I exhausted part of my "15 minutes-of-fame" quota by walking down a flight of steps dressed in business attire on Howe Street in downtown Vancouver during the filming of the "Avatar" episode, shot in March 1996. One of the 3 pedestrian cameos literally took what seemed like 10 takes - a simple scene requiring ~6 of us to amble in various directions while Mulder and Scully walked and talked down the steps to their car - a 5 second scene in real time. 30 munutes later after the 8th take a perturbed Fox sarcastically bellowed "Action?!" to the film crew. My role was to wait behind the two stars, wait 5 seconds, then navigate the steps en route to the sidewalk. My first sighting of Gillian Anderson earlier that day at 9 a.m. was quite a shocker. She's very attractive from the living room, however my first impression of the redhead in person was less than stunning, as she appeared on set with a cigarette in one hand and a LARGE Starbucks coffee in the other...v e r y sexy! All and all it was worth the ~120 greenbacks for a day's "work" of primarily eating pastries with 20 other extras watching TV in a hotel room awaiting the next shoot. Long Live Hollywood North!