Gillian Anderson's new adventure brings her deeper into sex and slashers

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Set us as preferred Gillian Anderson was once a young person experimenting.“I don’t even know if I was questioning my sexuality but there were a couple of moments during my teen years where I was with women,” Anderson tells me candidly on a recent afternoon at a Beverly Hills hotel.“I haven’t really spoken about that very much.”Though she won’t go into details about those early interactions, she remembers the isolation that plagued her.

“In interviews, I’ve alluded to a relationship that I had later in my post-college life, but not about that particular time and how not even confused, but just alone I felt and how different I felt to the rest of the kids in my high school,” she adds.For some time now, the once and forever “X-Files” star has leaned into episodic television (Netflix, she says, has become a great partner).She earned her second Emmy in 2021 for her blistering turn as polarizing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown.” Yet a major shade of her public persona has become her activism around sex positivity, encouraging women to open up about their needs and wants, both in the bedroom and as individuals in every aspect of their lives.“It seems to still be an important topic for women to hear other women speak about,” she says.

“I have come to love talking about it in the context of women’s empowerment, finding ways to embrace their own integral agency.”Clad in a sleeveless bright green dress, Anderson, 57, radiates an ageless grace, undeniably sophisticated yet unpretentious in her demeanor.Her hair in a braid evokes the look of a figure from ancient Rome.

When speaking in her unmistakable throaty voice, her expressive body language (hand movements often complement her sentences) reveals her assertiveness.That confidence makes it difficult to imagine she ever was...