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Article: Film: `Even my therapist hates my father now' `The House of Mirth' is new territory for director Terence Davies. Trevor Johnston discovers how `The X-Files' helped him get over his childhood
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Call it celluloid fate, if you will, but Terence Davies was
blissfully unaware that his The Long Day Closes was one of Gillian
Anderson's favourite films before he cast the X-Files star as the
lead in his latest film. In fact, Davies barely knew who she was, had
never even seen her on the box as sceptical investigator Dana Scully,
and initially chose her as the ill-fated heroine in his adaptation of
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth simply on the strength of a
photograph.
"I was trying to find someone who looked like she might have
stepped out from one of John Singer Sargent's society portraits, and
there she was," recalls the 55-year-old writer-director, still best
known for shaping his ...