Steve Wright’s People Show
June 3rd, 1995
The REG Files
Strangely enough, I was pointed to this by Marty, who found it in an X-Files site. It’s a transcript of Gillian Andersons appearance on Steve Wright’s People Show (BBC1) at 7:20pm on June 3rd, 1995. To read the full transcript, go here, but I’ve snipped out the bits concerning REG who it seems was a guest on the same show. (Steve Wright used to be a BBC Radio 1 DJ and now hosts his own show which is in its second season.)
STEVE WRIGHT: Time now to welcome one of TV’s coolest women. Take a look at this.
(Clip of Scully in action.)
SW: Oh, yeah! From TV’s X-Files here’s Gillian Anderson!
(Camera cuts to GA who is lying down on a couch/sofa type thing. She gets up, goes down the stairs, and holding onto the rails she jumps down the bottom couple of steps. She embraces Steve Wright, then shakes hands with Nigel Benn, a British middleweight boxer, and Richard E. Grant, an English actor, who are still sitting on the interviewee’s sofa from earlier in the show. She is wearing a black pin-stripe suit and black boots and has her hair in a pony tail.)
SW: Have a seat.
GILLIAN ANDERSON: Thank you.
<snip>
SW (turning to Grant and Benn): Do you guys watch the X-Files?
RICHARD E. GRANT: Yes.
SW: You enjoy it?
REG: I love it.
SW: Is this something you can see yourself appearing in?
REG: Uh…
SW: ‘Cause you’re weird enough, aren’t you?
(Grant turns to Benn, Benn laughs.)
REG (to GA): Do you think I’m weird enough for the X-Files?
GA: Well I thought the “baby poo” thing [story told earlier by REG] was a little… (wiggles her hand).
SW: With all due respect, you do have that weird look about you.
(Grant turns to audience with a sad face. Audience goes “Aaahh!”)
So there you have it. Our REG is weird! Hmpf! Hehe…
If anyone saw this show, or have any more info, then let me know. Thanks.
