Talking about why Stella was her favourite character she said:
“Partly that’s maybe where I am in my life and my age now, but I also
feel like she’s quite unique and I still find her mysterious. I still am
intrigued by her and want to see what her journey is. So that interests
me.”
While not much is known about the plot for the third series of
The Fall, Gillian said it would reveal more about her character’s
background, saying: “There are bits and pieces, little things that are
said that reveal a little bit about where she’s come from and what her
life experience is… what brought her to be where she is today.”
The actress is hoping to cut down on her commitments in 2016, though she already has an extremely busy few months planned. She said: ”I think if there was anything it would be to be less busy. [But] I have quite a few plans. I did War and Peace, and The-X Files are coming out in January. Then continuing with The Fall until March, then go to New York with Streetcar; I did that here last year, and we are taking that to New York.”
”I just did a film in India playing Edwina Mountbatten and Hugh Bonneville plays Lord Mountbatten.”
And as well as her stage and screen work, the 47-year-old actress is also keeping busy with her book writing. ”I have just released a second novel in a trilogy The Dream of Ice, so there is the next in that series. I am working on another novel with a friend of mine called We, that will be coming out next September.”
She has also lent her voice to a project with Audible as the
narrator of the Wilkie Collins story, Mrs Zant And The Ghost. “I understand my ‘sci-fi cred’ as a result of it (The X-Files) and why I
might be asked to do a sci-fi audio book because of that fact,” she
said. Part of the appeal of the project was the fact that it was tied to the
old Victorian tradition of sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve.
”I love Victorian stories; Victorian ghost stories are even better.”
Sources: Irish Examiner, Tribute