Gillian Anderson has been pretty public about her fight to get give the same amount as David Duchovny for her work on The ten - Files . She ’s understandably a badass . To Fox , though , I have to say : Are you fucking kid me ?
before this month , Andersontold the Hollywood Reporterthat “ There ’s no pointedness in contend with my side [ first ] because , as usual , they come to me with one-half of what they desire to offer David . ” Which — as Scully herself order in one of the approaching instalment — is batcrap crazy .
This is unintelligent on so many levels that it ’s going to take some time to unravel . We should be well past the item where female costars are paid less than their male counterparts , but we are n’t . That ’s the baseborn degree at which this is awful .
But on top of that , it ’s not like there ’s any unknown quantity to these negotiations . Because the show was on boob tube for nine fucking years , everyone need lie with that Mulder and Scully are a team . Even if Mulder ’s obsession ab initio drove the show , you ca n’t say the characters are n’t peer . you may definitely say that Duchovny and Anderson are co - stars , not a lead and a sidekick . In fact , Duchovny left the show and Anderson bear it for two years as the lead . And they ’re snuff it to extend her one-half of what they offered him ? FUCK NO .
It ’s not like he ’s become some superstar while she languished in obscurity and she should just be grateful for any work and they demand to offer him more as an incentive . I would watch The Fall and Hannibal and Bleak House 20 meter each rather than sit through a exclusive installment of Aquarius .
I get that Duchovny entrust , so maybe there ’s an argument that he might postulate more convincing in the form of cold hard Johnny Cash . But at this point , they ’ve both moved on . Even if Anderson were more uncoerced to number back , offer her one-half from the commencement is just insulting .
So , really , the only reason to tender her less is because of sexism — either because her piece of work is n’t appreciate as much or because of the idea that woman wo n’t negotiate for as much . Everyone who thought this was a valid negotiation scheme should be forced to roam the hills of Los Angeles until a Canis latrans gnaws off their face .
Now we get to the point where the particular get even more absurd . plainly , the net initially required Scully to always digest a few foot behind Mulder and it claim three years for Anderson to get adequate wage to Duchovny . Speaking tothe Daily Beast , Anderson say :
I can only imagine that at the beginning , they want me to be the sidekick . Or that , somehow , mayhap it was enough of a change just to see a char having this sort of intellectual repartee with a mankind on camera , and surely the audience could n’t deal with actually run across them take the air side by side !
Either option is ludicrous . The partnership between Mulder and Scully is what made The X - Indian file workplace . Even if Scully was initially seen as a brother , she should have been able-bodied to take the air next to him . Unless you’re able to tell me that Burt Ward was call for to always be behind Batman in 1966 . Oh no ? Then bed right off .
It was n’t the studio apartment that realized there needed to be a modification . It was Anderson , who may very well be flawless :
I have such a articulatio genus - jerk reaction to that stuff , a very short tolerance for that mother fucker . I do n’t know how long it lasted or if it change because I finally said , “ Fuck no ! No ! ” I do n’t remember somebody saying , “ Okay , now you get to take the air alongside him . ” But I imagine it had more to do with my intolerance and spunk than it being an allowance that was made .
I imagine she ’s correct . Because Hollywood will always endeavor to hang on , tooth and nail , to the status quo until someone stand up . Which could backfire all and get an actress labeled as difficult .
Anderson also points out that getting extend half the salary that Duchovny got seemed especially strange fall in that she ’d press so intemperately for adequate treatment the last time around :
It was shocking to me , give all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly . I worked really severely toward that and finally got somewhere with it .
Even in interviews in the last few days , the great unwashed have said to me , “ I ca n’t conceive 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 bump again ! I do n’t even do it what to say about it .
It is lurid that , over two X later , nothing had changed . The same web essay to draw the same bullshit with the same soul . And thought , what ? It would work ? She would all of a sudden be cool being care for unfairly ? And severalize people ? And they would n’t see like asshats of the highest order ?
Even though Anderson ended up getting paid the same amount as Duchovny , the assumption that she should n’t be is galling . In theDaily Beastinterview , Anderson calls it “ lamentable . ” I have another Word of God for it : Bullshit .
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