Responding to a recent report that claims Gillian was busier shooting fillers into her face than shooting The X-Files reboot, currently playing on Network Ten, the mum-of-three went on the counter-attack.
“If it weren’t so sad, this bollocks would have made my day,” Gillian, 47, writes in a Facebook post.
She later posted this photo below from a recent event, along with the caption, “This is how I really look! #agingwithoutshame.”
It’s not the first time the outspoken actress has let her feelings be known about ageing in Hollywood.
The War and Peace star also addressed female body image and ageing in a recent interview with The Edit magazine.
“I like women a lot, and I champion them,” she tells the magazine. “I tell people when they are beautiful. I tell other actresses when I think their work is amazing.”
She continues: “I’m not perfect, you know? I’ve got flabby thighs, I’m ageing and I’m 5’3. I talk about my failing in contemporary society in terms of gyms or food or whatever. I think there’s a polite appreciation that I’m honest.”
The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress is all about telling it like it is, having recently called out her X-Files producers for offering her half of what David Duchovny was getting for a top-billed lead role.
While she was eventually able to negotiate a fairer salary, she seized the opportunity to speak out about the realities of unequal pay.
“I think it’s important that it gets heard and voiced.”
Age is certainly no barrier to Gillian’s workload of late.
Tickets are selling fast for her American production of stage play A Streetcar Named Desire, and she’s also in negotiations to star in a new big-screen spy thriller Official Secrets opposite Harrison Ford.
