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Domenica 20 luglio 2008 ore 21.00: “Scherzi del cuore” (1998) un film di Willard Carroll con Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson e Anthony Edwards. La pellicola è inserita nel ciclo “Sguardi d’autore”, dedicato ai grandi registi di fama internazionale. 

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Nella play di Henrik Ibsen, Nora, il personaggio principale dell'opera, decide di abbandonare il marito, la sua casa e i suoi figli per trovare sè stessa. Realizza che deve andarsene quando si confronta con un problema nella relazione col marito, che continua a trattarla come una bambola, continuando il trattamento infantile che ha sempre ricevuto lei stessa dal padre prima.
La donna trova la forza di andarsene con la sua amica d'infanzia Kristine, che ha avuto una vita difficile, ed ha la saggezza di guidarla e supportarla. Nora abbandona il ruolo della bambola moglie e figlia che ha sempre giocato per tutta la sua vita, e diventa un'adulta indipendente che pensa con la propria testa, quando realizza che il mondo è diverso da come lo aveva sempre immaginato, e che lei stessa non è quella che pensava di essere.

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Gillian's new role is one for the X Files

Last updated at 11:33 PM on 26th June 2008

Gillian Anderson

A capacity to shock: Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson will take on one of the most controversial roles an actress can play on the stage.

She will star as Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, which opens at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in Covent Garden next spring.

A new version of the drama has been written by Zinnie Harris and will be directed by Kfir Yefet. More than a century after Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House, where Nora famously, walks out on her husband and children, that defiant act still has the capacity to shock.

'How does a woman... how can a woman... abandon her children like that?' Gillian wondered, when we discussed A Doll's House on Wednesday in London.

The actress, who has two children and is pregnant with her third, added: 'To some of us, it just feels absolutely shocking. I couldn't imagine it, and yet it happens all the time for one reason or another.'

And in between preparing for A Doll's House and her new baby, Gillian is waiting for the release, in August, of X Files: I Want To Believe, a big-screen movie in which, after a break of several years, she reprises her role as agent Dana Scully. 'They've all matured, which is such a funny word to use because of course we've matured  -  we're ten years older in X Files, and look it,' she said.

The part of Scully made her a star, but she has more than proved her acting abilities in other work, particularly the film House Of Mirth and her spectacular performance as Lady Dedlock in the award-winning BBC TV serial of Bleak House.

But she likes to return to the stage even though, she says, it terrifies her. 'Every time I put up my hand (to go on stage again), it's the other arm trying to pull my hand down,' she said, laughing. 'It's like: "What do you think you're doing?" But it's so rewarding when I do theatre.'

Certainly not in monetary terms, and not at the Donmar, where she'll be on the Equity union minimum of around ?400-?500 a week. 'I still choose to get involved in theatre. It's important enough to me in my life, that I think I'd choose it regardless of whether I could feed my children,' she joked.

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Do you know what you're doing next?

GA: I do, yeah. I'm doing a film in South Africa called The Smell of Apples. It takes place in the '70s during apartheid. It's a lovely film based on a book.

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