That exact spot. And it feels so good. She gets a little teary, talking about how full her life is. She spent the previous day shooting multiple takes of a scene in which she gallops a palomino across a prairie.
Anderson included her own anonymous fantasy, but she also writes with some openness under her own name. A huge part of this has always been in the thinking and the feeling, not just the doing. And a fair few of them have taught me about sex and sexuality. Gillian Anderson: I guess my preconceived notion was that based on how far we have come culturally and societally in terms of conversation about sex in a public forum, that somehow that might translate to more of the taboo of fantasy, or sexual proclivities, being diminished.
For me, the deeper conversation is about how much fear and shame we, particularly as women, tend to haveβnot just around this topic. What we choose to share, what we hide.
I'm hoping that this book starts a bigger conversation, particularly amongst women, and in the conversation we start to get to the crux of that shame and fear and guilt and diminishment of self, because when we share it, it weakens. When we can recognize that other people feel the same way, the burden of it and the intensity of it could potentially lessen. I was reading Georgina Lawton in The Guardian, she wrote an article recently about loneliness , particularly in young women between 16 and That demographic is lonelier today on record than year-old people.
The conversation about all of that in an intimate way, I think can be transformative. I was reading it during the DNC , when I was also consuming a lot of political contentβ. Me too! It feels like everything is suddenly out loud. People care less about what the reaction is, what the opinions are about, what the backlash is, in a sense. It feels like there is a platform for everything to be on the table.
