"I don't wear a bra anymore, so I don't care if my breasts will sag to my navel, because it's so uncomfortable to wear that thing."
Last week, when 53-year-old Hollywood actress Gillian Anderson uttered the words, there was a commotion on social media.
In the live broadcast, a fan wanted Anderson to say what he was wearing during the epidemic quarantine, so there was a big guy above.
She said she no longer wears a bra and wears sweatpants and matching hoodies every day if she can.
But you can imagine how much controversy this somewhat counter-mainstream statement has attracted, some people say that this is too terrible, some people feel that the chest must be restrained and controlled, some people laugh at her and say that no one will be interested in the old lady's chest...
But many more have chosen to side with Anderson and support her choice.
Then again, such a queen's behavior is quite in line with Anderson's personality in the TV series "Sex Education". She plays the male protagonist's mother, Jean, who is a professional sex therapist in the play.
It is also the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher in "The Crown", the highly restored shape plus the performance of the gods, many viewers said that Anderson played this role alive.
She often speaks wisely in "Sex Education", like a warm confidant big sister.
It will also give full play to the professional level and help people solve sexual problems.
Teach people to say "no".
(Screenshot of the above episode from Douban)
The problem of being shy about ordinary people is always open and frank, and sometimes even her son will feel embarrassed because of her unabashedness.
She seems to be free to do whatever she wants, and her appearance of not being bound by any rules has poked too many points in the audience, and there are countless fans.
Andreessen in private is exactly such a transparent look.
Others say that the plot arrangement of her mother dating a young policeman is too bold. She said that women in their forties and fifties can also launch offensives against young men and have sex, and she was shocked that this was a bold thing in the eyes of others.
Momentary icon, lifetime icon, queen behavior never stops.
Anderson's life is indeed worth saying well
Born in Chicago in 1968, Anderson is the eldest daughter of the family, and has a younger sister and a younger brother.
Mom was a computer analyst and dad worked on film distribution, and because of her parents, she moved from childhood, first to Puerto Rico and then to London, where she lived for several years.
Anderson also fell in love with London at that time, but she did not get along well with her peers, and her English accent was ridiculed by many people because she grew up in an American family.
In order to get rid of this embarrassing situation, she insisted on training English and wanted to make her accent more "British".
However, at the age of 11, the family moved back to the United States and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Anderson's hard-won English voice was not used at all, and not only that, but he was also ridiculed by another wave of accents from his American classmates.
I don't know if it was for this reason that she started a rebellious adolescent career.
For Anderson, this period meant a punk style, listening to all kinds of heavy metal music, dyeing his hair colorful, playing nose rings, and shaving the hair on both sides of his head.
Her friends were all addicts, so she was drugged herself, and she recovered after being sent to treatment at the age of 14.
Such a person will always encounter strange eyes, and the school classmates will give Anderson a lot of nicknames to satirize her, what "the person most likely to be arrested" and so on.
By the way, this nickname actually came true, and she was arrested by the police for pouring glue into the lock of the school with her friends and spent the night in prison. As punishment, Anderson wiped the floor for a week at a local youth organization.
Although she was interested in science as a child and dreamed of becoming an archaeologist or marine biologist, Anderson's academic performance was very average, and she was a problem student in the eyes of her teacher.
If she hadn't met an act, she would have lived this life.
Her acting talent was on display as a teenager, when her teacher arranged for her to perform the play "Romeo and Juliet", when Anderson did not know much about Shakespeare and did not have much contact with acting, but she did it effortlessly and stunned her parents.
After that, Anderson also slowly became interested in acting, not only performing in school, but also on the stage of the community, and also running to the theater to work as an intern, and attending the drama school in college.
After graduation, she went to New York to find opportunities to get ahead, and in order to support herself, she worked as a waitress at three restaurants, auditioning while working.
The first thing that made Anderson stand out was the stage play "Absent Friends", the original heroine left because she got offers from other film crews, so she temporarily took over this role, and she did not expect to win the Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer, when Anderson was only about a year after graduating from college.
But then she was not so lucky, she kept auditioning and was rejected, the roles she received were not satisfactory, and only the performance in the thriller "The turning" made a little splash.
Anderson played a fairly important role, showing his naked back in front of the camera, on a larger scale. Although the film was very controversial, Anderson's performance was unanimously praised by the audience, saying that she was the only one in the whole crew who was really acting.
But this did not make Anderson's career soar, and what awaited her was an endless period of unemployment.
Rejected and afraid, although she had vowed never to act in TV dramas, she was forced by life to slowly start dabbling in the field of TV dramas, and acted in "Class of '96" in the form of cameos.
It was also because of this cameo that Anderson received the script for the role that changed his life - Dana Scully in "The X-Files".
Dana Scully is the heroine, a highly intelligent FBI agent with a medical education, and "The X-Files" later became a global sci-fi series.
Back in the beginning, 24-year-old Anderson read the script and decided to audition because it was the first time in a long time that a script had written a strong, independent, intelligent woman as the protagonist.
At that time, the male protagonist had already decided to be played by David Duchonny, and the filmmakers had no other ideas about the female protagonist, just wanted to find a sexy big-breasted girl to pair with the male protagonist.
Anderson was a little far from what they thought was the standard, so he quickly dismissed her.
But Chris Carter, the writer and producer of The X-Files, insisted that she play Dana Scully because Anderson was the heroine he thought of, smart and independent.
The producer's insistence proved to be correct, Anderson later succeeded in winning the role, and her role of Dana Scully also injected a new force into the industry, no longer sexy, no longer dependent on men, but an independent individual.
The broadcast of the tv series triggered the "Scully effect" because the heroine was a doctor and a federal agency agent, which inspired many young women to pursue careers related to science, medicine and law, and promoted the increase in the number of women in these fields.
To this day, the "Scully effect" remains one of the subjects of academic research.
Anderson has also won numerous awards for her outstanding performance in the play, emmy awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and is the first actress to win all three awards at the same time.
With such a strong response, it is not difficult to see how high the ratings of the series of TV series are and how profitable they are.
The X-Files lasted nearly nine years, producing nine seasons of the series and two films, and in 2015 FOX announced the restart of the project, intending to shoot a miniseries.
Anderson became popular with this play, but even actresses who were so famous at the time had to fight for inequality in the workplace.
When the "X-Files" hero and heroine began filming this popular drama in 1993, Anderson was even asked not to walk side by side with the male protagonist, but to stand behind him.
The difference between salaries is even greater, and Anderson has been paid about half of the man for several seasons.
The same is the starring actor, the effort is almost the same, the fame of the two after the TV broadcast is not much worse, why is the salary difference so large?
In order to fight for what she deserves, she spent three years constantly asking the studio for a salary increase until she got the same salary as the male owner, and finally she did it.
But when The X-Files rebooted years later, she had to defend her rights again. The filmmaker's thief did not change his heart, wanted to find her to continue filming, but only wanted to pay half of the male partner's money, of course, she did not accept. But Anderson's position in the show is so important that there would be no Dana Scully without her, so the studio finally gave in and gave her the same remuneration as the male protagonist.
In Hollywood, where "equal pay for men and women for equal work" is still not optimistic, Anderson can be described as one of the brave pioneers, she does not tolerate, does not give in, and finally gets what she wants.
After the end of "The X-Files", Anderson played more roles, working with Uncle Mai in "Hannibal" to play Thebedia Du Maurier, a psychiatrist with a high IQ.
Participated in the classic drama adaptation of the film "Desire StreetCar", playing a middle-aged aristocratic woman with a dark past.
Everyone is most familiar with the mother in "Sex Education".
And Mrs. Thatcher in "The Crown", the degree of the only magic directly made netizens clap their hands.
Now she is a single rich woman with three children.
Right daughter Piper
Group photo with two sons, Oscar and Felix
Anderson has been steady and steady on this road, and strives to be both powerful. There have been fire works, and continue to dig up good scripts, more than half a hundred years old but let more and more audiences know her.
She is a rebellious beauty and an actress who dares to fight for herself. Fight for equal pay for equal work, for freedom not to wear a bra...
The first half of Anderson's life is really synonymous with power
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