Gillian Anderson has admitted that she was initially only offered half the salary figure that David Duchovny was offered for the rebooted series of The X Files.
‘I’m surprised that more [interviewers] haven’t brought that up, because it’s the truth,’ she admitted in an interview with The Daily Beast about the pay gap.
‘Especially in this climate of women talking about the reality of [unequal pay] in this business, I think it’s important that it gets heard and voiced.
It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done… Read the full story