Rosie: Please welcome the talented Gillian Anderson! HI!

Gillian: Hi!

Rosie: How are ya?

Gillian: I'm good. I'm ok.

Rosie: Yeah? How was your flight in?

Gillian: It was good it was actually very relaxing. I don't usually sleep on flights but I slept very well on this one. Although I did, I did have one experience on the plane. I came to a, a mild but shocking realization. I, I um, I got up to go to the bathroom and I got to the door and it said vacant on that little sign so naturally, I open up the door. And there was a man sitting on the toilet. So, I closed the door and I backed up a little bit and I sat down and I'm sitting there like this so I don't have to make eye contact with him when he walk by and it occurs to me, as I'm sitting like this that, um, he was sitting there, on the toilet, with his naked bum pressed up against the toilet seat. And this may seem like a simple realization but, that was the first time that it ever occured to me that, yes, strangers do sit on public toilet seats with their naked bums in the same place I may be sitting moments afterwards.

Gillian: You know a lot of people ask me in interviews if I am as skeptical as the character of Scully is and most of the time I say "No, I'm pretty open-minded and spontaneous. I don't, something doesn't have to be proven to me in order for me to believe it. But here is a definite case where I had to see somebody sitting on a toilet with their naked bum in order to believe that people actually do it.

Gillian: They do.

Rosie: They do it frequently. You know in some places they have that new Jetson thing. It's got like little sirran wrap that goes around the toilet. You ever seen that?

Gillian: Yeah, I never know how to operate those things.

Rosie: The red button, hit the red button.

Gillian: Oh, the red button.

Rosie: Hit the red button and it goes like WHEEEEEE.

Gillian: Missed it.

Rosie: I'll get you one of those for christmas. That'll be good. Installed in your house so other people don't have to put their bum where your bum has been.

Gillian: That'll be a great idea. Right.

Rosie: The show is a smash hit. I met you when you were filming the Pilot of the show in Vancouver.

Gillian: I remember that very very clearly. There's a bar in Vancouver which is in the ground floor of a hotel. Celebrities usually stay at this hotel so there's a lot of celebrities in the bar, and actually, I don't frequent it very often anymore, but I was there when you were shooting up there. And we were sitting at a table with David, my costar, an who...

Gillian: Who you knew from be--fore and we're having a decent conversation and there was these

Rosie: A couple of drinks.

Gillian: I actually don't drink, but you might have been having a couple drinks.

Rosie: I was having a couple of drinks I don't even remember you weren't drinking cause I WAS. Go ahead.

Gillian: There was a table of a few women, like three or four women, sitting near us, they were from Ohio, or Texas or someplace, and they were having their own conversation, but the kept on looking over at our table and looking at you and whispering and then looking at you. And we're in mid conversation at one point, and one of them taps you on the shoulder and says "Were you on Jeopardy?" and you said "Yes" and she was like "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD, SHE WAS ON JEOPARDY." Like not even knowing that you have like, a history or an occupation.

Gillian: And We looked at each other and it was like, our jaws were hitting the table. It was like we were in the twilight zone or something.

Rosie: And they kept saying "remember that category and you knew all about the... and 'member when that other..." yes I do. It was like that Chris Farley character.

Gillian: Like Chris Farley, yes.

Rosie: It was... we had fun up there.

Gillian: Did you?

Rosie: Yeah, I had fun.

Gillian: It's a beautiful city, it really is.

Rosie: It was.

Gillian: It rains a lot, though.

Rosie: It does. You're still shooting up there?

Gillian: We are indeed.

Rosie: In Vancouver?

Gillian: In Vancouver.

Rosie: Yeah, how's your little daughter?

Gillian: Hmm, she's amazing! She just turned two, last week. She'd doing really, really well, she's talking a lot, bossing everybody around.

Rosie: Is she on the set with you?

Gillian: Everyday. I saw Parker running around.

Rosie: Well here there are no freaky scary things like on your set! Like all kinds of freaky, scary, weird things.

Gillian: You know, that's true, she's pretty good about that. She's really good with the freaky scary stuff. She can be walking on set and somebody six feet tall will walk up to her with prosthetic make-up and blood oozing out of their brains, and an eyeball right here, and she'll kinda look at them, she'll be a little cautious and she'll say "Owie!" a gross understatement, but you know, she's on the right track. I was actually going to bring you a decomposed hand that she walks around with. She like holds one end of it, the stump and she shakes peoples hands with it. I'm not sure how proud of that I am.

Gillian: What I'm afraid of is that, years from now she will have all these memories of all these gruesome things happening, and think they actually happened in her life as opposed to...

Rosie: Exactly. She's going to be telling a therapist in 25 years, "My mother used to put fake eyeballs and gooey blood on me and Laugh!"

Gillian: I was actually going to bring you the decomposed hands to put on your little desk collection but, somebody stole it out of our trailer.

Rosie: Really?

Gillian: Well, it's gone. Instead...

Rosie: Look under your daughter's pillow. Could be there.

Gillian: So instead I brought you some fluke worms.

Rosie: Ewwww

Gillian: If anyone's familiar with the show, there was an episode called "The Host" which we on the crew conveniently call "The Pooh Man" because it took place in the sewer a great deal of the time, and there was this man having a shower and he starts to feel nauseaous and he regurgitates this thing and it comes out of his mouth and it goes down into the drain. I brought you a couple.

Gillian: Male and female. They might be hermaphroditic, I don't know. But they could be like, male and female. You could put little lips on one.

Rosie: I think I might leave them there until the prop guy comes and gets them. It was sweet of you, thank you. What is that?

Gillian: It's your very own FBI Special Agent Identification Badge. It has Rosie's face on it. You can sign it.

Rosie: Let me see that! I will be using this if I ever get pulled over by a cop. Yeah, that's right, I am a talk show host, but I'm just doing that for the government. I really work for you people! I'll be doing that.

Gillian: I've got this little note that I have to mention. He wrote: Rosie, you're the funniest, sexiest, and coolest talk show host in television history. You can keep that.

Rosie: Wooo! I love him. Ken, I love you! The X-Files is on at 9 o'clock on Fox on Fridays nights, but it's moving, right?

Gillian: It's moving to Sunday nights on Oct. 27th

Rosie: On Oct. 27, it goes to Sunday nights. The Truth Is Out There, the official guide to the X-Files, pick up the book. Thank you so much for being here.

Gillian: Thank you!

Rosie: We'll be right back...

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