Speaking on this week's episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, Gillian Anderson explained to the host about how she was offered half as much money as her male co-star David Duchovny to get back on board for the show's revival series.
Gillian Anderson
She said of receiving a call about the new series: "We got the phone call with what the offer is, we knew what David's offer was this time around and it was twice as much as my offer was. Which is stupid really because I'm going to find out and worked really hard for parity back then and was kind of shocked."
Clarifying she meant the relaunch, Gillian told Jonathan: "Last year. Yes. I don't know it was silly. So it's always been that David's team does the negotiating and then I just say, [I want what he's having] basically."
Chatting about why she agreed to be a part of the comeback, she said: "They had never talked about it being a series, which we would have said no to. We were trying to get it done as a third film, which they also kept saying no to. It was kind of timing and it was also the fact that we could only do six rather than 22."
Gillian also noted that the network hasn't come to either her or David about continuing on to do more of the show.
"I don't know, it is again all about schedule... It's about whether it matches up. If it matched up and a few other things were in place - You know, we're not getting any younger... All the boxes need to be ticked. You know what I mean."
She also laughed about there being tension "for a long time" on set between her and David: "We've always gotten along and we've been decent friends but we were down each other's throats for so long... We were always together."
Joking they fell out over her hair, she added: "It's so stupid. I can't talk about this without just laughing and laughing, it's just so silly. It takes women a lot longer than it takes men because, it's very damp in Vancouver and so my hair gets frizzy so we shoot in the rain all the time and then I'm a drowned rat and then we have to wait around for them to blowdry it and everything and so there's a lot of waiting because of me. It didn't encourage our [friendship] but I got it, I understood... We were too much together but we're incredibly friendly now."
Returning to The Fall for a new series later this year, Gillian also spoke about working with Jamie Dornan.
"I was involved in the casting on that and we looked at a lot of actors and there were some fantastic auditions and Jamie's just was very, very clear that he really stood out and I fought very hard for him to get the role."
The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday March 12 at 9.30pm on ITV.