Gillian Anderson says she had to fight to earn a fair wage for her return to The X-Files after TV executives initially offered the actress just half of what co-star David Duchovny was banking.
The actress reprises her role as FBI agent Dana Scully, opposite Duchovny's Fox Mulder, for the sci-fi series reboot, and says it took a lot of negotiation to get her pay increased to an acceptable level, despite the recent push for equal wages in Hollywood - a battle she had fought and won in the past.
"It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly," she tells The Daily Beast.
"I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it.
"Even in interviews in the last few years, people have said to me, 'I can't believe that happened, how did you feel about it? That is insane.' And my response always was, 'That was then, this is now."
