Pam Could’ve Been Hangin’ With Mulder

It’s very hard to believe now that Gillian Anderson practically owns the Agent Scully role, but that part was supposed to go to Pamela Anderson. X-Files fans would definitely be a whole different market right now if that had happened. Gillian recently told press that she wasn’t the first choice for X-Files producers. The show’s execs actually approached Pamela Anderson for the role first. “They were looking for someone bustier, taller, leggier than me. They couldn’t fathom how David and me could equal success. At the beginning, nobody trusted that I could do anything. I had no body of work behind me at all, and, certainly Fox felt very strongly that I wasn’t the right person for the job.” Well, we all know how well she turned out in the show (the Emmy and Golden Globe awards are testaments). As for Pam, her career would have definitely taken a different route if she accepted the Dana Scully role, but I’m sure she’s not losing any sleep over it these days.

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