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Gilliam Anderson / There were times when life was really bad

Gilliam Anderson / There were times when life was really bad

Gillian Anderson Interview Gillian Anderson: ‘There were times when life was really bad’ The actor formerly known as Dana Scully is now a self-help guru. How did she beat self-doubt and her ‘intolerant’ inner voice? Decca Aitkenhead Saturday 11 March 2017 The history of India’s independence and the creation of Pakistan had been unfamiliar to Gillian Anderson when she took the role of Lady Mountbatten for her new film Viceroy’s House. The actor had once hired a private history tutor, a dozen years ago, to fill in some gaps of history she was hazy on – “Stuff that just wasn’t in my brain”...