Gillian Anderson is lastly opening up about why she selected to have a good time her 1997 Emmy Awards win by sharing a kiss along with her “X-Files” co-star David Duchovny earlier than her boyfriend on the time, Rodney Rowland.
Clips of that 27-year-old cultural second have lately recirculated on TikTok and Reddit, amongst different platforms. In it, Anderson will be seen leaning in for a fast kiss from Duchovny, who was seated behind her on the ceremony, after her identify is learn. It was solely after the peck from Duchovny that she leaned in for a smooch from Rowland regardless of him being seated straight subsequent to her.
Although Anderson mistook the 1997 Emmy Awards for that yr’s Golden Globes at first, she nonetheless shared her ideas on the kiss in a TikTok video posted final week.
After joking that Rowland was her “beard,” or pretend romantic companion, the actor urged her causes for kissing Duchovny stemmed from their shut skilled ties.
“I don’t know why I kissed him first,” she mentioned. “I guess because he was on the show with me and we were practically married because we spent more time with each other than we did with our loved ones. We were there to celebrate the series. So yeah, maybe that’s what it was.”
Anderson went to to notice that Rowland wasn’t perturbed by the second.
“Rodney was a great guy,” she mentioned. “I don’t think that it bothered him. He understood.”
Anderson and Duchovny’s real-life relationship has been a sizzling matter amongst “X-Files” followers for years. A lot of it was probably tied to their characters, FBI particular brokers Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, whose platonic bond slowly advanced right into a full-blown romance over the course of the science fiction collection.
Astrid Stawiarz through Getty Pictures
The actors themselves have appeared to relish a few of the consideration, too. In 2015, Duchovny invited Anderson to hitch him onstage in New York to have a good time the discharge of his debut album, “Hell or Highwater.” Upon taking the stage, Anderson greeted Duchovny with a kiss.
Talking to TV Line shortly after the live performance, Duchovny dismissed the renewed hypothesis.
“I see Gillian, I kiss her hello,” he defined. “She’s my friend. If somebody gets a picture of that, if it’s on stage and she comes up to sing with me, I’m going to kiss her hello.”
“You can have Mulder and Scully, and that’s gonna have to be enough,” he added.
