“I’m surprised that more [interviewers] haven’t brought that up because it’s the truth,” Anderson said. “Especially in this climate of women talking about the reality of [unequal pay] in this business, I think it’s important that it gets heard and voiced. It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly. I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it."

Anderson and Duchovny will ultimately be getting equal pay for equal work, but Anderson still calls FOX's initial offer "sad."


Since The X-Files went off the air in 2002, Anderson has appeared in shows like Hannibal, War and Peace, and starred in BBC cop drama The Fall. Duchovny's best known work since Fox Mulder is probably debauched writer Hank Moody in Showtime's Californication.