The X-Files has released 16 new episodes over two and a half years. For Carter, the challenge is now seeing where it goes next, if there is a next. But Gillian Anderson has already ruled out returning for more episodes.
“Gillian has announced that she doesn’t want to come back, which I respect. It might be done without her,” Carter told the Australian News.
“For me, to be honest, The X-Files is Mulder and Scully so the idea of doing it without her is one I haven’t confronted yet and I don’t really have to because there is some time now, because 20th Century Fox (which makes the show) is going to be 20th Century Disney pretty soon (if the two companies merge) and that will change everything.”
Asked if Carter has started to lobby Anderson to change her mind, he says he hasn’t.
“I’m not trying to convince her, she’s got her own life. Everyone has their own life, their own reasons and I don’t question them.
“It’s my job to figure out how we go forward without her in an interesting way. We have done the show without Mulder for a time, so there are always ways to skin that cat but I haven’t had time to think about that yet.”
If the series does end where it did, it leaves a lot of questions hanging, especially when it comes to William, Scully’s son. But as Carter likes to point out, even when we think we know what’s happening, it doesn’t mean we do.
“On The X-Files, the truth is always out there,” he says. “Just because we’ve been given something, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we should take it at face value.”