Gillian Anderson has revealed that she was almost fired when she fell pregnant after the first series of X Files.

The actress, who played FBI agent Dana Scully in the hit show, thinks it was only the dynamics between her and agent Mulder (David Duchovny) that saved her role.

“They would have loved to have punished me but realised there was steam picking up. I thought they were overreacting but now I see it from their perspective,” WENN quotes her as saying.

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It seems that X Files actress Gillian Anderson is in talks regarding a role Doctor Who.

The show’s writers apparently want Gillian to appear in a one-off special episode as “a deadly enemy of the Time Lord.”

Her role would be as renegade Time Lady The Rani, who is “a glamorous but evil scientific genius”. The role was previously played by Kate O’Mara when the show was on in the 80s.

An Doctor Who insider told the Daily Express, “Gillian obviously has a massive sci-fi following and it’s felt that it would be a major coup to have her appear in Doctor Who… Read more & comment »