Introduction | 3min snip from How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Hello and welcome to How to Fail
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with Elizabeth Day, the podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger, because learning how to fail in life actually means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure. At high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Gillian Anderson was voted by her classmates as most likely to be arrested. And although she did actually get arrested on graduation night for trying to glue the locks on the school doors, she was not destined for a life of petty
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misdemeanor. Unless
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or is the fact to
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be revealed. Not publicly
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anyway. Instead, Anderson went on to become one of the greatest actors of her generation. Her 30-plus year career has taken her from playing FBI special agent Scully in the X-Files to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the crown. She's been a dogged detective in the fall and an unembarrassable sex therapist in the show Sex Education. On stage, she has embodied everyone from Blanche Dubois in a streetcar named Desire to Margot Channing in All About Eve. It's almost easier to list the roles she hasn't played than the one she has. Her work has earned her two Emmys, two Golden Globes, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She's also an honorary OBE, having spent many of her childhood years in the UK, which is where she now lives. But today, because of the actors and writers strike, it is her world beyond acting that we'll be speaking about. Earlier this year, Anderson announced two projects. One was G-Spot, the sourcely named SoftDrinks company which makes wellness beverages. The author was a project, Dea Gillian, where she's asking women to write her letters about their sexual fantasies that will later be turned into a book. Because, Anderson says, when we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Gillian Anderson, welcome to How to
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Fail. Thank you.

S18, Ep7 Gillian Anderson on sex, body image and rebellion

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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