Gillian Anderson is teasing a conversation he had with director Ryan Coogler about the X-Files reboot he is developing.
In a new interview, the star of the Fox series who played Agent Dana Scully gave insight into her conversation with Coogler.
“I spoke to him, and what I said was, ‘If anyone were to do it, I think you are the perfect person and best of luck, call me,’” Anderson said on ITV1’s This Morning while promoting her latest film The Salt Path. “At some point, if the phone rings and it’s good and it feels like the right time — perhaps.”
Coogler recently provided an update on the development of X-Files during an appearance on Last Podcast on the Left, stating that he had spoken to Anderson.
“I’ve been excited about that for a long time, and I’m fired up to get back to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really f—ing scary,” he teased, adding: “We’re gonna try to make something really great, bro, and really be something for the real X Files fans, and maybe find some new ones.”
A year ago, Anderson discussed the Sinners director helming the project, saying on the Today show that she “cannot think of a better way for a reboot to happen,” calling the filmmaker “a bit of a genius.”
“Whether I am involved in it is a whole other thing. I’m not saying no,” she added. “I think he’s really cool and I think if he did it, it would probably be done incredibly well. And maybe I’ll pop in for a little something something.”
The X-Files premiered in 1993, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully, respectively. For 11 seasons, the duo investigated cases involving the paranormal and led to two feature films in 1998 and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Watch Anderson’s full interview talking about The Salt Path and The X-Files below.