And she was twice as good (okay, she was waaaaaaaaay too whimpery in the last stories). And the arrogant, sex-addict Duchovny left the show thinking he was such a hot commodity that he'd become a silver screen star. (How'd that work out?) Left Robert Patrick to fill in - and do a much better job.
But, hey Gill, they didn't even bring Robert Patrick back for the revival. (That article indicates Annabeth Gish - Patrick's counterpart in the show - won't be in it, either, but she is.)
The revival starts tomorrow, if you want to believe....The studio initially required Anderson to stand a few feet behind her male partner on camera, careful never to step side-by-side with him. And it took three years before Anderson finally closed the wage gap between her pay and Duchovny’s, having become fed up with accepting less than “equal pay for equal work.”
“I can only imagine that at the beginning, they wanted me to be the sidekick,” Anderson says of Fox’s curious no-equal-footing rule. “Or that, somehow, maybe it was enough of a change just to see a woman having this kind of intellectual repartee with a man on camera, and surely the audience couldn’t deal with actually seeing them walk side by side!”
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The work Anderson put into securing equal pay back in the ’90s seemingly came undone when it came time to negotiate pay for this year’s event series. Once again, Anderson was being offered “half” of what they would pay Duchovny.
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“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 in the past to get us to be paid fairly. I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it.
“Even in interviews in the last few years, people have said to me, ‘I can’t believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.’ And my response always was, ‘That was then, this is now.’ And then it happened again! I don’t even know what to say about it.”
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(Sources told the Hollywood Reporter Anderson and Duchovny ultimately took home equal pay for the event series.)
Daily Beast
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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