Gillian Anderson was overwhelmed with emotion about the nod, and the five others the show’s team scored altogether.
“I’m quite teary. It was a long journey. I put my heart and my soul into the role, so it feels very moving to have been recognized and to have been recognized alongside so many wonderful actresses, she said.
“And I’m also proud to be a part of that cast and have so many of that cast be recognized,” the actor added. “The nominations belong to every last person that was involved in the show. And I hope they’re celebrating too and know that they’re as much a part of this as we are.” Other castmates to have received nods include Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin, for their respective performances as Prince Charles and Princess Diana, as well as Olivia Colman for her role as Queen Elizabeth II.
Epitomizing the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the small screen was, for Anderson, a dream. And she gave her all to fulfill it.
“I feel that both the combination of both my desire to show myself that I could and the incredible team that ‘The Crown’ has chosen — researchers, teachers, script, the wardrobe department and hair and makeup headed by Cate Hall, directors — gave me the opportunity to do the best job I could do,” Anderson noted.
My happy face for my @goldenglobes nomination! Proud to be alongside such talented women #JuliaGarner, @annefrances @CynthiaNixon & #HelenaBonhamCarter.
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) February 3, 2021
And congrats to @TheCrownNetflix for all your other well deserved nominations! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/YobqFkti4K
She was nominated four times for The X-Files, winning once, and received another nod for Bleak House. “It’s really the most fun of all [the awards shows],” she said this morning, reflecting on her sixth nomination. She adds to her tally this year for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, but she’s sorry the show won’t happen in person. “I’ll be in Prague, on my own in a hotel room that night, and it’ll be a night I will never forget, no matter the outcome.”
As for whether playing Margaret Thatcher gave Anderson a taste for high office, she said, “Who would want to be Boris [Johnson] today? Who would have wanted to be Obama? I don’t think many of us would wish to be in a Prime Minister’s or President’s shoes. Everyone in high office inherits so many problems and issues. To not be able to have a lie in, first and foremost, or to not be able to make mistakes in speaking to friends or even the public, is such monumental pressure, let alone the responsibility for nations that you have. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”
Thatcher, she said, was “built for it—she absolutely was. She says in the series, politics is her first love. That’s where she felt the most at home and where she operated the best, she felt. Whether people agreed with her or not. And she lived and breathed it. She slept very little and her brain was just suited for that office. To many, I think, it would be debilitating and exhausting. And I think some would say she, too, was debilitated by it at the end of her tenure.”
The 78th Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC on Sunday, Feb. 28. at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on NBC. The ceremony will be co-hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, on opposite coasts.
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