#doing lunch

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

Do you think of your work as being in the tradition of Samuel Beckett or are you more of a Gillian Anderson? I didn’t read Gillian’s book. We just had breakfast a few days ago, and she didn’t even mention that she had one. I didn’t know.

David Duchovny, NY Times, Jan 30, 2015 (x)

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

Have you kept contact with David in those years?

GA: Erm... We emailed, and we had an occasional coffee.

Humo (Flemish magazine), July 2008

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

Last year, when Anderson and co-star David Duchovny reunited for a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” interview, they ignited an Internet firestorm, bantering about the dating rumors that have plagued the pair for years thanks to their overabundance of chemistry. While she only recently admitted that the two never got together, she does claim that they’re “much closer on the whole, more appreciative and understanding since [filming ‘The X-Files’].”

“We don’t talk,” she adds. “But every once in a while, we’ll email, every once in a while, we’ll have a meal together. We reminisce. He’ll remember something funny that happened on the show and email me about it.”

Chicago Sun Times, May 23, 2014 (x)

[enchantedlaboratory]

Not to brag or anything, but I am MAD good at eyeing accurate spaghetti noodle proportions. 

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

get out your lab notes

I know this isn't strictly scientific, because it's not based on public information (as I swore to base all of my posts on in the hippocratic oath I took or something), but I was told through a chain of sources I believe to be reliable that David and Gillian went to dinner Saturday night after the Paley event.

I want to share it with you, despite being unable to share the nitty gritty details, because I believe that we all believe in science and I believe that this is necessary for our research.

(er, nitty gritty details about the source -- I don't have ANY nitty gritty details about the event itself, although you bet I wish I did)

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

"[The initial script reading] was more sentimental than our actual reunion [over lunch]. I realized that Gillian and I have changed over the years, but when you start reading these people, they haven’t. They are the same and they feel the same way about each other.”

TV Guide, 2008

[juliafierro]

lunch with my editor

As I typed the subject line above, I felt as if I was doing something naughty, confessing a secret of sorts, which means, I think, it still hasn’t sunk in that:

a) my novel will actually be published (Spring 2014) 

b) a copy of it may or may not be sitting in the St. Martin’s Press office in one of the most iconic NYC buildings of all time (the Flatiron)

c) I have an editor, who I will meet in person for the first time this week

d) that editor is Elizabeth Beier, whose work I’ve admired for years, since she edits all of Tom Perrotta’s novels and TP is one of my favorite novelists, and his novel Little Children was one of the first influences on my own novel about the darkly comic, and sometimes tragic, contemporary parenting experience.

e) I bought a snakeskin belt (the woman at the boutique insisted I get the belt, which I'm pretty sure is faux snake) to match the new black dress I picked out for our first editorial lunch. 

I might even wear heels. 

[fuckyeahdavidgillian]

“A couple times, I’ve looked over and gone, ‘Oh, wow! That’s Mulder standing next to me!’”

She and Duchovny stayed in touch via e-mail since the series ended, but their first chance to catch up in person was a lunch just after the movie was becoming a reality. “It was the first time I’d seen David in ages,” she recalls. “It’s emotional. We have a lot of history. I spent more time with David than I have with most of my friends and some family members.”

TV Guide, 2008