Gillian Anderson might have been ok in “The X-Files”, but she keeps on getting cast in parts that are over her head.
Her interpretation of Miss Haversham in the 2011 version of Great Expectations was awful. She couldn’t even bring herself to wear one shoe, which is a very important part of the character. She was merely wispy.
She was in WAY over her head for “The House of Mirth”.
I am afraid to see her in “Bleak House”, she is no Diana Rigg, Diana Rigg has screen presence. Gillian Anderson is distracting.
Saw her in a BBC mini-series of War and Peace. She wasn’t bad there as snooty Russian upper-class twit.