The X-Files creator Chris Carter is opening up about the early days of the seminal Fox sci-fi series, and opining on the challenges ahead for Ryan Coogler as he preps a reboot. “No matter what, he’s got a hard job,” Carter told Inverse in a recent interview. “Casting is a hard job.
Mounting it is a hard job. All the problems that I dealt with are going to be his problems.” One of the issues Carter recalled about the original series which first aired in 1993 was casting Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agent, doctor and skeptic Dana Scully. “I wanted to take her before the studio and the network,” Carter told Inverse.
However, the network wanted a bombshell type. “Where’s the sex appeal?,” Carter recalled executives asking. “Even though Gillian’s beautiful, she wasn’t their idea of sexy.
First, because they didn’t understand what I was trying to do with the show. And she was an unknown, so that never helps.” David Duchovny, who would go on to play FBI Special Agent and staunch believer Fox Mulder, was also relatively unknown, but Carter fought hard for both.
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