All About Gillian

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Asa Butterfield | On the couch with Gillian Anderson

Asa Butterfield is the star of Netflix smash-hit Sex Education. Who better to interview him than his TV mother Gillian Anderson?

ASA BUTTERFIELD HAS lived a career on fast forward.

Aged ten, Butterfield played the lead in 2008 Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Three years later, Martin Scorsese chose Butterfield to front the critically lauded Hugo (11 Oscar nominations; Asa was not yet 14).

And then there’s the small matter of Sex Education, the Netflix megahit – more than 40 million watched the first season within a month of its release – that has triggered countless think pieces and turned Butterfield into a household name around the world. Not bad going for a man who turns 25 next April.

Who do you send to interview a prodigy? How about an icon? Gillian Anderson needs minimal introduction. Her glittering résumé includes The X-Files, The Crown, The Fall – and Sex Education, in which she plays the sex therapist mother of Butterfield’s Otis.

Their frank and freewheeling conversation covers everything from awkward scenes to video games to anime. You’ll laugh and learn in equal measure. It’s a true education.

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Birthday Girl 🎁🎂🎉♥️

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In the latest episode of "In My Lady…", actress Gillian Anderson puts her 'Lady Dior' carrying capacities to the test, playfully unpacking emergency chocolate, silk eye masks, dental floss and even a tape measure, revealing her DIY instincts.

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The Crown creator and writer Peter Morgan joins stars Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Josh O'Connor, Gillian Anderson and Emma Corrin along with moderator Edith Bowman to discuss the fourth season of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama series, including the introduction of two iconic historical figures: Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana.

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This face tho

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Gillian Anderson -  Golden Globes 2021

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via Josh O’Connor’s Instagram Stories

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What is one piece of advice that you would give your younger self?

Today more than ever, so many young women really, really struggle with self-esteem. The minute we start owning everything about ourselves and accepting we are who we are, we are how we are, and loving ourselves for what we are exactly as we are, it’s at that moment that we start to radiate that. I’ve known so many people through the years who, whether it’s sass or charisma or personality, you’re drawn to them; you’re drawn to something about them as a whole human being, and it’s got nothing to do with their body shape or whether they are traditionally beautiful, you’re just drawn to that person because they own who they are and they’re OK with who they are. You can’t make that shit up, and it takes work; it takes work to find a way to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but the dividends of that, as hard as it can be, are exponential. That’s what I would tell my younger self: Do that work. Get there as soon as you can, because it can only brighten your life and make your experience be less self-obsessed and more confident so that you’re worrying less about you and start to be mindful of other people. There are so many different ways that it can reward you other than just not feeling like a piece of shit every day.