Award-winning actress Gillian Anderson
said Top Gear hooks its audience like a ‘testosterone-filled injection’,
and is devoured by fans like TV ‘comfort food’, adding that embattled host Jeremy Clarkson was ‘very sweet’ to her when she was a guest driver on the popular BBC show recently. ‘People rely on it,’ she said for Daily Mail. ‘He’s become an institution — and the show’s an institution.’
The actress told the hysteria over Clarkson’s suspension was understandable,
because fans addicted to his controversial style weren’t ‘going to get
their fix any more’.
She will
once more don Detective Superintendant Gibson’s sensual silk blouses to
film a third series next year. Oh, and some of those seen in season two
will be back in series three. ‘She’s not going to suddenly get all new
blouses!’ Gillian exclaimed. ‘The realism is important to me, and she’s
obviously not going to let go of that wardrobe. So, there’ll be a
mixture of old and new.’
There
will be some digging into Stella’s past, too; but the opening episodes
will look at the repercussions from the series two finale — when serial
killer Paul Spector was shot by a jealous husband as Stella was about to
apprehend him.
Anderson
refused to give too much away about the glamorous but tough officer
with ‘Daddy’ issues she plays in the show. ‘It’s the mystery that keeps
it as compelling as it is,’ she said. However,
she did say that The Fall won’t be shot until very late this year, or
early next — and that she believed it could go into a fourth season in
2017.
About the X Files:
If intense negotiations can be finalised soon, then filming of six
episodes of the very last look at the X-Files, the sci-fi show that
launched her and David Duchnovny 22 years ago, could be under way as
early as June.
Writers
who worked on the original series have been asked to contribute. ‘The
idea is to get the old gang back, have some fun and get a bit of closure
for us and the audience,’ she told.
