13 Gutting Celebrity Confessions About How Terrible Hollywood And Being Famous Actually Are

Back in the 1990s, Gillian fought hard for equal pay with her The X-Files co-star David Duchovny. However, years later, she found herself fighting the same battle again after she was offered half of David’s wage for the 2016 revival series. “Especially in this climate of women talking about the reality of [unequal pay] in this business, I think it’s important that it [the pay gap] gets heard and voiced,” she told The Daily Beast. “It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly. 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.’ And then it happened again! I don’t even know what to say about it,” she added.