Gillian Anderson on Feminism, Being Asked to Smile, & Not Feeling Sorry For Men“Ba
Gillian Anderson on Feminism, Being Asked to Smile, & Not Feeling Sorry For Men“Back in August of 2014, Gillian Anderson did an interview with Celia Walden for Glamour UK. She discussed feminism, how she compares herself to Kristin Stewart, and if you read on you can witness what she does when someone asks her to smile. And then this happened as they continued to talk:Our photographer: Can you smile for the camera, Gillian?GA: I don’t smile.Our photographer: Can you look impish?GA: I can do impish.CW: You do impish but you don’t smile?GA: [Laughing] Yes. Do you know what’s funny? Sometimes I’ll see photographs of myself in the early days of The X-Files, and I think that my attitude towards the whole thing was very similar to Kristen Stewart’s. There’s a very similar look in my eye: slightly defiant, slightly bored. All I ever got was: “Smile! Smile!” when I didn’t want to smile. And I really wish that somebody at that time had told me: “You know that it’s OK to be who you really are.”I love that Anderson made that connection because it is so ridiculously true. Stewart got swept up in a sea of Twilight fame and was then skewered by the media when she didn’t fit into a certain mold. Stewart’s talked abut the double standard in Hollywood before and has a lot of great things to say, even if they aren’t what most would consider “nice” or “polite” when she’s asked to smile”.Read the full interview here -- source link
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