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Sept. 30, 1996 DAVID: Our next guest stars in the wildly popular television program known as "The X-Files" which makes its season premiere this Friday. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the lovely and talented "Senorita" Gillian Anderson. (Music, GA walks out, applause, etc.) DAVID: How do you do? GILLIAN: I’m good, thank you. Hola! DAVID: Hola! GILLIAN: ¿Como está? DAVID: Hola! Si, oui. Tres bien. Um GILLIAN: (laughs) DAVID: Nice to see you back here. I trust you had a lovely summer. GILLIAN: I did have a lovely summer. Thank you. DAVID: What’d you do for the summer? Did you have the summer off, first off, let’s start there. GILLIAN: I did have it off, but I made the choice to do some traveling, to do some publicity DAVID: Where’d you go? You get pregnant? (laughs) GILLIAN: (laughs) Not this time, sorry to say. DAVID: Yeah, well, okay. GILLIAN: But I took my daughter with me who’s now two. DAVID: Oh, good. Good for you. Where’d you guys go? GILLIAN: We went to a, .. Italy, Germany, France, Bali, Tahiti, Australia. DAVID: (wipes forehead) Whew. GILLIAN: Just hopped around from place to place. DAVID: Really? This sounds more like a kidnapping. One of those Patty Hurst deals. GILLIAN: (laughs) No machine guns. DAVID: Seriously, you traveled all over Europe (GA: We did) and then you went to the South Pacific? GILLIAN: Yes! DAVID: My goodness! How long were you gone? GILLIAN: About uh, two and a half months. DAVID: Really? GILLIAN: For the whole time, about two and a half months. DAVID: So you didn’t get to come home for two and a half months. GILLIAN: We didn’t get to- No, it was actually kind of nice. DAVID: Yep. GILLIAN: Spent some time, uh Bali is absolutely beautiful. DAVID: I’ve heard that. I don’t know anything about it. I’m not even sure where it is. GILLIAN: It’s very - a lot of palm trees. DAVID: What is it near? GILLIAN: It’s near Lambac (sp?) (DL and audience laugh; GA joins in) GILLIAN: It’s, it’s north of Australia. DAVID: Uh, I’m not even sure if it’s near Larchmont, Dave. (WHAT?) Just up the turnpike. GILLIAN: (laughs) It’s a, it’s north of Australia. DAVID: Uh, huh. GILLIAN: It’s actually uh- DAVID: Is it in the Pacific, in the Indian Ocean? What is it in? GILLIAN: What would that be? DAVID: The Japan Sea? Where is it? GILLIAN: That would be uh, that would probably be the Indian Ocean, huh? (looks at audience) Indian Ocean, don’t you think? Huh? Yeah? DAVID: I don’t know. Weren’t you there? Wait a minute, weren’t you there?! GILLIAN: I was there. I was there! But nobody said, "You are now swimming in the Indian Ocean." DAVID: (laughs) GILLIAN: But, it’s interesting because they, at least at the hotel that I was staying at, they speak very good English. DAVID: Mmm, hm. GILLIAN: But you get the impression that they don’t really understand you very well. DAVID: Right .. GILLIAN: Because you’ll say something, and ask them to repeat it back and it’s completely different. I had an experience the last day that we were there. I bought a charcoal drawing, quite large .. DAVID: A charcoal drawing of, of, is this of indigionous art, is what it was? GILLIAN: .. of a naked Balinese woman, actually. DAVID: Really? A naked Polinese woman. GILLIAN: Yeah. Balanise. DAVID: Balinese. Oh, Bali. From Bali. GILLIAN: As opposed to Polinesian, right. So, um, and, uh .. (audience laughs, GA giggles) I wanted to put it in my suitcase, but I didn’t want it to get ruined, so I called down to the general manager and I said, "Do you Have a cardboard tube?" DAVID: Right, like a mailing tube? GILLIAN: So that I could like a mailing tube. And he said, "Um, can you describe that to me?" and I said, "Well, it’s long, and it’s cylindrical, and you put things inside it to keep them from wrinkling." and he said, "Uh, huh." and I said, "Do you know what I’m talking about?" and he said, "What’s cardboard?" DAVID: There you go .. GILLIAN: And I said, "Well, it’s um, boxes! Boxes are made out of cardboard, but it’s like squished together and hard and round and long." and he said, "Is a mini-van too small?" DAVID: Yeaaah. (audience laughs) GILLIAN: .. I said, "We are not having this conversation any more." DAVID: So suddenly you’re, you’re playing the Balinese version of the twenty thousand dollar pyramid just to try to get your picture off the island. GILLIAN: (laughs) Yeah. DAVID: And what is life like there? Is it primitive? Is it um .. GILLIAN: Well, it’s interesting because it’s, it’s beautiful. There are a lot of shacks all over the place. But you know, the qual-, the standard of living is not very high. But they are a very spiritual country and so in front of all of the shacks they have these stone monuments to their gods. And it’s strange that, they’re religion is a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism, and their own kind of an assortment of religions. Um, but there are these amazing religious structures in front of every single shack. DAVID: How big is the island? GILLIAN: Um, how big is the island? I don’t know. Maybe as big as, uh, Rhode Island? DAVID: Really? So it’s enormous then. It’s vast! GILLIAN: (laughs) I have no idea. I know, it’s like DAVID: So you just made that up. GILLIAN: (laughs) Actually, I did! I see it on the map, and I have no frame I mean it’s a dot. DAVID: Right. GILLIAN: It’s a dot on the map. It’s bigger than Tahiti . . DAVID: Bigger than Tahiti .. GILLIAN: It’s smaller than .. DAVID: Smaller than Hawaii. GILLIAN: Smaller than Hawaii, bigger than Tahiti. DAVID: Right. Smaller than Australia. GILLIAN: Much smaller It’s a dot! DAVID: Yeah. GILLIAN: Australia’s like a quarter. DAVID: A smudge. That’s right, yeah. GILLIAN: A smudge. DAVID: Tell these folks about the season premiere of the X-Files, Friday night, what’s gonna happen, what is happening .. GILLIAN: Do you really expect me to tell you what happens on the show? DAVID: Sure. Absolutely. GILLIAN: I can’t tell you, Dave! I don’t want- I can’t tell you. If I tell you . . . DAVID: Yeah .. GILLIAN: I will have to kill you. DAVID: That’s, that’s all right. Take your best shot. (audience laughs/cheers) Go ahead, unload. Goodbye everybody! GILLIAN: You’d love that, wouldn’t you? DAVID: You know, uh, the last time you were here we talked about you had received an Emmy nomination for your work on the show and uh, David Doo-cuv-ney, Doo-chuv-ney, however he’s pronouncing it now, uh- GILLIAN: (laughing) WHAT are you saying? DAVID: (laughs) was overlooked but you said he was very gracious about the fact that you, you know .. GILLIAN: He was incredibly gracious. He’s been pounding the doughnuts a bit, but he’s a, he’s incredibly gracious. (Audience oooohs) That’s a joke! Come on! DAVID: He’s been, he’s been what?! GILLIAN: No, he was incredibly gracious. DAVID: So what did you say he was being GILLIAN: I said he was pounding the doughnuts. DAVID: Pounding the doughnuts .. GILLIAN: No, I saw this thing, on this little thing, on the front, somebody said .. (audience and DL laugh) .. somebody’s saying he’s been shooting up heroine lately. Which he hasn’t been. . . DAVID: What are you No, that’s right. GILLIAN: Of course! He’s, I mean, what can you do? He’s just, he was very, very gracious. DAVID: Yeah, uh, so, but anyway .. the show now, give us a GILLIAN: Buuuut anyway. .. DAVID: - an encapsulated version of what the show is. Now some people are the uh, the monster robots from space, and some people are not. GILLIAN: Wait, no. Hang on a second. Hang on a second. DAVID: But some people are and some people are not. GILLIAN: The last time I was here we got into this conversation and it went like, south, really fast. DAVID: Well, that’s because you’re talking to a dumb guy GILLIAN: We’re not going to have this conversation DAVID: I, you know .. but some are, and some ain’t, right? GILLIAN: No! I’m not going to have this conversation with you, Dave. DAVID: And you, you’re not. GILLIAN: I’m not going to have this conversation with you! DAVID: And that’s why people like to tune in every week, because they think, "Oh, wait a minute, maybe they oh, thank God they didn’t get to her .." GILLIAN: No, when you watch the show, then we can talk about the show. Okay? DAVID: All right, that seems fair enough. GILLIAN: That a deal? When you watch the show for the first time, then we can have this conversation. DAVID: No, I’ve seen the show! I have seen the show. I’m just, you know, for folks maybe who haven’t seen the show. GILLIAN: (laughs) DAVID: Anyway, it begins it’s fourth year, third year? GILLIAN: Yeah, starting it’s fourth year on Fridays DAVID: Fourth year. GILLIAN: - and then on October 27 we move to Sundays. DAVID: Oh, well, that’s probably good, right? GILLIAN: I hope so! DAVID: Yeah, good for you. Congratulations .. GILLIAN: Thank you. DAVID: You look wonderful. I’m happy you enjoyed your summer. GILLIAN: Thanks for having me back. DAVID: Gillian Anderson, ladies and gentlemen. Transcript appears courtesy of The Late Show and CBS.      |