GILLIAN ANDERSON has confirmed she is definitely quitting The X Files.
The 49-year-old actress first said she was leaving her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully over the New Year.
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But speaking to press during a set visit, she reaffirmed her decision to quit the role she has played since 1993, explaining: “It’s time for me to hang up Scully’s hat. It just is.
“I’m finished, and that’s the end of that.
“It is time for me to hang up Scully’s hat. It just is. I arrived at the decision before we did the previous six, but I was really curious.”
The 11th series of the hit TV series has just started to air in America, but Gillian said she had made her decision during the six-part 10th season which was on screens in 2016.
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She continued: “I felt that the previous six was going to be it.
“It was dipping our toe back in again…and getting to play these wonderful characters again.
“I think as [series creator] Chris Carter has said himself, that short stack of episodes felt like we were learning how to walk again and that this season of 10 feels like the pace is up and we’re running.
“I wouldn’t necessarily have been happy if those six were how we said goodbye.
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“There’s lots of things that I want to do in my life and in my career and it’s been an extraordinary opportunity and extraordinary character and I am hugely grateful.”
But The X Files isn’t the only show Gillian has turned her back on, as she also spoke about leaving Starz series American Gods.
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She said: “I’m not doing any more American Gods.
“Bryan [Fuller] and Michael Green aren’t either, as has been announced.”
The two men reportedly quit the series after clashing over the budget for series two with producers Fremantle.
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