Hello and welcome to yet another very, very, very special Empire podcast.

This is a big interview podcast with the one and only Jillian Anderson, needless to say

there is plenty on the files marked X as well as, well, let's just see Simon Pegg going

on a pub quiz with her and her ongoing email relationship with the man she calls Double D.

So, without any further ado, sit back, relax and prepare to enjoy nearly an hour's worth

of Jillian Anderson being Frank and very, very funny. The people interviewing Jillian here are James

Dyer and Nick DeSemilin. Enjoy. And so, welcome to the Empire podcast, Jillian Anderson, Jillian,

welcome. Thank you, thank you for having me. And since we...

Is that my gum out, you know? Yes, that's, I noticed that. That's very

considered. Not quite the root assault.

Close. In lieu of any better way to start the podcast, I'm going to say, you're an

Ardman fan, aren't you? What does that mean? No way.

Well, listen, Grommit. Well, listen, Grommit. What, why do I...?

Ardman animation, they're who make... Oh, I am, they're so funny, because I just,

my, one of my sons was wearing the, who was it? It was, was wearing a Sean the Sheep T-shirt

over the weekend, and my daughter, who's now 18, said, but isn't that mine?

And I said, yes, he grown out of it. Can it not be his?

Because you've been quoted as saying that the wrong trousers is one of your, one of your favourite films.

Yes, well, yes, it was for a long time, I think, that definitely the wrong trousers,

but I recently did something for MPR, where they asked for me to talk intellectually about one

of my favourite films of all times, that I've seen over a hundred times, and I was going through

the list of all the, you know, fancy, dancing world films that I've seen over the years, and came

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