Gillian Anderson Boycotts TV.... Former X-Files star Gillian Anderson will never appear on TV again, claiming it is destroying society.The actress has stuck to movies since quitting the series in 2002 - recently appearing in Academy Award-winning film The Last King Of Scotland.And although she is rumoured to be reuniting with David Duchovny for another movie version of the hit sci-fi show - she insists she would rather be unemployed than return to the small screen.Anderson tells PageSix, "My God, I don't even watch television. I don't like television. I never have liked it. The whole concept of sitting down in front of a TV feels like one of the things that's destroying society, as far as I'm concerned."Meanwhile in related news Anderson regrets spending nine years in popular TV series The X-Files, admitting it was the money that kept her going.The star says she "had no choice" but to sign for a long stint on the show, although she has agreed to reprise the role of Agent Dana Scully in the sequel of the film adaptation of the sci-fi series.She says, "I couldn't get out of it. I didn't have a choice. Back then I was all innocent and I thought, 'Wow! This sounds wonderful' but then when I started, I realised I'd be in a Canadian wood working 16 hours a day for nine months a year. And the reason I stayed so long was because the only way I could get more money was to commit myself to doing it for another couple of years."Anderson compares the on-set atmosphere as a "disgusting microcosm", adding, "To begin with it was alright, but gradually it all became incredibly gossipy and incestuous."

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