Interviews mit Chris und Gillian (-englisch-)

Im Folgenden könnt ihr euch die Interviews mit Gillian und Chris Carter aus der aktuellen Dreamwatch im englischen Original durchlesen. Gillian Dreamwatch interview August 2002 DW: What is it like coming to the end of the show? GA: Don't get me started! I don't know why, but I woke up feeling so emotional today so if I cry ignore me - but yeah, it's good, I guess. This is so surreal. I swear to God, it's only started to hit me over the past couple of days. It feels like nine years was so short ... I mean, while we were in the middle of it I felt that it would never end and now all of a sudden it just feels unfathomable. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time but now it's here, I am fully aware of the importance that The X-Files had in my life. I am grateful for every aspect of it. DW: So in a way, you don't want it to end? GA:I think it's good that it's finishing. I think it's good for everybody. Everybody has put in such a huge effort over the years in really trying to keep the quality of the show up and to continue with it's integrity as much as it can. There's a time for everything to end. I think this is the right time Everybody in their own way is excited about moving on to other things, but that doesn't mean both things can't co-exist. One can be sad and in the process of mourning and at the same time be excited and hopeful for the future. DW: What will you miss the most? GAThe whole thing: the whole living, breathing being that it is, I think. There's certain trees within that forest that I can individualise, like missing co-executive producer/director Kim Manners and Chris (Carter, series creator) and David (Duchovny, Mulder) and the crew, and I'll miss just being on set. DW: Will you miss the craziness of the fans? GA:I haven't been feeling the craziness of it lately. I think we're pretty much well protected from the craziness. It just feels like there's another entity out there that's kind of breathing with the same heartbeat as us .. They support us. I don't experience a lot of craziness. We don't get a lot of visitors to the set - well, once in a while we do and people burst into tears and stuff - but the crazy period of time was earlier on. I didn't even realise it was crazy before it stopped being crazy, then I thought "Oh God that was crazy". (laughs) DW: You must have people approaching you wherever you go? GAYeah, but it's not on the same level as other people. I'm not Gwyneth Paltrow, where you can't sit in a restaurant without the entire restaurant stopping and trying to listen to your conversation! I'm blessed in that way. I don't have that pressure in my life. I live a very quiet, private life and every once in a while it feels abruptly jarred in some way by somebody who's extra enthusiastic, but not too often. DW: When was the last time that happened? GA:I just had a crazy experience in San Francisco last year, where a woman in the middle of the street asked if she could have my autograph. She was really loud and excited and I said "OK"and she said "Do you have a pen?" I said "No, I don't have a pen, you're supposed to bring the pen ...." She said "Well you don't have to be rude about it" and called me a bitch and walked away. That was one of those things where I went, "What?" DW: How do you feel about the evolution of the show and how Scully's story has become such a focus since Mulder disappeared? GA:It happened by necessity because of the fact that David was going to be leaving. I think that for the first year he was gone the writers did a very good job of keeping him in the public conciousness, even though he wasn't around. It's remarkable how if somebody is talked about it feels as if they're present, even though they're not. The show didn't start out as Mulder's quest, but was primarily about his character and his genius and his revelation. Scully's job was to kind of help solidify that in the questions that she would answer. They created a whole but it was 70/30 then 60/40 and finally 50/50. Unfortunately I'm not talking financially! (laughs) DW: Is it interesting to watch Scully change as parenthood becomes a priority in her life? GA:I don't know about this whole baby thing. It certainly adds a level of complication to the filming and I think it's added an interesting storyline ... it's also been complicated in how do you involve Scully in the cases that they are investigating without the audience also thinking "Well, where's the baby and why isn't she home with the baby?" If she is with the baby, the fans are going, "Well, we want her out in the field, we don't want her home with the baby." It's a very fine balance that the writers have to play. DW: How important was the chemistry between Mulder and Scully to the success of the show? GA: I'm only just realising how essential that was now - now that there is something to miss. It's particular to David and I and I do miss it. I'm glad that he's back so that we can play around with it for a little while longer before the show ends, but it was central and I don't think I ever realised how central it was until the other half of it wasn't there any more. DW: How did you feel about Mulder coming back for the final episodes? Was it always essential for you to tie-up the history of those characters together? GA: I don't think I would have known that until the very end when I would have thought "Well wait a minute, this isn't right." I'm also very glad that the show is completely ending now instead of just me leaving because my contract was up. I have a feeling that even though I would have mourned to a certain degree in saying goodbye, there would have been something left undone because the crew would have been continuing. Even though I was saying goodbye, it wouldn't have been clean. I feel like we have an opportunity now to really tie it up in a whole and constructive, finished and complete way. DW: Do you have a favourite episode that stands out in your mind or a series of episodes you really felt connected to? GA: I felt akin to All Things, which I wrote and directed. I mean it wasn't one of my favourite episodes but the process of it was exhilarating and rewarding. I used to love an episode called Bad Blood, which was a great deal of fun to shoot. I felt it was very smart and funny in the end. I liked the more comedic episodes and then the bigger historical episodes that have more weight and more history to them. DW: You've really grown up on the show in many ways. How different is life now, almost a decade later? GA: The fact of the matter is I grew up during the course of the show. I started when I was 24 and ended at almost 34. That's almost a third of my life. When the show started I was young and naive and impressionable, and I didn't have a clue about the business or anything at that time, but then to grow up and to make mistakes along the way and to experience my life while trying to be somebody other than myself 18 hours a day that's an interesting task. Doing that very publicly has been surreal. DW: Why do you think the show didn't go so well this year in the ratings? GA: I haven't really paid much attention to be honest. I've never paid attention to ratings or anything like that. I haven't really talked to many people who haven't liked it so I haven't had that experience. I just kind of show up and do my work and then go home and be with my daughter. That's really about it. DW: How do you feel about the direction your character has taken? GA: From the very beginning I've just kind of gone along with whatever they've put in front of me. I've focused my energy in other ways in my life and not really got involved in that process. Chris (Carter) has been pretty good from the beginning in trying to figure out exactly what it is that the audience needs, what it is that needs to be told in terms of all the characters. I've just kind of trusted that. First of all, you can't fight Chris and second of all, it just is what it is. It's been a challenge to work with babies. It's been an interesting sideline to have to be constantly with a child or putting a child into the crib scene after scene. Then there's been some great stuff I wouldn't have done if I were more mobile. It's been great for the other characters too, to have me out of the way and be able to just kind of do their thing. DW: How was it to be directed by David again? GA: David's directed a couple of episodes before and it's good to have him back. He's very relaxed as a director and he knows what he wants and he creates a good atmosphere on set. It's nice to have him back in that capacity before we get back into doing scenes together. I think it's a nice transition for him, so it's been fun. X-tra! X-tra! Read all about it! Gillian Anderson reveals her future career plans ... "I'm signed on to do a new Michael Weller play in the West End of London called What the Night is For. I've spent quite a bit of time in London actually, so I've kind of made it another home and it feels wonderful. I've also optioned a book I'm hoping to write (as a screenplay) and direct called Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner. It's a beautiful little book, but I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to get to that. I'm looking for different film projects for the summer. I'm doing the play in October and then maybe the second x-files feature will be done after that" Und das mit Chris Carter: DreamWatch -EXIT STRATEGY After nine seasons and more than 200 episodes, series creator Chris Carter says an emotional farewell to The X-Files, the SF TV phenomenon of recent years. Words: Jenny Cooney Carrillo Chris Carter had mixed feelings when he recently sat down to tell dreamwatch about the demise of his drama series, The X Files. The creator and producer of the SF TV phenomenon announced earlier this year that the current ninth season would be the last for the show, but as he talked during a break in filming on the Fox lot in Los Angeles, with David Duchovny (aka Fox Mulder) in the sound stage across the street directing one of the final episodes, he couldn't make up his mind if he was in mourning or celebration. Dreamwatch: Whose decision was it to finally call it day and how was the decision made? Carter: It was mine. I thought about it over the Christmas vacation. We had premiered the show in its ninth season in November and we were up against all kinds of stiff competition. We were counter-programmed very effectively - including our season premiere, which was against Saving Private Ryan - and so our numbers were down. They were respectable numbers and we were still head to head with the competition, but they weren't the numbers that we had been getting in year eight. After six episodes of the show, the ratings had levelled off at a respectable level but they had not come up. I felt that some of the audience had left and I didn't know where they had gone because I thought we were doing good work and I thought that the addition of Annabeth [Gish, Agent Reyes] and Robert [Patrick, Agent Doggett] to the show was a good and effective one. But I didn't want to see any analysis that they were somehow responsible for the lower ratings, so I decided that I would rather call it a day than see someone trash the show, trash them and trash me when I thought we were still doing excellent work. We've really created a new franchise and I thought it was time to go out strong and to look forward to the series of The X Files movies. You sound very disappointed… Well, I created the show, so for me it's been 10 years now; it's been on the air for nearly nine years when we complete this year and it took me a year to get it off the ground, so I've been involved for 200 episodes' worth. So it's something I've been doing for quite a long time and I just thought we were doing such good work this year. And what was the reaction of the cast when you told them? It was very difficult to tell Robert and Annabeth because I think they feel responsible and they're not. They worked hard, they're terrific actors and they gave their everything to it. If there's any blame, it's really on some mysterious X factor. What about the end of the show? How can you wrap it up while keeping enough of a hook to lure viewers in for the movies? You know me well enough to know that I've always got a trick up my sleeve, but we really look to the movies as an opportunity to do stand-alone movies, not mythology movies. It's not like what we had to do with the first movie, which I thought was worthwhile, but it was really a movie where you couldn't have a beginning, middle and end; you could have a beginning and middle, but the end was going to come with the rest of the series so it prevented us from really making it as big and blockbusterish as we might have. So I'm looking forward to just doing what we call stand-alone stories but doing them as a movie franchise. What will David Duchovny's involvement be? He's actually back directing right now. So he's warming his feet by the fire and he'll be back in action as Mulder in [the show's closing two episodes, The Truth]… They're going to air as a two-hour episode, which is something we've never done before. Were you surprised David agreed to return? I wasn't surprised because we've been in contact all year long and any differences that we had seem to have been something we've both gotten past. He and Gillian [Anderson, Scully] are both very anxious to do the movies. We've got to do them one at a time, so I'm only fantasizing about more than one. And so he realized it was important to the future to participate in the present. Do you hope for a happy ending between Scully and Mulder? Yes, we're going to end it in a big way. I mean, we've never known we're ending before. I've had to create provisional endings for the last two seasons not knowing whether or not the show is coming back, but the show has always done so well with its ratings and I guess it was always irreplaceable as far as Fox was concerned [that it was renewed]… This is the real ending, so, as you can imagine, we're trying to give it all we've got. Will you tie up a lot of the loose ends? Will the mythology be resolved so that the movie can be a stand-alone? Yes, but I'm not saying we're going to answer every single question because there's just too many questions to answer. But many of the questions we don't answer specifically will be resolved by a lot of the bigger threads being tied up. Can you give us an example? No! [Laughs] But I will say that we're really trying to make [The Truth] a reward to people who've watched The X Files for the last nine years. Why do you think The X Files work so well all over the world? Because people are scared of the same things. I think 'scared' travels across borders very well. I want to knock some wood right now because I'm very fortunate for having created something that everyone seems to like. And I get to write what I'm interested in and people like it, so it's one of those miracles. Which episodes have you been most pleased with in season nine and why? I've been happy with the whole year and I'm trying to think of a specific episode that stands out for me and the one I'm thinking of right now is [Improbable], which is also the Burt Reynolds one. I have to say that I think that's going to be a standout because it does what the best X-Files episodes do which is to expand the storytelling possibilities of the show, meaning that I'm telling a story that we've never told before. And I think that's the beauty of the show. If you were asking why I seem disappointed [about the X Files' demise], it's because the show's format and storytelling structure was so incredibly elastic. It was a comedy, it was an intense drama, it was a melodrama, it was a horror show, it was a thriller. It could be so many different things and so that's what I'll miss. How important do you think the Mulder and Scully partnership has been to the show's success? It is The X Files. It was The X Files for eight years so I think you can't discount it. What sort of reactions have there been from fans about the series ending? Do they protest? Online, people are sorry to see it go now and that's kind of the way I hoped they'd look at it; that it was something they enjoyed and now of course they'll be able to enjoy it for a good long while in [US TV] syndication. So it's not like it's going away really, it's just going away 'originally'. How quickly can we expect to see a new X Files movie? It depends on how long I take for my vacation. I hope to write it over the summer and I hope to prep it over the fall and spring and to shoot it maybe late spring and summer. So I think you would end up seeing it in 2004. Do you know the story in your head already? I have rough ideas and I'm sort of deciding what to do. Frank Spotnitz and I will just sit down one day and we will throw out a lot of things and put in a lot of things. It's a process rather than an idea that is in my head. It sort of takes shape. How aware are you of the impact the show has had over the nine years? It gave birth to a whole new genre… As far as what it's done on television, when I watch shows now, particularly shows that are FBI shows, CIA shows, espionage shows, even CSI - you see a lot of Millennium in CSI - I see that our attention to detail, our lighting, our production design, all the things that go into making these little movies we make each week I think have affected the standard of good television. How important was it to get David back? Very important. I mean, it was important for the series because you want to end it in a sort of symmetrical way, ending where we began in a way. And it's important I think to the movie franchise. Are the Lone Gunmen going to feature more towards the end of the show? Yes, the Lone Gunmen feature in the series in a very interesting way and you can all look forward to it. Do you know who the father of Scully's baby is? I think everyone kind of knows now who the father is because we've sort of said it's Mulder. But still, Scully was barren, so how does a barren woman give birth to a child regardless of who the father is? I think that it's pretty clear now that there was some hanky panky… The Truth! Chris Carter spills the beans on… Robert Patrick (Agent John Doggett): "I always had Robert in mind to play Agent Doggett, but initially he was attached to another project. But I have a hard time taking no for an answer and I knew I wanted to work with him, so I was determined to make it happen and eventually I did. He was perfect for the character we wrote." Gillian Anderson (Agent Dana Scully): "Gillian has been a dream to work with. I just finished directing an episode and she called me up at the end and thanked me for the work and said it was a joy." David Duchovny and 'that' lawsuit: "We've had several meals at several different times since the settlement of the suit and since we've gone back to work. I still blame vertical integration as the big problem and this is the beginning of something that you are going to see a lot more because what happens is that when the buyer and the seller are the same person, it pits everybody against everybody and it's not good for working relationships. But I think we've buried the hatchet." Harsh Realm's cancellation: "I'm still a little bitter about it, but it's water under the bridge now. The truth is that the guy who I hold responsible for the quick demise of that show has been cancelled himself, so that relieves some of the bad feeling. I actually have an idea about how I may be able to resurrect the show, but I have to be secretive about it, so I'm not going to tell you any more just yet." The Cigarette Smoking Man: "We don't know whether he's dead or not! We left him lying at the bottom of a flight of stairs and he was looking in pretty bad shape, but this is The X-Files." Quelle: havennews